Texas Rangers coaches Julio Rangel and Hector Ortiz will not return in 2021, per the beat guys. The team is not renewing the contract of Rangel, who has been the team’s pitching coach since 2019. Ortiz has been offered a role in the organization, but will not be on the major league coaching staff, and is weighing whether to accept the new role.
Rangel, 45, was hired by the Rangers in November, 2018, to be the pitching coach on new manager Chris Woodward’s staff. Rangel had already accepted the bullpen coach job for the Cincinnati Reds, who had just hired as their new manager San Francisco Giants farm director David Bell (who also interviewed with the Rangers for their managerial job).