By Nick Piecoro, azcentral sports
The Diamondbacks named Chip Hale their new manager today.
Hale, 49, emerged from a group of nine candidates to be the Diamondbacks’ pick to replace Kirk Gibson, who was fired as manager last month with three games left in the season.
This will be Hale’s first crack at being a major league manager, though he reportedly finished as a runner-up for managing jobs with the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners in recent years.
Hale, a University of Arizona product who still resides in Tucson, spent the first 10 years of his coaching career in the Diamondbacks’ organization, first as a minor league manager and then as the big league club’s third-base coach under then-manager Bob Melvin.
