FORT WORTH, Texas -- A day of off-the-record confirmations and one for-the-record denial about who will become the Texas Rangers` hitting coach came to an end Tuesday with the club expected to add Clint Hurdle to the coaching staff later this week.

Three sources said that Hurdle, the former Colorado Rockies manager, has emerged from a group of four finalists that included Thad Bosley, Gerald Perry and Rusty Greer. Each candidate interviewed Monday at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

But Hurdle declined comment Tuesday night, and general manager Jon Daniels said the Rangers haven`t settled on who will replace longtime hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo.

That announcement is likely on hold until after the conclusion of the World Series. The Rangers are content to obey the wishes of Major League Baseball, which requests that teams avoid making news on World Series game days.

Hurdle wouldn`t come to the Rangers without experience as a hitting coach. He instructed Rockies hitters from 1997 to 2002 before he was promoted to replace Buddy Bell as manager. Hurdle guided Colorado to the World Series in 2007, but he was fired in May after a sluggish start by a team that eventually won the National League wild-card berth into the playoffs.