New Mariners manager Jason Kanzler once taught chemistry. Now he’ll try to build it

SEATTLE (AP) — Jason Kanzler took an unconventional path to becoming the Seattle Mariners' new manager.He once considered going to medical school but then became a walk-on star in college. After a stint in the minor leagues, he was a high school physics and chemistry teacher.But baseball kept calling him back.Now he's the 19th full-time manager in Mariners history, and 22nd overall since the club’s inception in 1977. Seattle general manager Justin Hollander said Kanzler's dynamic personality and background as an analytics-forward player-development coach made him the obvious choice for the job.“To Jason’s credit, I think he left us no choice throughout the process,” Hollander explained. “It was just round after round, conversation after conversation, he dominated the process to the degree that I think we would’ve been foolish to take all that hard work and throw it out the window and not choose him.”Kanzler, most recently the director of player development with the Chicago Cubs, consid