The Texas Rangers relieved Jon Daniels of his duties as the team’s president of baseball operations on Wednesday.
Daniels, who will turn 45 next Wednesday, joined the Rangers’ baseball operations department in 2002. He was named as the team’s eighth general manager on Oct. 4, 2005 and promoted to president of baseball operations in March 2013.
Per the Rangers, executive vice president and general manager Chris Young will oversee the team’s operations department. Young was hired by the Rangers in December 2020 to work with Daniels.
Texas fired manager Chris Woodward on Monday.
The Rangers entered play on Wednesday with a 52–64 record and are in line to miss the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. They are 22 games behind the division-leading Houston Astros in the American League West….