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Padres Expected To Name Interim Manager Today

By Steve Adams | June 16, 2015 at 9:54am CDT

The Padres are expected to name an interim manager that will hold the position through the end of the season today, reports Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union Tribune. More than likely, it’ll be an internal candidate, Lin adds. He hears that Triple-A manager Pat Murphy and bench coach Dave Roberts (who managed last night’s contest in Black’s absence) are the two likeliest candidates. First-year hitting coach Mark Kotsay has been discussed internally, he adds, but Kotsay is viewed as a less likely candidate.

Both Will Carroll of Fanduel and Keith Olbermann of ESPN heard yesterday that Murphy was on his way to San Diego, though Olbermann’s source indicated that it was possible that Murphy could become either the bench coach or the manager (Twitter links). Jon Heyman of CBS Sports writes that some view Murphy as the favorite to succeed Black, at least for the remainder of the season, and he will indeed be interviewed (or, perhaps, was already interviewed last night). Heyman writes that general manager A.J. Preller is said to want a manager with a fiery personality, and the Padres recently declined to let Murphy interview for a big league coaching position with the Brewers, perhaps indicating larger plans for him.

While Lin’s report makes Kotsay appear unlikely, Joel Sherman of the New York Post did tweet yesterday that the most common names he’s heard from executives outside of the Padres organization are Kotsay and Murphy. Scott Miller of FOX Sports Southwest and Bleacher Report added third base coach Glenn Hoffman’s name into the mix as well.

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  1. Rally Weimaraner

    10 years ago

    Padres made a mistake, they are going to have a hard time finding someone better than Bud Black. Not to mention a new manager is hardly ever able to significantly improve the performance of the exact same roster.

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  2. stl_cards16 2

    10 years ago

    Come on Steve, get the post up about the Cardinals being investigated. I can’t wait to read the comments.

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  3. Ray Ray

    10 years ago

    Isn’t Dave Roberts already the interim manager? He is managing the team before they hire someone else. So I guess we now have the interim interim manager as a position as well. The guy who manages before the guy is hired to hold the place of the guy that is eventually going to get the job. That just sounds like a bad Monty Python sketch.

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