Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager

[dfnowak]

It's all over Twitter that Renteria is the guy.

 

Brett Taylor ‏@BleacherNation 1m

RT @CarrieMuskat #Cubs to announce Renteria as manager on Thursday

Meh

[Boris]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OvmuvHN8HnM/SdFEdBWKNDI/AAAAAAAAA6A/qifnHT9s4sg/s400/heyricky.jpg

[Guest]

Hopefully that [expletive] about the Cubs not running enough isn't true. Also, hopefully he keeps Bosio.

[Sammy Sofa]

http://dimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Ricky-Rubio.png

[ScrubMD]

Hopefully that [expletive] about the Cubs not running enough isn't true. Also, hopefully he keeps Bosio.

 

It's already been reported that Bosio got a 2 year extension.

[bhogg]

So he speaks the Spanish?

[Guest]

This manager search has been really interesting - just reading the interviews and reading different articles about bench coaches and the changing dynamics in the dugout. I guess I've come around to the belief that a manager that literally manages the staff and the team while administering the front office philosophy is the best choice. But a balanced team may be another way to look at a good solution.

 

 

I think I've looked at it the opposite honestly. Other than the idea that Girardi coming could have possibly sped the timetable up a bit, I've had no interest at all. Couldn't even muster getting too pissed with the Red Sox crap. Theo and Co are smart, I don't see any manager as a guy thats worth 5 wins or anything like that(unless you're maybe going Maddon to Dusty or something). Whoever they bring in, I'll be fine with. And its kept me from getting invested in the search.

 

 

well, I was more saying that the process was interesting and reading how the manager position has/is changing. The actual names are pretty meaningless.

 

Not the manager search - the way the FOs influence on the field by hiring appropriate manager and coaches.

 

What do you find so interesting? This same thing has happened many times before. This is boring as hell and largely meaningless.

[Guest]

So he speaks the Spanish?

 

Yeah. He managed Team Mexico in the last WBC.

[nolanwood]

Renteria, huh? This has "blah" written all over it.

[OleMissCub]

ZZZZzzzzzz

[RammyFanny]

So he speaks the Spanish?

In the interviews I watched, he funnily goes from old white guy accent to Ozzie Guillen accent in the blink of an eye. He actually gives a pretty great interview though, it's not hard to see how he could win people over. Definitely the opposite of the Sveum prototype.

[Old Style]

I don't practice Renteria

I ain't got no crystal ball

Well I had a million prospects

But I ruined 'em all

[ScrubMD]

I don't practice Renteria

I ain't got no crystal ball

Well I had a million prospects

But I ruined 'em all

 

Yeah, I saw Keith Law's tweet, too.

[Old Style]

I don't practice Renteria

I ain't got no crystal ball

Well I had a million prospects

But I ruined 'em all

 

Yeah, I saw Keith Law's tweet, too.

I honestly have not. I assume he tweeted something similar?

[Guest]

CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today named Rick Renteria the 53rd manager in franchise history, agreeing to terms on a three-year contract with club options for the 2017 and 2018 campaigns. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

 

The 51-year-old Renteria joins the Cubs with 30 years of professional baseball experience, including the last six years as the bench coach (2011-13) and first base coach (2008-10) with the San Diego Padres. Renteria also brings with him eight years of experience as a minor league manager in the Padres and Marlins farm systems after a 13-year professional playing career that included all or part of five major league campaigns with the Pirates (1986), Mariners (1987-88) and Marlins (1993-94).

 

Prior to the 2013 season, Renteria served as manager for Team Mexico that went 1-2 in the World Baseball Classic in Pool D competition against the United States, Canada and Italy.

 

Upon retiring as a player, Renteria began his professional managerial career in 1998 at Brevard County, the Single-A affiliate for the Marlins, before being named the 1999 Midwest League Manager of the Year after leading Single-A Kane County to a league-best 78-59 record. He spent his final two seasons in the Marlins chain with Double-A Portland before joining the Padres organization in 2003 as a coach with Single-A Lake Elsinore, where he would eventually manage for three seasons from 2004-06.

 

Renteria was promoted to manager of Triple-A Portland in 2007 before joining the Padres major league coaching staff in 2008, serving as first base coach before moving to bench coach in 2011.

 

Originally selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the 1980 draft, Renteria was a career .237 hitter with 20 doubles, four home runs and 41 RBI in 184 major league contests. Renteria primarily played second base and third base in the majors while also seeing some time at shortstop and left field.

 

Renteria is a native of Harbor City, Calif., and resides with his wife, Ilene, in Temecula, Calif. They have four children: sons Joseph, Michael and Anthony and daughter Alexandria

[UMFan83]

is there a press conference?

[gscool89]

is there a press conference?

Probably tomorrow I'm assuming.

[Guest]

Conference call today at 4 pm. No press conference because Renteria can't travel (hip surgery).

[dfnowak]

Sounds like the Renteria hiring was pushed by Jed and Jason per Dan Bernstein at the Score.

[dfnowak]

Sounds like the Renteria hiring was pushed by Jed and Jason per Dan Bernstein at the Score.

Also that it was delayed b/c Theo wanted to talk to Lovullo first.

[jersey cubs fan]

Sounds like the Renteria hiring was pushed by Jed and Jason per Dan Bernstein at the Score.

Also that it was delayed b/c Theo wanted to talk to Lovullo first.

 

Well, the skeptic in me would suggest that is exactly the type of PR messaging you would decide to send out upon announcing the hiring of a guy from an organization those two used to work for, when you missed out on your first and second choices.

[XZero771679666304]

Sounds like the Renteria hiring was pushed by Jed and Jason per Dan Bernstein at the Score.

Also that it was delayed b/c Theo wanted to talk to Lovullo first.

 

Well that much was obvious. If Lovullo wasn't a prime target, this would have been done a long while ago.

 

And it makes sense that Jed and Jason would have been the guys pushing it, if anyone was.

[Guest]

Bernstein said something about Renteria showing up at the PC looking like Stephen Hawking and Jed and Theo struggling to get a cubs jersey on him.

[Brian]

Bernstein said something about Renteria showing up at the PC looking like Stephen Hawking and Jed and Theo struggling to get a cubs jersey on him.

 

Conference call today at 4 pm. No press conference because Renteria can't travel (hip surgery).

[Fro]

http://wgnradio.com/2013/11/07/new-cubs-manager-rick-renteria-joins-kap/

 

"Ricky Renteria" did an impressive job handling Kaplan's dumb questions. I think the meatballs are going to end up liking him.