Source: McKeon, 80, accepts Marlins job

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Jack-McKeon-Florida-Marlins-new-manager-061911

Updated*Jun 20, 2011 1:43 PM ET
Jack McKeon has accepted a job as interim manager with the Florida Marlins, according to a major-league source.

The team will make an official announcement during a 3 p.m. ET news conference at Sun Life Stadium.

McKeon, 80, will become the second-oldest manager in major-league history, according to research by STATS LLC. Connie Mack was 87 during his final season with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1950.

Edwin Rodriguez resigned as the Marlins manager on Sunday, after a 2-19 stretch that dropped the team from two games to 12 1/2 games back in the National League East.

McKeon won the 2003 World Series as the Florida manager and has a 1011-940 record over 15 years in the big leagues. He retired from managing after the 2005 season — or so we thought — and has served as a special assistant to Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria during the past six years.

Team source said Hanley Ramirez was originally in starting lineup tonight, but was taken off because he was late.

Source: MarlinsBigCatch.com



Late to team meeting.hno: Do some still consider this guy to be the face of the franchise?

McKeon doesn't bow to big egos.

I love him.

Man this guy is 80!

How is he even gonna be awake when theyre playing a West Coast game that goes into extra innings. His bodyclock is gonna be thinking its 1-2am. More power to him representing for the old people

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/column/2011/2612101.html

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/column/2011/2612101.html

7/13/2011

McKeon's Hiring Could Start A Stampede

By Tracy Ringolsby

DENVER—Octogenarian Jack McKeon took over as the interim manager in Florida to stabilize a Marlins team that was veering out of control, and specifically to provide a strong hand of guidance for shortstop Hanley Ramirez.

The team then plans to make an impact managerial hire in the offseason to boost the visibility of the Marlins franchise as it moves into its new stadium.

There is every reason to believe Ozzie Guillen could wind up with the job, bringing an end to the uneasy relationship he has with general manager Kenny Williams as manager of the White Sox.

And that could then open up the Windy City job for Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who has had an uneasy truce of his own with the Cardinals ever since Walt Jocketty was forced out as the GM in St. Louis.

And there are plenty of dots that can be connected.

McKeon was the GM of the Padres when they signed a 16-year-old Venezuelan shortstop prospect named Oswaldo Jose Guillen Barrios, who became better known as Ozzie Guillen. And while it was McKeon who traded Guillen in a package to the White Sox for righthander LaMarr Hoyt in December 1984, the two have a bond that has grown over the years—including in 2003 when McKeon took over the Marlins managerial chores the first time, and Guillen was a part of the coaching staff.

The idea that McKeon, at the age of 80, would go back on the field to try to get the Marlins in order before handing it off to his protégé Guillen is not outlandish. And if McKeon can finally get Ramirez to focus on maximizing his abilities, that alone could be a major step for the franchise.

La Russa, meanwhile, finished his playing career in the White Sox organization and began his managerial career in the Sox farm system, getting his first big league opportunity on the South Side when he replaced Don Kessinger for the final two months of the 1980 season. He guided the White Sox to an American League West title in 1983, and remained until being fired 64 games into the 1986 season.

In the process, La Russa and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf developed a friendship that never wavered and continues to foster the expectation that La Russa will finish his managerial career where it began.

Plenty of time remains before decisions for next year have to be made, however, and as easily as dots may be connected today the line can become blurred along the way, particularly in Florida.

That's as apparent as the one-year managerial tour of Joe Girardi, whom Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria worshiped because of Girardi's Yankees ties. He stood behind his hiring of Girardi even when Girardi created an us-against-them-mentality between the people he brought to the Marlins organization and the folks who were there before, both on the field and in the front office.

That all came to an end late in the 2006 season when Loria, seated in his box seat next to the Marlins dugout and screaming at umpires, was dressed down by Girardi in front of the players during the course of the game.

So for all the expectation of a Guillen hiring next fall in Florida, nothing is guaranteed.

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Jack McKeon, 88, has been hired as a senior adviser for the Washington Nationals, sources confirmed to ESPN.
McKeon's son, Kasey, is the Nationals' director of player procurement.
A two-time National League Manager of the Year (1999, 2003), Jack McKeon managed five franchises, including the Marlins. He had a lifetime 1,051-990 record over 16 seasons.
McKeon is not the oldest senior adviser to GM Mike Rizzo. That would be Rizzo's father, Phil, 89, a longtime scout who joined the Nationals in 2009.
The Athletic first reported news of McKeon's hiring.