Gabe Kapler, manager of the San Francisco Giants, has been rewarded with a new contract after a record season during which the ninth won 107 games, the best mark in the franchise, and was made of the West Division of the National League .
The extension runs through the 2024 season. Kapler, 46, just completed his second season as a manager.
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San Francisco edged the Dodgers, rivals on the final day of the regular season, by one game before Los Angeles, which had won all eight previous divisional titles, eliminated the Giants in a thrilling NL Division Series of five. games.
Kapler replaced Bruce Bochy when he retired after the 2019 campaign and immediately began to do things his own way, bringing in a great team of coaches to support him. San Francisco was 29-31 during the 2020 season shortened by the coronavirus.
Then the Giants surprised everyone this season by going 107-55 and winning the club’s premier division crown since 2012 in a year when the Dodgers and San Diego Padres were big favorites.
EFE
