What’s cooking within the baseball world as we close to the tip of October….

1. The World Sequence begins tonight:

Recreation 1 between the Rangers and Diamondbacks takes locations tonight in Arlington, with Nathan Eovaldi on the hill for Texas and Zac Gallen getting the beginning for Arizona.  Seemingly an unlikely matchup when the playoffs started, the Rangers and D’Backs every pulled off upsets in opposition to higher-seeded opponents in each spherical, and overcame 3-2 deficits within the League Championship Sequence.  The D’Backs are within the World Sequence for the second time in franchise historical past, capturing the title of their first journey to the Fall Traditional again in 2001.  Texas remains to be searching for its first championship after developing quick in two prior World Sequence appearances in 2010-11.

2. The Padres start their managerial search:

Now that Bob Melvin is formally the Giants’ new supervisor, the Padres have a gap to fill within the dugout.  The early buzz is that bench coach Ryan Flaherty and senior advisor Mike Shildt are the favorites to succeed Melvin, and Flaherty will inteview with the Padres immediately after Shildt spoke with the membership Wednesday.  Pitching coach Ruben Niebla may additionally get an interview earlier than San Diego strikes on to discover any potential exterior candidates.  Even when Flaherty, Shildt, or Niebla certainly up with the supervisor’s job, it solely is smart that the Padres would do due diligence in lining up another interviews, simply in case an sudden contender would possibly emerge for the job….

3: Schumaker sad in Miami?:

…for example, perhaps one other present MLB skipper?  Jon Heyman of the New York Publish experiences that Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker is “upset over” the departure of basic supervisor Kim Ng, who declined her finish of the mutual possibility between her and the Marlins for the 2024 season.  Proprietor Bruce Sherman had deliberate to basically demote Ng by hiring a president of baseball operations to work above her, and this naturally didn’t sit effectively with Ng — or with Schumaker, who was employed by Ng to handle the membership simply over a yr in the past.  Schumaker’s first season in Miami resulted in 84 wins and a wild card berth, and he’d certainly get curiosity for different managerial jobs elsewhere, if his displeasure over Ng has led to a reconsideration of his personal future with the Marlins.  Nevertheless, Heyman doesn’t really feel the Marlins would let Schumaker discover another choices, as he’s below contract via the 2024 season (with a membership possibility for 2025).