PHOENIX -- The D-backs will name Chip Hale their next manager, a source told MLB.com on Monday. The team has not confirmed the hiring but is expected to make an announcement today.Hale will replace Kirk Gibson, who was dismissed with three days remaining in the 2014 season. 
Hale, who most recently was bench coach for the A's, managed in the D-backs system for six seasons before joining the big league staff as third-base coach, a position he held from 2007-09.After leaving the D-backs following the 2009 season, he was the third-base coach for the Mets in 2010-11 before becoming Bob Melvin's bench coach with Oakland.The team acknowledged that there were nine candidates for the position: Sandy Alomar Jr., Jay Bell, Tim Bogar, Andy Green, Hale, Joe McEwing, Phil Nevin, Jim Tracy and Turner Ward.Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
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