2024 Coaches and Staff

Cardoza returns to Double-A Frisco in 2024 after managing the RoughRiders in 2023.

He led the Riders to a 64-73 record last season, missing the playoffs.

Following the season, he managed the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League to an AFL Championship and was a bench coach in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League in Puerto Rico with Cangrejeros (Crab Eaters) de Santurce.

The Puerto Rico native piloted the Hickory Crawdads to a 66-65 record in 2022 and has amassed a 376-280 (.573) total over his seven seasons as a skipper. With Down East, he took the Wood Ducks to the Low-A East Championship Series before falling to Charleston.

Prior to his time in Down East, he managed the Arizona League Rangers (2019), winning the AZL Championship, and Dominican Summer League Rangers (2016-2019), twice reaching the championship series.

Hired on by the Rangers in 2015, Cardoza was the head coach at his alma mater, Decatur High School, in Georgia for two years.

As a player, Cardoza spent two seasons at Georgia State University and two years at Armstrong Atlantic State, where he was a gold glove second baseman and All-Peach Belt Conference selection.

Goebel starts his third season in the Rangers organization in 2024 and his second with the RoughRiders after serving as the pitching coach for High-A Hickory in 2022.

Under Goebel, the RoughRiders owned a 4.98 ERA while finishing second in the Texas League with 1,335 strikeouts as a pitching staff.

Prior to his time in the Texas system, the Illinois native was the head coach (2019-2021) and the pitching coach (2014-2018) for Division II Parkland College in Champaign, Ill.

Taking over as head coach in the fall of 2018, Goebel guided the Cobras to an 82-39 (.678) record over the team’s next three seasons. During his tenure as pitching coach, the program sent 21 pitchers to either the MLB Draft or an NCAA Division I program, and twice led the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) in strikeouts (2017, 2018). He was also a member of the 2009-10 Parkland coaching staff that guided the Cobras to the NJCAA World Series, where they finished in fifth place. That team featured Major Leaguers Kevin Kiermaier (Toronto Blue Jays), Nick Wittgren (Kansas City Royals) and Dan Winkler (most recently, Chicago White Sox).

A right-handed pitcher when he played, Goebel began his collegiate career at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park before returning to his native Illinois to pitch at Bradley University for two seasons (2007-08). He was an Honorable Mention for the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Award in 2007. Goebel played high school baseball at Edwardsville (Ill.) High School, where he posted an 11-1 record and 0.69 ERA during his senior season.

Tuntland will return to Frisco in 2024 after serving as the club’s hitting coach in 2023.

Under Tuntland, the 2023 RoughRiders set franchise records with 680 walks and a .355 team on-base percentage. The 680 walks as a team were the most in all of Double-A.

This marks the third year in a row that Carlos Cardoza, Jon Goebel and Tuntland will all be on the same coaching staff.

Starting his fourth season with the Rangers organization, Tuntland was the hitting coach for Hickory in 2022 after serving as the hitting coach for the Arizona Complex League Rangers in 2021.

From 2016 to 2018, the Illinois native coached in the collegiate ranks at Oakton CC, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and West Virginia, his alma mater.

Tuntland was drafted in the 29th round of the 2013 draft by San Francisco, hitting .227/.345/.338/.683 over his two seasons.

Wolfe will join the RoughRiders for his first season in Double-A and his second season in the Rangers system.

In 2023, he served as the hitting coach for the ACL Rangers, helping guide an offense that finished with the second-most total bases in the ACL and tied for the second-most home runs. Prior to joining the Rangers, Wolfe served two years as a hitting coordinator at Cressy Sports Performance in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Before that, he coached for two seasons in the St. Louis farm system with the Gulf Coast League Cardinals and spent four seasons as the head coach for Minnesota Blizzard Baseball, a 15U fall league team in Minneapolis/St. Paul. As a player, he was a 39th-round selection by the Astros in 2016 out of Kansas State University, reaching Double-A Corpus Christi.

Ori will serve as the Frisco trainer, his first season in Double-A, after being in that same role with the Low-A Down East Wood Ducks in 2023.

In his fourth season with the Rangers organization, Ori has advanced every year, starting with the Dominican Summer League in 2021 and moving up to the Arizona Complex League in 2022. Before his time with Texas, Ori played baseball at Harper College (one year) and the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh (three years) prior to getting his master's degree in Advanced Athletic Training at the University of South Carolina.

Platts joins the RoughRiders for his second season in the Rangers organization in 2024.

In his first year, he was the strength and conditioning coach for the Low-A Down East Wood Ducks before spending a season with the Cubs, working in the Dominican Summer League. The Canada native completed his strength and conditioning internship with the University of Iowa athletic department in 2022 and spent four years with the Okotoks Dawgs Baseball Academy from 2019 through 2022. Platts played two seasons at Southeastern Community College in Iowa.