As a manager, the 2024 season is Derek Lee Shelton’s fifth consecutive season managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball (MLB). However, he played football at Warren Township High School, Southern Illinois University and in the minor leagues for two years before elbow surgery forced him to end his playing career. Instead, he focused on coaching and managing, starting with the minor league teams and moving up to the Cleveland Indians in 2002 as minor league hitting coach and later being promoted to interim hitting coach in 2005 before assuming that role on a full-time basis. .
Between 2010 and 2018, Shelton served as the hitting and quality control coach for the Tampa Bay Rays while also serving as the bench coach for the Minnesota Twins in 2018. Notably, he got his first MLB managerial job when the Pittsburgh Pirates hired him before the start of the 2020 season. Before that, he owned minor league teams under the Yankees organization and managed the Staten Island Yankees to the New York-Penn League championship in 2002.
Derek Shelton earns a salary of $1 million already according to mlbtraderumors.com from 2024. Current earnings are not in the public domain until 2024.
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