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Six possible managerial candidates for the Oakland A’s

By Noah Yingling

OAKLAND, CA - SEPTMEBER 22: Third Base Coach Mark Kotsay #7 of the Oakland Athletics makes a pitching change during the game against the Seattle Mariners at RingCentral Coliseum on September 22, 2021 in Oakland, California. The Mariners defeated the Athletics 4-1. (Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images)
OAKLAND, CA - SEPTMEBER 22: Third Base Coach Mark Kotsay #7 of the Oakland Athletics makes a pitching change during the game against the Seattle Mariners at RingCentral Coliseum on September 22, 2021 in Oakland, California. The Mariners defeated the Athletics 4-1. (Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images) /
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Matt Quatraro of the Tampa Bay Rays is a managerial candidate for the Oakland A's
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Matt Quatraro is, perhaps, the leading external manager candidate for the Oakland A’s

Matt Quatraro is a name that you probably haven’t heard of before is you are a fan of the Oakland A’s or most baseball fans, in general. However, he is one of the leading candidates to become an MLB manager and soon.

Quatraro, 48, has been with the Tampa Bay Rays in two separate stints with the first starting before they even played an MLB game. They drafted him as a catcher in the 8th round of the Amateur Draft in 1996. He got up to Triple-A but retired after the ’02 season before making it to the majors but he took a coaching job with them.

From 2003 through 2013, he was a minor league catching coach, a hitting coach at Short Season-A, managed four seasons in Short Season-A and Single-A, and was their minor league hitting coordinator. For the 2014 season, the then-named Cleveland Indians hired him to be their assistant hitting coach.

When Quatraro was in Cleveland, Kevin Cash was the bullpen coach and in Cash’s third season of managing the Rays, Quatraro rejoined the Rays as third base coach. After Charlie Montoyo left to manage the Blue Jays in 2019, the Rays promoted him to be their bench coach.

Quatraro has been interviewed for numerous managerial positions before and he is also being interviewed by the New York Mets for their managerial position too. He is likely going to get one of the two spots or an opening next offseason.

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