Quote from TatisJr on October 21, 2019, 11:23 pm

I read an article about Eric Chavez giving Ron Washington his Gold Glove award for his time spent improving Chavez glove work in Oakland. If Wash is the hire and Tingler isn’t allowed to leave Texas, I wonder if Chavez will be a candidate for bench coach? The two seem to have close ties and reports had Chavez interviewing with the Padres.

Quote from JasonE135 on October 22, 2019, 12:06 am

Quote from TatisJr on October 21, 2019, 11:23 pm

I read an article about Eric Chavez giving Ron Washington his Gold Glove award for his time spent improving Chavez glove work in Oakland. If Wash is the hire and Tingler isn’t allowed to leave Texas, I wonder if Chavez will be a candidate for bench coach? The two seem to have close ties and reports had Chavez interviewing with the Padres.

Chavez has always been a master with the glove, from his days as a SS in little league. Love to see Eric come home.

Quote from fenn68 on October 23, 2019, 7:50 am

David Ross (no managerial experience) apparently is being hired to replace Joe Maddon (tons of managerial experience) who was hired to replace Brad Asmus (limited managerial experience). The pendulum keeps on swinging between the "old" and the "new".

Apparently the Cubs ... who think themselves a legit contender going forward .... feel going with a novice manager on a team of veterans will work. The LAA believing they can be a contender feel the veteran leadership for a team of veterans will work.

Then, as of now, the Padres debate between the two polar opposites in Washington and Tingler ... probably no right choice.

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Did hear some commentary that the final two candidates being known to Preller on a working basis from Texas make a lot of sense if the Padres want to start winning quickly. They both apparently will work well with Preller and the front office Preller has created ... thus minimizing and start up friction or the need to develop a learning curve in the early months. At least for debate purposes with Fowler ... both "old" and "new" are in play.

Quote from TatisJr on October 23, 2019, 8:27 am

Heyman is reporting the Padres recently met with Mark Loretta. Loretta certainly has all the ingredients to be a good manger.

Quote from fenn68 on October 23, 2019, 8:40 am

Quote from TatisJr on October 23, 2019, 8:27 am

Heyman is reporting the Padres recently met with Mark Loretta. Loretta certainly has all the ingredients to be a good manger.

Can speculate on potential dominos .... other than Loretta's ties with the Padres ownership / front office ... he was hired by Maddon as the bench coach ... candidate for the Cubs managerial post but lost out to Ross from the Cubs front office ... don't know his contract situation with the Cubs post-Maddon but could his interview for manager of the Padres be a ground setting discussion for him being bench coach if the hire Washington.

No idea his relationship with Ross but a toss-up on his desire to remain bench coach in an organization that bypassed him or Ross' desire to go a different way for his bench coach.

Quote from Henry Silvestre on October 23, 2019, 8:44 am

Have a feeling its going to be Loretta, sort of a cross between Tingler and Washington and a Maddon disciple... Maybe with one or both Tingler and Washington joining him... Otherwise Pads would have announced Manager already

Quote from 3fingersplit on October 23, 2019, 9:26 am

Does it really matter ?

The next one will be fired just like the last one and the one before that and the one before that and that and that......if you don't have the players / Pitchers / Hitters you are just asking a manager to make chicken salad out of chicken s#@&

Quote from MrPadre19 on October 23, 2019, 9:56 am

Obviously the thought is that we finally do have the pieces to put it all together and win.

So "if" that is true this may be the most important Managerial hire in some time for S.D.

I'm curious if it really is now between Fowlers choice(Wash) and Prellers(Tingler).

Would be interesting if they can't come to an agreement and decide on Loretta instead.

I am still holding out hope for Wash as Mgr. and Tingler as bench coach so we can have both.

Of course my preference of Wash as Mgr. is solely based on the current rumor that these two are the only ones still being truly considered.

 

 

Quote from BoosterSD on October 23, 2019, 10:02 am

We have players; depending on who you talk to, that should make us close. If you take a look at the Nats; who have just won game 1, we have some similarities and some differences.

WAS INF - Rendon, Turner, Dozier, and Adams. SD INF - Machado, Tatis Jr, Kinsler, Hosmer. Machado and Tatis are very similar to Rendon and Turner. Need better performance from 2B than Kinsler, Urias could fix that, and Hosmer needs to perform better than he did vs LHP.

WAS C - Gomes. SD C - Hedges. This will improve via more playing time for Mejia.

WAS OF - Soto, Robles, Eaton. SD OF - Myers, Margot, Renfroe. This is a BIG deficiency, THIS is where we need either a manager that can get Myers/Renfroe to pull his head out of his butt, or a better player. Can Margot ever put together a full season.

WAS SP - Scherzer, Corbin, Strasburg, Sanchez. SD SP - Not there yet; however, you would think that a healthy Lamet and Richards, and a non limited season from Paddock helps gets a lot closer than the start of 2019.

So yes, in the case of SP and the OF its the players; however, can a good manager get better/more consistent performances from some of those players? And then can AJP bring in a couple of additions to supplement the weak spots on the roster? So maybe the manager is more important than we think in this stage of the SD turnover.