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Diamondbacks to hire Hale as manager

The Sports Xchange

October 13, 2014 at 11:13 am.

The Arizona Diamondbacks will name Chip Hale as their next manager, according to multiple reports Monday.

Chip Hale is the new D-backs manager. Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports

The Arizona Republic and MLB.com said sources confirmed the USA Today report.

Hale, 49, emerged from a group of nine candidates to replace Kirk Gibson, who was fired as manager last month with three games left in the season.

Hale, 49, has no managerial experience at the major league level, but he did manage Arizona’s Triple-A team for three seasons. He spent the first 10 years of his coaching career in the Diamondbacks’ organization, including being the team’s third base coach under then-manager Bob Melvin.

Most recently, Hale had served as Melvin’s bench coach with the Oakland Athletics (2012-14) and Terry Collins’ third base coach with the New York Mets (2010-11).

The Diamondbacks fired general manager Kevin Towers and Gibson last month following the team’s 64-98 record despite a franchise record $112 million payroll.

The Diamondbacks’ chief baseball officer, Tony La Russa, then hired Dave Stewart as the general manager and De Jon Watson as senior vice president of baseball operations.

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