Texas Rangers fire long-time executive Jon Daniels 2 days after Chris Woodward

Texas Rangers are out on a mission to revamp operations after five seasons of dismal performances. Just two days after showing the door to manager Chris Woodward, the Rangers have now gone on to fire Jon Daniels, the team’s Baseball President, who served the club for a period of 17 years.

Daniels had first joined the Rangers’ baseball operations department in 2002. He was made the club’s eighth general manager (GM) in 2005 when he was only 28 years of age. This made him the youngest GM in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. In 2013, he was promoted to the position of President of Baseball operations.

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It was under his stewardship that the Rangers flourished in the MLB, winning two back-to-back AL pennants in 2010 and 2011 and winning the AL West division in 2010, 2011, 2015, and 2016.

Regarding Daniels’ dismissal, the club released a statement that quoted majority owner Ray Davis, “Jon’s accomplishments in his 17 years running our baseball operations department have been numerous. He and his staff put together the best teams in this franchise’s history that resulted in five playoff appearances and two American League pennants between 2010 and 2016”. You can check out the club’s statement right here:

However, Davis also pointed out the club’s poor performance in recent years and said that the club has not won much since 2016, and that a change of “leadership of the baseball operations department will be beneficial going forward”. Notably, the Rangers lost a total of 102 games in 2021 and have not made a single playoff appearance since 2016.

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While the club looks for a new Baseball President, current GM and the club’s executive vice president, Chris Young, will run all operations related to baseball. It remains to be seen what other decisions the club takes on their path to recapture lost glory.