A familiar face is returning to the Blue Jays coaching staff next season with the club announcing on Monday that DeMarlo Hale has been hired as the associate manager under manager John Schneider. Hale, 62, previously spent six years as the Blue Jays bench coach under former manager John Gibbons from 2013-18 and helped lead the team to back-to-back ALCS appearances in 2015 and 2016. Most recently, Hale had been the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians for the past three seasons under Terry Francona. “When the opportunity came up to return to Toronto in this role, it felt like a good fit.
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