Former MLB catcher Nick Hundley hired by Rangers as special assistant to general manager
Arlington, Texas — The Texas Rangers today announced that the club has hired Nick Hundley as Special Assistant to the General Manager. The team has also signed outfielder Joe McCarthy to a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League Spring Training camp.
The 38-year-old Hundley has been working with Major League Baseball as Senior Director of Baseball Operations since early 2020. The former catcher moved into the front office after a 12-year MLB career with San Diego (2008-14), Baltimore (2014), Colorado (2015-16), San Francisco (2017-18), and Oakland (2019). He batted .247 with 93 home runs spanning 974 games in the Majors and saw action in at least 58 games for 11 consecutive years to begin his career. His final Major League game came with Oakland on June 8, 2019 against the Rangers at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Over his first three seasons in the Majors, Hundley was teammates on the Padres with current Rangers General Manager Chris Young, and the pair also worked together for MLB in 2020. The Seattle-area native played at the University of Arizona and was a second round selection of the San Diego Padres in the 2005 MLB Draft.
McCarthy, who turns 28 on February 23, spent the 2021 season with Triple-A Sacramento in the San Francisco organization, posting a .306/.384/.542/.926 slash line with a career-high 15 home runs and 55 RBI. His batting average, slugging, and OPS figures were also career bests. The outfielder/first baseman saw his only Major League action in 2020, when he appeared in four games for the Giants. Originally selected by Tampa Bay in the fifth round of the 2015 MLB Draft out of the University of Virginia, McCarthy owns a career .269/.377/.428/.805 slash line with 45 home runs and 246 RBI over six minor league seasons in the Rays (2015-19) and Giants (2019, 2021) farm systems. The Scranton, Pa., native was teammates with Rangers pitcher Josh Sborz on Virginia's 2015 College World Series championship club. His brother, Jake, an outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks, made his big league debut in 2021.