The St. Louis Cardinals have hired Oliver Marmol as their new manager, replacing Mike Shildt. Marmol, 35, is the Cardinals 51st manager in franchise history. Marmol gets a three-year contract. Marmol is now currently the youngest manager in the MLB. The previously youngest manager in the MLB had been Minnesota Twins manager Roco Baldelli.
Marmol has been a Cardinals coach on the MLB staff since 2017. The first two seasons, Marmol was the first base coach. In 2019, Marmol became the bench coach under Shildt. Marmol did well as bench coach under Shildt, including earning praise from him during the Cardinals 2019 postseason run.
Before joining the Cardinals coaching staff, Marmol managed 5 seasons in the minor leagues. Marmol managed the Johnson City Cardinals in 2012, then managed the State College Spikes from (2013-2014). In those two seasons, the State College Spikes won their division under Marmol. After managing the State College Spikes for 2 seasons, Marmol managed the Palm Beach Cardinals for 2 seasons (2015-2016). In 2015, Marmol was 75-63. That was his best record as a minor league manager.
Overall, Marml managed 493 games and had a record of 268-225 with a .544 winning percentage. Marmol only had 1 losing season during his time as a minor league manager.
Before going into coaching, Marmol was a minor league player for 4 seasons in the Cardinals minors. Marmol wasn't that great of a player.
As a manager in the Cardinals minors, Marmol coached a few current players on their active roster: Jack Flaherty, Dakota Hudson, Alex Reyes, Junior Fernandez, and Edmundo Sosa. To me that could be a good thing that Marmol has managed Reyes before. That's because Reyes didn't have a good end to the season. I think a lot of that was because of fatigue and being in his first full MLB season, which tends to happen with rookies.
Time will tell to see if Marmol can manage in the MLB. On paper, it looks like he can. If he can't, then it could end up being bad for John Mozeliak.
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