In the press conference this afternoon, Ron Washington said that the makeup of the coaching staff was not set, and they had not discussed specifics. I find that a little hard to believe. Especially after reading this article on the Phillies site. It says that the Rangers have received permission from the Phillies to interview former Ranger coach and A’s/Mets manager Art Howe to be Washington’s bench coach. The article seems to implu we only have permission for 24 hours to do this, so if this is going to happen, it’ll happen quickly, I would imagine.
There’s several open managerial slots, and Wakamatsu will probably be in on several of them. Even if he doesn’t get one of them, it might have been odd to have Wak as the bench coach for the guy who beat him out. I’m sure Wak would be professional about it, but still, you have to think it would be a sticky situation. Hopefully Wak can land one of the open managerial slots.