ARLINGTON, Texas — Former Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler returned to the crew as a particular assistant to basic supervisor Chris Younger, his teammate within the group’s minor league system practically 20 years in the past.
Younger stated Monday that Kinsler, who was a part of the franchise’s solely two World Collection groups in 2010 and 2011, will likely be closely concerned in participant growth and offering mentorship to each gamers and employees.
Kinsler, a four-time All-Star, was a part of a World Collection championship with the Boston Red Sox in 2018, a 12 months earlier than his retirement. Kinsler performed 14 seasons within the main leagues and spent the final three years within the entrance workplace of the San Diego Padres as a particular assistant in baseball operations and participant growth. The 40-year-old has been dwelling within the Dallas space, as he did all through his enjoying profession.
Kinsler performed for the U.S. within the 2017 World Baseball Traditional and Israel in final summer time’s Olympics, and he’ll handle Israel in subsequent month’s WBC.
Younger and Kinsler have been teammates for a number of weeks at Double-A Frisco in the summertime of 2004, the identical 12 months the pitcher made his massive league debut. They have been in massive league spring coaching collectively in 2005, then Younger was traded after that season.
A Seventeenth-round draft choose by Texas in 2003, Kinsler performed 1,066 video games for the Rangers from 2006-13, hitting .273 with 156 homers, 539 RBIs and 172 stolen bases. He hit .311 with a .422 on-base proportion in 34 postseason video games. He was inducted into the crew’s Corridor of Fame final summer time.
Kinsler hit .269 with 257 homers, 909 RBIs and 243 stolen bases in 1,888 profession video games total with Texas, Detroit (2014-17), the Los Angeles Angels (2018), Boston (2018), and San Diego (2019). He’s certainly one of solely two MLB second baseman with 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a number of seasons and had the one six-hit cycle in a nine-inning recreation since 1900 on April 15, 2009.