KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Longtime Royals coach Mike Jirschele is calling it a career.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Jirschele announced his retirement following 38 seasons with the organization. Jirschele, who joined the Royals as a minor league player in 1988, was the third base coach for Kansas City during the club\u2019s 2015 World Series title, and spent his final season as the manager of the Omaha Storm Chasers.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who know me know I don\u2019t love the attention that comes from an announcement like this,\u201d Jirschele said in a release from the Royals. \u201cAll I\u2019ve wanted is to do my job. I\u2019m grateful for a career in baseball, all these years with the Royals, and the friendships that have come along the way. I hope the people I\u2019ve worked with think I\u2019ve done my job, worked hard for them, and helped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jirschele has spent 20 seasons of his time with the Royals managing in the minor leagues, with 17 of them in Omaha. In his time in Omaha, 95 players were promoted from Triple-A to Kansas City, including Zack Greinke, Eric Hosmer, Danny Duffy, Mike Moustakas and Yordano Ventura.<\/p>\n
Three times Jirschele was named Manager of the Year, earning the award in the Gulf Coast League in 1992, Carolina League in 1994, and International League in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an absolute honor to work alongside Jirsch,\u201d said Royals general manager J.J. Picollo. \u201cHe\u2019s done just about everything in player development and was obviously a big part of our World Series championship. And he did all of it with class and dignity. <\/p>\n \u201cVery few people can connect with players the way he has throughout his career. He\u2019s truly a Royals legend and we will miss him dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with his time in the minor leagues, Jirschele spent 2014-19 as the third base coach for Kansas City under Ned Yost.<\/p>\n From 1998-2002, he was the Royals\u2019 Minor League Infield Coordinator, and that followed his coaching career beginning in 1990 when he began as the hitting coach for Kansas City\u2019s Class-A affiliate.<\/p>\n He closes his career as the all-time leader in wins in Omaha Storm Chasers history and managed 30% of Omaha\u2019s 57 seasons as a Royals affiliate.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kctv5.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Longtime Royals coach Mike Jirschele is calling it a career. On Friday, Jirschele announced his retirement following 38 seasons with the organization. Jirschele, who joined the Royals as a minor league player in 1988, was the third base coach for Kansas City during the club\u2019s 2015 World Series title, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[391759,372873,43627,391704,348874,353342,27155,311745],"class_list":["post-2082813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-champion","tag-coach","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mike-jirschele","tag-omaha-storm-chasers","tag-retirement","tag-royals","tag-world-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082814,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082813\/revisions\/2082814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kansas](\"https:\/\/gray-kctv-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/PZL3WBWTKFBTFNPXRR3S5C7TTI.jpg?auth=5df19137de9300743445c58702c54fc40c09d53c0a75d2fb93dc27f20fbb724c&width=980&height=583&smart=true\")
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