Just a month before the Premier 12, the tournament giving the U.S. baseball team the opportunity to qualify for the 2020 Olympics, U.S. Baseball announced a managerial switch.

USA Baseball Executive Scott Brosius, who won three World Series with the new York Yankees from 1998 to 2000 and had a slugging percentage .529 in four World series appearances, will take over in place of Joe Girardi. USA Baseball said Girardi resigned to focus on opportunities in Major League baseball.

Brosius was previously appointed as the team’s bench coach. Several other coaches were shuffled, with Willie Randolph moving to bench coach, Ernie young moving to third base and 2000 gold medalist Anthony Sanders joining the staff coach at first base. Remained unchanged: hitting coach Phil Plantier, pitching coach Brian Price and bullpen coach Raleigh de Armas.

The U.S. team will play the Netherlands, Mexico and the Dominican Republic starting November 2. The top two teams from the group will advance to the six-team super round in Japan.

The top finisher from the Americas region and the top finisher from Asia/Oceania (except Japan, which has an automatic bid as host) will qualify for the Olympic baseball tournament. The US will have two more opportunities to qualify after that.

The U.S. won silver in the inaugural Premier 12 tournament in 2015. As in 2015, the U.S. will not use players on MLB 40-man rosters.

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