The Kansas City Royals have hired Matt Quatraro as their new manager, the team announced Sunday.

Quatraro has been a longtime member of the Tampa Bay Rays organization, most recently serving as their bench coach, a job he took in October 2018. He replaces the fired Mike Matheny.

The Detroit Tigers have hired Tampa Bay scouting director Rob Metzler as vice president and assistant general manager, the team announced Tuesday.

Metzler spent 15 seasons with the Rays, working the past seven years as the team's senior director of amateur scouting.

He will lead the Tigers' amateur and international scouting departments, working under president of baseball operations Scott Harris.

The Miami Marlins have hired Skip Schumaker as the team's new manager, the team announced Tuesday.

A first-time manager, Schumaker played 11 seasons in the majors, with the first eight coming with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a part of two World Series-winning Cardinals teams in 2006 and 2011.

"As we continue to grow as an organization, we felt it was important to find an individual who had been a part of a winning culture," Marlins general manager Kim Ng said in a statement Tuesday.

By his own admission, John Schneider never amounted to much as a baseball player.

On Friday, Schneider fulfilled a dream he'd pursued for 15 years since giving up on playing and choosing to coach instead.

Toronto's former bench coach, Schneider was named the 14th manager in Blue Jays history, signing a three-year contract with the team he led on an interim basis for 78 games last season.

The Texas Rangers have hired Bruce Bochy as their manager, bringing the three-time World Series champion with 2,003 career victories out of a short retirement to take over a team that has had six consecutive losing seasons.

Texas made the surprising announcement Friday, just more than two weeks after its season ended. Bochy agreed to a three-year contract.

The San Francisco Giants have hired Houston assistant general manager Pete Putila as their new GM.

President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi announced Monday night that Putila will replace Scott Harris, who was hired as GM for the Detroit Tigers last month.

"Pete has a stellar reputation in the industry as a creative thinker and strong collaborator, and we view him as a seamless fit with our culture of embracing a growth mindset on and off the field," Zaidi said.

The Atlanta Braves have signed Spencer Strider to a six-year, $75 million deal.

The rookie, who turns 24 this month, has just 33 Major League appearances.

Strider said he was eager to get a deal done because of "the commitment to winning not just right now but in the future with the guys that are in this clubhouse."

"That means a lot to me," he added. "It's very cool and humbling to have the opportunity to stay here."

Since August, the Braves have also signed young stars Austin Riley and Michael Harris II to lucrative long-term contracts.

The Los Angeles Angels have hired Phil Nevin as manager for the 2023 season, removing his interim title and giving him a one-year contract Wednesday before the final game of the regular season.

The Angels will miss the playoffs for an eighth straight year. Nevin was promoted from third-base coach when Joe Maddon was fired in June with the Angels mired in what became a club-record 14-game losing streak.

″It certainly means a lot," Nevin said. "It wasn't exactly how I envisioned these things happening, but I know I've been given a heck of an opportunity with some special people that I've created relationships with now for the last six, seven months."

Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani will make $30 million in 2023 after he and the team agreed to a one-year contract for next season to avoid arbitration.

The contract is the largest ever for an arbitration-eligible player, surpassing the $27 million given to Mookie Betts by the Boston Red Sox in January 2020, a month before he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani's deal is fully guaranteed with no other provisions.