When the San Francisco Giants fired manager Gabe Kapler after the 2023 season, it marked the end of a four-year stint at the helm of the team and perhaps the end of Kapler’s managerial career in general.
Kapler spent two years as the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies before being fired in 2019 and replacing the retiring Bruce Bochy with the Giants. Kapler’s time in San Francisco mainly yielded middling results, outside of the team’s 107-55 finish in 2021, which nabbed Kapler a Manager of the Year Award.
The Giants were promptly eliminated from the playoffs in the NLDS by the rival Los Angeles Dodgers.
While Kapler took a job in the Miami Marlins front office last December, the former manager also seems to be blossoming in another career path: TikTok star.
The New York Post noted Thursday that Kapler had gained 62,000 followers on the app this year, with many of the comments on his videos centering on his looks. He’s started to lean into the “thirst trap” aspect, with a recent video of the ex-manager in a black suit garnering a whopping 1.3 million views and sending the comment section into a frenzy.
If this front-office work thing ultimately winds up not working out for Kapler, who spent his 12-year MLB playing career with six different teams before his 2010 retirement, he now has a wonderful career to fall back on as an influencer.
