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Minnesota Twins to interview Sandy Alomar Jr. for manager job

By Ed Carroll

Apr 24, 2014; St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Minnesota Twins hat and glove in the dugout against the Tampa Bay Rays mat Tropicana Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 24, 2014; St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Minnesota Twins hat and glove in the dugout against the Tampa Bay Rays mat Tropicana Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Minnesota Twins could look to a division rival for their next manager, as they plan to interview Cleveland Indians first-base coach Sandy Alomar Jr.

The Minnesota Twins plan to interview Sandy Alomar Jr. for the team’s open manager job, according to Fox Sports’s Ken Rosenthal, as the team continues to search for a replacement to long-time manager Ron Gardenhire.

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Alomar, a six-time MLB all-star in his playing days, mostly with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, during his 20-year playing career, which stretched from 1988 until he retired in 2007.

The Twins fired Gardenhire following a fourth 90-loss season in 2014, and are on the hunt for a new manager for the first time since 2002, when Gardenhire replaced the retiring Tom Kelly as skipper. Alomar has never been a full-time MLB manager, but he was the Indians first-base coach from 2009 until 2012, when he was promoted to bench coach, although he went back to coaching first base for the 2014 season.

Alomar also managed the final six games of the 2012 season for the Indians when then-manager Manny Acta was dismissed at the end of that year, going 3-3. He is also interviewing for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ manager job.

Alomar also spent two seasons as the New York Mets’ Major League catching instructor following his playing retirement, and has helped the Indians with a similar role since returning to Cleveland. Alomar was a catcher and the 1990 Rookie of the Year award-winner, and made the All-Star Game with the Cleveland Indians six times, in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1998, and he was the All-Star Game MVP in 1997, when he led the American League to a comeback in Cleveland’s ballpark, then called Jacob’s Field.

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