The former Major Leagues Player, Bret Boonewas hired on Monday as a batting coach of the Texas Rangers, who march last in the American League in scored races.
It will be the first time that Boone, brother of the New York Yankees manager, Aaron Boone, is part of a body of major leagues. Bret Boone joined the Rangers on Tuesday for the start of his three -game series in Boston.
Boone’s hiring occurred one day after Texas dismissed the offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker.
In 14 seasons in the big leagues as a player, Boone was three times All-Star and hit .266 with 252 homers and 1,021 races promoted in 1,780 games from 1992 to 2005 for five teams: Seattle, Cincinnati, Atlanta, San Diego and Minnesota. His only season with the parents was in 2000, when his manager was the current Rangers pilot, Bruce Bochy.
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Texas (17-18) had a day off on Monday after an 8-1 victory at home at the end of his series against Seattle, leader of the west of the American League, Sunday. Even with that explosion, the Rangers were last in the American League with 113 races. They lost 13-1 and 2-1 in the first two games of that series.
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Before the victory over the sailors, the Rangers had scored only 30 races during a streak of 2-9, and half of those races arrived when they ended with a maximum of the 15th season against Oakland on Tuesday. They opened the series against Seattle with defeats of 13-1 and 2-1.
Boone retired as a player while he was with a triple-a columbus branch in the Washington national system in 2008. Since then, he has been involved in several commercial ventures, more recently a Pódcast focused on baseball issues. He was itinerant and cazatalent instructor in the organization of athletics in 2014-15.
Ecker was in his fourth season as the offensive coordinator of the club after being hired on November 1, 2021. He helped the Rangers win their only World Series title in 2023.
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Por STEPHEN HAWKINS / AP
This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
