Kinsler returns to Rangers as special assistant to GM
The Texas Rangers on Monday introduced that the membership has employed former Major League participant Ian Kinsler as Special Assistant to the General Manager. The former Rangers second baseman will help General Manager Chris Young in lots of sides of baseball operations.
Kinsler was inducted into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame on August 13, 2022, one in every of 26 members to be honored. He retired as a participant after the top of the 2019 marketing campaign and has spent the previous three seasons (2020-22) with the San Diego Padres entrance workplace as Special Assistant, Baseball Operations & Player Development. Kinsler will handle Team Israel within the 2023 World Baseball Classic in March. Israel will compete in Pool D with first spherical video games starting on March 11 at loanDepot park in Miami.
Kinsler holds a number of offensive data for a Rangers’ second baseman and batted .273 with 156 dwelling runs and 539 RBI over 1,066 video games with Texas from 2006-2013. He ranks second to Elvis Andrus on the membership’s all-time listing in stolen bases (172), is sixth in runs (748), locations seventh in additional base hits (428) and walks (462), and is eighth in dwelling runs (156-tied), doubles (249), whole bases (1,908), and multi-hit video games (335).
He is one in every of simply 13 gamers and two second basemen in Major League historical past with 30 homers and 30 steals every in a number of seasons, conducting that feat in each 2009 and 2011. Kinsler holds membership data for many video games began (662) and residential runs (109) when hitting first within the batting order, together with a group mark of 29 homers when main off the primary inning. He additionally scored greater than 100 runs in 4 completely different seasons, tying Michael Young for the membership file.
Kinsler additionally excelled within the postseason for the Rangers, setting profession group marks with a .311 batting common and .422 on-base proportion in 34 video games with Texas. He has the one six-hit cycle in a nine-inning recreation since 1900, tying total group marks for hits (6) and runs (5) on April 15, 2009 vs. Baltimore. A 3-time A.L. Star as a Ranger (2008-10-12), Kinsler was the group’s 2006 Rookie of the Year.
Overall, Kinsler completed his Major League profession with a .269 batting common, 257 homers, 909 RBI, and 243 stolen bases in 1,888 video games with the Rangers (2006-13), Tigers (2014-17), Angels (2018), Red Sox (2018), and Padres (2019). He performed for Israel within the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing final 12 months and for Team USA within the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
