Miguel Rojas is already acting like a coach, and one Dodgers teammate thinks that could turn into a manager’s job before long.
Max Muncy made that case Monday on the “Foul Territory” podcast, where he was asked by host Erik Kratz whether Rojas could handle managing if a team needed one next season. Muncy didn’t need much time to answer.
“100%, yeah he’d be great at it,” he said.
Rojas is already working in a player development role for the Dodgers after retiring when the team fell short in its three-peat pursuit last season, and Muncy said the veteran infielder had been studying Dave Roberts closely as his playing career wound down.
“He started paying a lot of attention to how Doc ran things,” he said. “He started asking a lot of questions. He would definitely be an outstanding manager, there’s no doubt about that.”
Muncy also pointed to the way Rojas handled people in the clubhouse, saying that part of the job would come naturally to him.
“He just has that ability to have fun with guys, get their ear a little bit, also be serious with them when he has to,” he said. “That’s always the thing you worry about with guys when they become managers, can they separate being the player, the teammate, from having to be the disciplinarian and having to make those types of decisions. I think Miggy Ro would be excellent at it, because he’s basically already been doing that.”
For Muncy, the signs were already there in the day-to-day details. Rojas, he said, pushed teammates to keep up with their work and wasn’t shy about speaking up when needed.
“He held everyone to a high standard when it came to doing your early work and that kind of stuff,” Muncy said. “He wasn’t afraid to come up to everybody and check in and be like, ‘Hey, you need to get out here and start working on this.
You need to be better at this type of thing.’ He was already doing that, and I think he could make that transition.”
If Rojas does end up managing in 2027, it apparently won’t be with the Dodgers. As of November, the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Angels and Seattle Mariners have openings.
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