TODAY: “Many folks around baseball believe” Tingler will be hired as the Padres’ next manager, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link). While nothing is yet confirmed, “Tingler is seen as [the] favorite.”
OCT. 16: The Padres could be nearing the final steps in their search for a new manager, as two candidates will receive second interviews for the position. Dennis Lin and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic (Twitter link) report that Jayce Tingler is in San Diego today, while Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Ron Washington will also meet with the team later this week. These secondary interviews will involve Padres ownership for the first time, as executive chairman Ron Fowler and general partner Peter Seidler will be meeting with Tingler and Washington.
It isn’t known if any of the other known candidates from the Padres’ first round of interviews will also be brought back for a second meeting, or if Tingler and Washington are the only two finalists for the job (or if any candidates could still surface in the future). As per Acee, Fowler and Seidler will give their input but the final hiring is with GM A.J. Preller, which makes for an interesting dynamic given Preller’s connection to both candidates.
The expectation was that San Diego would go with an experienced former big league skipper with their new hire, after failing to find success with a first-time manager in Andy Green. Of the five people interviewed for the job, however, only Washington and Brad Ausmus had any substantial MLB experience. Tingler and Nationals third base coach Bob Henley have only managed minor league clubs, while Padres bench coach Rod Barajas served as the team’s interim manager for the final eight games of the season after Green was fired.
If experience is still seen as a key factor in the Padres’ decision-making, Washington would have the clear advantage, with a 664-611 record and two AL pennants on his resume as the Rangers’ manager from 2007-14. This overlapped with Preller’s time working in the Texas front office, though Preller also worked with Tingler during this same period. Tingler was a manager for the Rangers’ Dominican Summer League and Arizona League clubs, and also worked as the Rangers’ minor league field coordinator from 2012-14. Tingler’s current role is player development field coordinator for Texas, after working in jobs ranging from assistant GM to interim bench coach over the last five seasons.
Hired Gun 23
Andy Green was Preller’s ‘diamond in the rough’ and that had less than desired results. Let someone else take a chance on Tingler. Washington has a proven track record and my vote to be at the helm on opening day in 2020.
braves25
Please please be Tingler! I want Wash to stay in Atl!
todd76
Keep him away from the blow and he’ll be good.
Vandals Took The Handles
I can’t stand AJ Preller – another self-promoting professional sports figure that knows/does a part of something, but doesn’t have the wherewithal to be successful because he’s not good at the overall responsibilities he talks himself into.
Ron Washington goes all the way back to Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” book (not the movie), in which he was the one respected by all the players and coached them up. Knows the sport in and out. Has a track record of developing young major league players and reviving the career of veterans.
Preller is a theoretical guy, beloved by analytic community that has no idea at all why some teams win and others don’t. With great fanfare from the young baseball media that scouts players on spreadsheets, Preller’s brought up two excellent players in Tatis and Paddack; along with over a dozen prospects that have proved to be pretty much good at maybe one thing, but overall quite ordinary. Some of which are already gone, or on their way shortly – Margevicius, Lauer, Reyes, Renfroe, Margot, Mejia, Naylor, Urais, etc.
From what I saw, Andy Green had no idea at all on how to bring those players along at a major league level to become functioning, contributing members of a winning team. The idea that Meyers, Hosmer, and Machado were going to do that work was delusional.
Washington helped Atlanta’s young players as well as some of their veterans, as he’s helped players since he started coaching 23 years ago. Statistics are snapshots of what happened…not why what happened happened. Those players on the Padres ML roster and at the upper levels of what I believe to be an historical highly overrated farm system need to put their press clippings aside and learn to play fundamental baseball if they expect to stick around MLB in any capacity long enough to qualify for a pension.
In short, Ron Washington is the perfect guy to come in and save Preller’s bacon.
StandUpGuy
I agree with Vandals, HiredGun, and Braves. I want Wash to stay in Atlanta for personal reasons. I think he is the best third base coach in baseball. However, I like him too much to want the Braves to contractually force him to pass up a serious promotion offered by another team. I think Wash will be the San Diego manager and if he is not, the 6 other management vacancies assure he will be the manager of some major league team next season. He really never deserved to be quietly forced out of Texas in the first place. Wash was the best manager the Rangers have ever had. He deserves another chance.
In reference to what Vandals said… He is exactly right. Wash could do nothing but help them and Preller is nothing short of a front office cancer. He is the most similar person to BVW in baseball. If the Padres win it will be in spite of him. Not because of him. Trading good prospects to take on tons of $ for guys like Matt Kemp, BJ Upton, Justin Upton and Craig Kimbrel is not smart. He always tries to make a big splash for players that have big names because their best production is behind them. Preller helped build a great farm system but most people fail to realize that drafting and international signings have far more to do with the scouting director and less to do with the GM. The GM may have final say over the scouting director but they make their choices based off what the scouting directors say. Some teams actually let their scouting directors make the final call on players taken during the draft. I know for a fact that the Braves scouting director did that this most recent draft. GM’s are mostly used for free agent signings and trades. Hosmer, Matt Kemp, BJ Upton, Justin Upton and Craig Kimbrel are perfect examples of players Preller traded too many prospects and/or money for when it was totally unnecessary. The Pads would be better now if he didn’t make those trades and whether Preller knew it or not, the Pads weren’t going to come close to winning it all because he made those trades. Manny Machado is still a good player but Preller vastly overpaid him because he wanted to make a big name “splash.” That is his weakness. Big names. The Kemp acquisition kind of reminds me of the Mets acquisition of Cano. Why do it? Because he is well known since he used to be good? Hosmer, too. Hosmer was obviously never worth that contract. Most baseball fans knew his name though so AJ had to pull the trigger. The Pads have built a great farm system but that is no to Prellers credit. That is to their scouting directors credit. I think Ron Washington would help the Pads a lot but I feel kind of bad for him because Preller will likely waste most of the $ and maybe some prospects leaving Wash with nowhere near enough tools to win a championship. I hope Wash gets a highly paid managerial job. I just hope he has a GM that gives him a legit chance to win wherever he goes.
Bkingthrows
@standup – This is just not a good take. Time and time again, people have written about owernship wanting preller to make a winner. When it didn’t work out, he basically said let me do this the right way. You mentioned one mistake since his first year as GM (Hosmer) and that, most believe was an ownership driven choice as well.
You basically blame him for things that he didn’t get to choose and then say his job in hiring good people and being the director of those supposed “scouting dir” choices hasn’t been done well. This is about as bias as they come. Padres have never had a farm like this, never a Tatis, never a machado and very few times a paddack. Not to mention, Gore/Patino are lying in wait.
I don’t disagree that he could have done better (Any GM in existence would say that with hindsight things would have been better), but this is an absurdly one-sided take with little to back it up.
StandUpGuy
His first year still counts. And it was terrible. Trading Yasmani Grandal for Matt Kemp? Trading a bunch of prospects including Max Fried for 1 year of Justin Upton? Giving Wil Meyers an $83 million extension? The terrible Hosmer contract is just a small part of the equation. Preller is paid to dole out contracts and make trades. Scouts are paid to determine who to draft. Maybe Preller is great at building a scouting department. Saying he is good at drafting players is kind of like saying the general manager of a restaurant is a great chef just because he hired great chefs. I was probably a little hard on him but aside from the farm system his scouting department told him how to build, I haven’t seen anything impressive. Maybe your right and the Padres owners force him to make free agent signings. That may mean they aren’t his fault but it certainly doesn’t make him a good GM. If the owners actually forced him to sign Hosmer as you say, then even his employers don’t trust his judgement. That isn’t a good sign either. Either that or they both agreed to sign Hosmer and Myers which means they are both equally inept. The biggest problem is that most of his terrible decisions came when the moves wouldn’t have brought them into contention even if they did work out. A team that perennially stays near the bottom of the division shouldn’t blow tons of cash and prospects on aging veterans that can’t push them over the top anyway. If it is all ownership then Preller is just a figure head and it doesn’t matter what he does. If that is the case then it is worse than I thought. It means the Padres are screwed as long as the current owners own them. I didn’t think it was that bad. I just thought it was a fireable GM that made a bunch of bad very expensive decisions. I do think he probably isn’t quite as bad as he used to be but that doesn’t make him good. The deals he made his first season as GM set the Pads back several years.
Bkingthrows
What basis do you have to say it’s an overrated farm system? Seems like nothing but assumptions. Farms take time to develop into ML progress.
I bet if we start succeeding next year it will be because whomever they assign the manager role was a juggernaut of a developer and Preller will still be “nothing but theories” in your mind.
There’s a reason why all of the best teams in baseball are also the most analytics driven. I’m shocked that people still can’t see that.
fowlbraves
leave wash alone. 🙂
StandUpGuy
Whatever I said, whatever I did… I didn’t mean it. I just want you back for good.
This time around, no more tears.
MiserablePadreFan
Never thought in a million years I’d see lyrics to Take That’s undisputed masterpiece on MLBTR
StandUpGuy
Then you deeply underestimated at least one MLBTR commenter. Shame on you. I am also disappointed in you not recognizing my reference to the musical genius known as Michael Fredo.
Show Me Your Tatis
AFTER ALL HE’S BEEN THROUGH!
jsay2948
The lack of interest in Buck Showalter is moronic.
terry g
Preller does not seem like the type of GM that likes to share power with his manager.
bilak33
Yep to both comments
SDHotDawg
All we need to know is summed up by the statement that Preller does not like to share power.
nypadre66
After all, he is a rock star GM. Just ask him.
Bkingthrows
he has literally never called himself that smh.
Just like he wasn’t the one that came up with hot talent lava. People have an unreal amount of recency and overlooking bias on here lol.
SDHotDawg
LOL … He never denied it, either.
😉
420ambassador
if tingler gets hired imma get my boy pookie and we finna burn this mahfocka down
possible donkey
I’m sorry…what?
imindless
Padres will still be bad so it doesn’t really matter.
CrewBrew
So will Kershaw when the month turns to October…
Eta34
Ouch
Vizionaire
but he gets the dodges there. as for padres when was the last time they won anything?
Marcus was already taken
And then lose it for them on the big stage
Vizionaire
as i said when was the last time?
martyjay75
They won a game I went to this year.
imindless
2005 last time padres were relevant. I also have never been one to deny kershaws ability shrinks in playoffs.
I also take 2 world series appearances and multiple trips to deep playoff runs than being out in may/june hoping the high farm prospects pan out.
keepinthafaithsd1
Just shut up and let us win the offseason okay? Dodgers suck anyways yall are just the 1st place losers.
Marcus was already taken
And yet the dodgers keep losing every time. It’s getting real sad
padreforlife
2010 they went to last day of season for playoffs
OrelSax
If Pads fans are so eager to poke fun at the Dodgers for making it to the WS and then losing, then I find it quite ironic that they’re excited about bringing on Wash.
Isn’t exactly that pretty much exactly what he did with Texas? lol
nypadre66
If you could read, you’d notice that was one of the mouth-breathing dogger fans who started this. But reading comprehension is a little beyond the reach of LA fans.
Koamalu
2010.
LosPobres1904
Ok Bills of baseball.
ryjo34jones
At least both his knees are fine
VegasSDfan
The Dodgers should rename themselves to the San Diego Dodgers! They are choke artists.
99socalfrc
So the two finalists both have ties to Preller during his time with the Rangers. Way to keep an open mind there AJ. How is this guy still employed????
How very Padres of them that this is the final two candidates for the job. Also following Padres script Barajas will move on and find success elsewhere.
charles stevens
Are you not happy with the pipeline of talent he has brought your team? The guy is one of if not the best talent evaluators in baseball. The Rangers wouldn’t have went on their WS runs without him. I feel like he deserves an opportunity to let his guys mature at the major league level. It doesn’t happen overnight.
99socalfrc
Is he though? He traded Trea Turner for Wil Myers and then paid Myers $83m.
Regarding his time in Texas, the two teams that went to the World Series were made up of vets and free agent signings, not homegrown talent that Preller found. The players he found were mostly busts. His list of “finds” from his Texas days is basically Profar, Andrus and Odor.
When you look beneath the headlines Preller’s farms have mostly been flops.
rangerslegend34107
The Rangers were not vets and free agents. Most were young and either came up directly through the farm system, or were in trades when they were still in the minor leagues and then came through the Rangers Farm System.
Traded for while still in minors or had very little playing time in MLB:
Michael Young
Nelson Cruz
Josh Hamilton
Elvis Andrus
Matt Harrison
Neftali Feliz
Saltalamachia
David Murphy
Juaquin Arias
Rangers Completely Home grown (drafted by Rangers)
Ian Kinsler
Derek Holland
CJ Wilson
Mitch Moreland
Alexi Ogando (rule 5 draft)
Julio Borbon
Taylor Teagarden
Chris Davis
Craig Gentry
Brandon Boggs
Tommy Hunter
Darren O’Day
Pedro Strop
Darren Oliver
Michael Kirkman
Leonys Martin
Scott Feldman
Traded for at deadline:
Cliff Lee (2010)
Bengie Molina (2010)
Jorge Cantu (2010)
Chris Ray (2010)
Jeff Fancoeur (2010)
Koji Uehera (2011)
Mike Gonzalez (2011)
Vets:
Colby Lewis (originally drafted by Rangers, became journeyman and signed back with the Rangers after being in Japan)
Mike Adams
Joe Nathan
Adrian Beltre
Mike Napoli (traded for)
Vladimir Guerrero
They were young teams with veteran leadership. Not built through free agency
tigerd7335
You have way way way too much time on your hands
SDHotDawg
Take a look at your list of “homegrown” players. Then, consider that Preller’s so-called “expertise” was international scouting (latin America).
99socalfrc
Many of the names on your list of homegrown Rangers were not acquired while Preller was even there. Kinsler and Young stand out, I’m sure there are more.
nypadre66
Not just Trea Turner, but Jake Blauers and Joe Ross for Wil Myers (and Jose Castillo and Reyes who’s turned into a fabulous batting practice pitcher for the Padres opposition, but keeps getting chances because he’s one of Preller’s “finds”).
Tha Dilla
You do realize Barajas was a player on the Rangers during Prellers time here.
charles stevens
This smells like Preller is feeling the heat and wants someone he can trust in the dugout. With that said it boils down to what he prefers. Wash is a players manager and motivator like Dusty Baker but managing from the gut cost him a ring. Tingler is a sabermetrics guru that might be one of the smartest cats out there. Choose wisely.
Lorenzo
As with trades, anything AJ Preller does is under wraps. Not that he’ll try for a surprise, but keeping the cone of silence while the discussions go on is just smart, as well as his usual mode of operation. The insider leaks, such as they are, may or may not tell us anything. They may even be misdirection. It’s just another indication that fans aren’t part of it, and neither are the reporters.
padreforlife
Washington aka Snow is retread with baggage.
jkoch717
Yep, baggage…one small plastic bag… *sniffs*
BravesCanada
He’s done wonders with the Braves infielders defensively. We’d gladly keep him.
padreforlife
Bargain basement managers nothing like breaking bank Padre owners!
99socalfrc
In fariness they are still paying for the last manager Preller hired (and then gave an extension). More Rockstar Gm’ing
Allknowingone
It sounds like the job will go to Washington. The community has been lobbying hard and vice squad detectives say they need the overtime. If it is Washington he should get an opt out where he can manage the A’s if they do move to Las Vegas. Imagine that Wash as manager of a team in Vegas.
RyanD
I’m down with Wash. NOT down with Tingle berries.
bleacherbum
Me too.
Koamalu
Padres fans must feel like they have been lied to by the ownership. The choice the Padres are apparently considering right now is between a PR nightmare in Washington (Cocaine/extramarital affairs/sexual assault allegations) and Tingler who has no chance of changing the culture of the clubhouse because he walks in with no built in respect because of his lack of playing and managing experience. Neither is the experienced winner the Padres fans were promised.
Washington has been on winning teams as a player and manager, but has never won the big one and his cocaine addiction and extra marital affairs are not something that would indicate he is a winner in life nor that he has much integrity as a person. He is not someone I could respect as my manager as a player. Maybe as a 3B or bench coach, just not as the team leader. What message does it send that he has exhibited so many personal integrity issues and then be made the leader of the organization?
Tingler has no pedigree. He would have no standing in the clubhouse. You earn respect in a clubhouse and without it you are not in control. You can’t demand it just by the position you hold and Tingler has none coming in. The Padres are in must win mode and don’t have the time it would take for a guy like Tingler to earn his players respect and trust. He would be Green 2.0.
Today is a day when Angels fans are rejoicing and Padres fans are mourning.
lowtalker1
Quiet burns
padreforlife
Plus he quit on team
padreforlife
All managers start as nobodies. Dave Martinez had no experience now in WS. Rocco Baldelli
turned around Twins. Alex Cora won WS. Can Padres and Preller hire that guy is the ? and it’s a lame duck job Preller gets fired this new guy will be close to following him.
Koamalu
Dave Martinez played 16 years in the majors and had a decade as Maddon’s bench coach. He took over a Nationals team with the most veterans of any team in the league, not a bunch of kids like San Diego has.
Rocco Baldelli took over a team that had been in the playoffs a year before and the GM added multiple veteran players like Cruz, Gonzalez, Cron, Schoop, Odorizzi, and Pineda to cement an already talented young team together. The real test of his skills as a manager will be next season when most of those guys are gone. Lost to FA.
Alex Cora came into a team that had won the AL East the year before and then they added JD Martinez. Not hard to win with a team that talented. His sophomore season did not go as well.
The Padres situation is different. They have a very young team that quit on the manager late in the season. They need a manager that steps into the clubhouse with built in respect. Someone that has won as a manager and/or a player. Someone who walks in with his rings on to say here is the promised land and I can lead you there. That is not anyone they have interviewed yet.
padreforlife
Good points
nypadre66
Washington sounds like Hunter Biden. And some Ukrainian gas company paid him $50k to be on their board after all this was known and NOT because his dad was VP.
VegasSDfan
Is trump paying you to hold his wee wee?
lowtalker1
Just what they need. A 67 year old managing with his aarp card and a tinkler
Show Me Your Tatis
What is wrong with Mark Loretta, Joe Espada, Joe Girardi and Buck Showalter?
SDHotDawg
Preller was lying through his teeth when he said they were looking for a proven and experienced manager. Did he even bother interviewing Maddon, Showalter, or Girardi? I don’t think so.
He wants a puppet. It should be obvious.
Show Me Your Tatis
I don’t care if they are experienced. Hence my inclusion of Loretta and Espada. But I’m not a fan of Tingler or Wash.
imindless
By all recollection maddon wasnt interested in padres. His focus was on angels as soon as cubs fired him. So it was never on the table
brandons-3
Giradi and Showalter would probably want some or all control over the 25-man roster. And if push comes to shove will an owner rather keep its big name, high priced manager or the GM who has overseen multiple losing seasons? Preller would be hiring his successor if either of those two got the gig.
bleacherbum
Nice take Brandon, never looked at it that way but you’re spot on.
I feel as though Preller knows other organizations have strayed away from Washington for Managerial Vacancies so he can lowball him in salary and years/ agree to remaining in control of the 25 man roster. If he declines, pivot to Tingler. I don’t see a situation where he is brought back for second interview to be the “bench coach” as some have suspected. It’s either one or the other for the Manager in my opinion.
Koamalu
They would make much more sense than either of the two “finalists”.
xpensivewinos
Oh good, Padres ownership is involved. They’ll be sure to hire someone as incompetent as their GM……
padreforlife
What’s wrong with Girardi and Buck is they cost too much
dudeman40
Wash would be a good hire regardless of what all the haters say.
Tingler – would be just as happy for him to stick with the Rangers
rycm131
That baseball
TeeBallChampion
Between a rock and a hard place…
mrpadre19
Washington as Mgr……Tingler as Bench Coach.
Hired Gun 23
If it were up to me, Mark Loretta would be managing this team. Since it is not, RW is my choice. If Tingler was such a great choice, why isn’t he on other teams’ lists of candidates?
sufferforsnakes
A question, and please don’t rip me apart for it:
why hasn’t Brad Mills been mentioned as a candidate for any managerial openings?
padresfan6195
I vote for Matheny!!!
vicmcklocky
Agent -and SD resident- John Boggs should be embarrassed that his longtime client and recent AL MOY, Paul Molitor, has received zero consideration regarding the Padre job.
Hired Gun 23
Molitor is situated in the Midwest and I don’t think would move too far from there…
VegasSDfan
Hire both, coach and bench coach.
joblo
it’s gotta be Tingler. “The Tingler” was a bad Vincent Price hour movie.
nowheretogobutup
I’d say Washington even though I think he’s too old and tired. I like Loretta guys always fired up and was a team player. Congrats to the Angels, Maddon will more than likely bring them to the playoffs in 2020.
san diego4life
With what pitching will maddon take the angels to the playoffs?
Koamalu
Cole and Bumgarner or Wheeler makes the Angels a contender. Will Arte ok Eppler spending $52-53 million AAV on two starting pitchers? That remains to be seen.
san diego4life
There’s no guarantee those guys will even sign there . Bullpen ??? Where are you getting that ?
imindless
They have a good bullpen you clearly don’t watch them. Heres the list hansel, middleton returning from tj, buttery, noe rameriez, cam bedrodisian, justin anderson and luke bard.
The rest were trash, so they could use 1 or 2 more for stability but the core is there.
If you think patrick sandoval and jamie barria aren’t starters they can also move to the pen.
Really what angels need is 2 quality starters which they can get this offseason. Most games they got blown out because harvey and cahill and skaggs to a degree were throwing bp. More quality starts = more wins.
Koamalu
You are on a baseball rumors site and you don’t know that the Angels are the favorite to sign Cole?
Show Me Your Tatis
How are they the favorites? It’s a fool’s errand to predict where any free agent will go at this point. They got the $ and the need, sure. But milking the hometown narrative as opposed to paying him is going to go about as well as it did for the Yankees with Patrick Corbin last year.
Koamalu
Cole’s Astros teammates said he wants to play on the West Coast. he said his dream growing up was to play for the Angels, he lives in Orange County in the offseason. and the Angels have the payroll flexibility to sign him. Just like Maddon was the favorite to get the Angel’s manager job, they are the favorites to sign Cole.
The question is not if he wants to play there or if the Angels have the money, its if Arte will let Eppler do his job and get Cole signed for us.
Show Me Your Tatis
Replace Gerrit Cole with Patrick Corbin and the Angels with the Yankees and you got a comment that was posted at least 100 times a year ago.
imindless
Your missing the point tatis lol, desperate times call deseperate measures
Show Me Your Tatis
My what is missing the point?
Koamalu
Padres have reportedly asked for permission to interview Joe Espada, Astros bench coach and Josh Bard, Yankees bench coach and former Padres player. Unless its a video interview, neither of those will happen for at least 5 days.
The plot thickens and still doesn’t involve interviewing any experienced, winning managers.
Show Me Your Tatis
I don’t see that anywhere else. Hoping it’s true tho. Espata comes from an organization that knows what it’s doing and I definitely liked Bard when he was in SD. Would gladly take one of them over any of the guys I’ve heard mentioned this week.
VegasSDfan
Bard, the guy with the slow pitch arm?
Koamalu
LA sports radio last night and today.
bleacherbum
Who was the reporter? Jerry Hairston Jr? I haven’t heard anything about those two candidates anywhere either. Interesting if true. I would love Espada. However I do have a strong feeling Preller might choose Tingler.
san diego4life
You should take over for Kevin acee . He hasn’t reported that and he’s in deep with that Padres
Show Me Your Tatis
No one has
Koamalu
Can I ask you a question? When has Acee ever gotten a rumor right? He gets it right once the signing is done, but the Padres and in the past the Chargers used him as a source of disinformation to throw people off the trail.
bleacherbum
Acee was the same way when AJ Smith/ Norv Turner we’re in charge of the Chargers. Never correct on rumors. Now it seems like he is operating in the same manor ever since covering the Padres. Seems like he only puts out what’s convenient for Fowler/Seidler and Preller. The way this organization is ran makes me angry as a life long Padre fan.
I will lose my mind if Tingler is hired. Horrible to promise the fans a proven winner and then bring one of AJ’s old buddies in from Texas.
Show Me Your Tatis
FWIW as much as people love to bang the “Preller Rangers cronyism” drum on here I feel like it almost never actually happens. All of the front office guys he brought in were from other orgs and only trades he’s made with the Rangers were the Will Venable trade and the Brett Nicholas trade.
bleacherbum
Yeah that is true. He has swayed left when everyone thinks he is going right. Quieter than predicted Winter Meetings followed by Trade Deadlines more recently have shown either the growth from the rebuild or the reluctantly the organization has to part with its prospects. Depends on what lenses fans choose to look through.
I’ve supported Preller through his whole tenure with open arms/ an open mind. I’ve “trusted the process” This decision will go a long way in whether or not I support him going forward. If this is indeed “His Decision” As Fowler stated. Preller needs to get this right.
SDHotDawg
Didn’t he hire some people from the Rangers scouting dept when he first got hired?
padreforlife
Dennis Lin also they are shills for Padres have zero stones to criticize team
Allknowingone
What truly makes no sense is Mickey Callaway is not being considered. They want a young guy, but a guy with experience- Callaway would be the perfect fit and he did finish 10 games over .500 last year and is over .500 for his career.
The Mets hired a rookie manager and then got upset they hired a rookie manager. Callaway was given an awful team in 2018 and still improved it from 2017. In 2019 he finished 10 games over .500 and kept his team in it until the end. The big knock on Callaway was inexperience- people basically felt Joe Girardi or an experienced manager would have won more games. This can be said with most first and second year managers.
The bottom line is Callaway improved the Mets from 2017 in 2018 and again in 2019. He kept his team in it and Jacob DeGrom went to another level when Callaway got there. Callaway is not Girardi, Maddon or Showalter… yet. So far he has done nothing to embarrass himself and his first two years are very similar to Showalter 76-86, 88-74 Showalter 75-87, 86-76 for Callaway with neither going to the playoffs.
Callaway would be a great fit for the Padres- he is that young guy but has also proven he can manage in the big leagues. He is still learning and honestly the Padres are about a year away. This makes a lot more sense than hiring another rookie manager who may not pan out. What Callaway gives the Padres no other candidate does is proof that he has not failed at managing.
Whatever team gets him will be lucky. BVW simply wanted his guy- the plan was for Callaway to grow with what would have been a rebuilding Mets club when he was hired with an eye on the playoffs in 2020.
imindless
Padres are much more than a year away lol, saddled with the contracts of will myers, eric hosmer, and manny machado they almost have no wiggle room to improve. Outside of paddack who do they have that is good? Outside of tatis positionally who do they have? You think thats even close to the dodgers depth and with the potential to add rendon to a 106 win team? Thats a 36 win gap lol no chance.
padreforlife
Bingo can Tatis learn to field and stay healthy before pedestal status
LosPobres1904
On paper you guy’s are a power house but are the Braves of now.
Allknowingone
I think they will contend for the second Wild card next year. I think they will trade Yates and get a nice return.
Show Me Your Tatis
If they are contending you can completely forget about trading Yates.
bleacherbum
Correct. Not to mention, with Stammen departing in Free Agency the Padres are going to have to look shore up the bullpen not deplete it anymore.
Koamalu
If they trade their closer, how will they contend? That makes no sense.
padreforlife
Because they cost $ that’s why
Marcus was already taken
Well this is a risky move, but I hope he’ll do well
lowtalker1
You say favorite is tinkler
Mlb . Com says Washington is favorite
lowtalker1
Plus no one likes that Arby’s eating dbag
padreforlife
They were never hiring Washington way too much baggage just doing him a favor keeping his name out there. Tingler is guy they can fire will make nothing
Psychguy
All I can say is:
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bleacherbum
Yikes, I want to throw up. Padres are shooting themselves in the foot by hiring Andy Green 2.0 in Tingler. Ugly.
Psychguy
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420ambassador
might as well just hire buster olney or tim kurkjian for manager instead
lowtalker1
Vote for vinny
Show Me Your Tatis
Vote for Mike Embleton or Richard Burns XD
420ambassador
#hechtorweriot
lowtalker1
Speaking of koamalu there he is below
Show Me Your Tatis
Relax people. Nothing is official yet (or really even unofficial). Remember that Andy Green wasn’t even mentioned once until it was announced that he got the job.
Koamalu
The latest news is funny. On the Padres site it says Wash is the favorite, Heyman says Tingler is the favorite, and LA sports radio is saying the Padres have asked for permission to talk to the Yankees Bench coach and the Astros bench coach.
lowtalker1
Shut up burns
Koamalu
What are you talking about?
lowtalker1
Go troll somewhere else.
lowtalker1
We know who you are and we know all of your alts. Do us a favor and leave us alone
padreforlife
Who cares anyway it’s thankless job dude will be fired 1-2 years when new GM wants his own manager
99socalfrc
Padres had the third highest attendance growth of any team in 2019. Now they will thank those fans by hiring Green 2.0?
Again, how is Preller still standing? Fowler seems to have a real passion to win, and seems willing to put his $$$ were his mouth is. Yet he keeps allowing Preller to steer the bus right into a ditch.
bleacherbum
Season ticket reps sent me an e-mail today regarding the status of my interest for the 20’ season. My response was simple, “I am waiting for the decision on who will run this ball club, if it is indeed Jayce Tingler then please don’t bother reaching back out.” Got no response, however I don’t expect one. Ownership is making their bed with this hire, hope they are ready for the backlash if it indeed happens.
Padre Mark
Bleacher bum. I had the same thing happen to me today and replied with the same response you did.
bleacherbum
Nice, I love it. Hold this organization accountable, it’s all we have left with the Chargers stolen from us.
When the owner comes out and says “We are going to chose from a list of qualified candidates with post season experience”, while on the flagship radio station, he better hold true to that statement. The fans deserve more than a replica of the same manager we had to suffer watching for the last 4 years.
This team is ready to win now. Ron Washington should be our next skipper. We are starving for a championship, something he can relate to being one out away from a championship.
Padre Mark
Well said! Hope we get him!
padreforlife
Team is ready to win now they just lost 90 games lol
padreforlife
Ready to win now get real
padreforlife
Fowler owns 3% of team 100% of dinner plate. What they say is meaningless what they do is what counts
Phillies2017
I love Washington and was really hoping Philly would hire him dating back to after MacKanin was fired
I hope he lands a managing job, because he certainly deserves it.
lowtalker1
Got cocaine? Should be Washington’s pitch.
padreforlife
That’s cold Snow is not doing that anymore
Hired Gun 23
Tingler is a mistake…
xpensivewinos
If Preller and Padres ownership want to hire him, then we know one thing for certain……..he’s garbage.
Daver520
ESPN has confirmed that former Met Wally Backman has interviewed this week for both the Mets and Padre openings
padreforlife
He’s not getting job even though he’s not bad candidate another baggage guy