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Padres Name Andy Green Manager

By Steve Adams | October 29, 2015 at 5:42pm CDT

5:42pm: The Padres have announced the hiring, making it official. It appears that Green has received a three-year deal, MLB.com’s Corey Brock tweets.

11:53am: Although the Padres were said to be down to Ron Gardenhire and Rick Sofield in their search for a new manager, it appears they’ve made a last-minute audible, as Bleacher Report’s Scott Miller is now reporting that Diamondbacks third base coach Andy Green will be San Diego’s new skipper (Twitter link). The Padres have issued a press release to inform the media that they’ll formally announce a new manager at 3pm PT. (San Diego did not name Green in the release). Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune tweets that Gardenhire was the runner-up to Green, who was offered the position late last night.

Andy Green

The 38-year-old Green will instantly become one of the youngest managers in baseball (though Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash is still younger). That’s not to say, however, that he comes without managerial experience. To the contrary, Green has four seasons of minor league managerial experience in spite of his young age. From 2011-14, he managed in the D-Backs’ minor league system, including a pair of postseason berths for the Double-A Mobile Bay Bears in 2013-14. Green was named Southern League Manager of the Year in each of those two seasons.

Green played parts of four seasons in the Major Leagues, with his fourth and final appearance coming in 2009 when he saw action in just four games with the Mets. A second baseman/third baseman by trade, Green appeared in 140 big league games and received 265 plate appearances, though he batted just .200/.282/.265 in that short time. The former 24th-round pick was a strong minor league hitter in parts of 10 seasons (.295/.375/.444) and also had a bit of experience in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball as well.

In addition to Green, Gardenhire and Sofield, the Padres are known to have interviewed D-Backs Triple-A manager Phil Nevin, former Major Leaguer and veteran winter ball manager Alex Cora, Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach, former big league pitcher Tom Gordon, former Angels assistant GM Scott Servais (who was instead hired to become the new manager of the Mariners) and current Padres hitting coach Mark Kotsay.

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28 Comments

  1. bbatardo

    10 years ago

    Didn’t see that one coming.

    Reply
    • leftcoastbaseball

      10 years ago

      Seems like no one did. I find it funny that the article states the Padres made a last minute audible, and doesn’t recognize the possibility that the media may have had it wrong all along.

      Reply
  2. John B. 3

    10 years ago

    If this is true, I have no positive opinion because I know nothing about this guy. I was hoping for Gardenhire because of proven track record. It seems like the new Padres manager should not have come with a question mark. We have enough of those already.

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  3. BarrelMan

    10 years ago

    I guess Gardenhire will just have to go fishing again.

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  4. TJECK109

    10 years ago

    So the Padres appeared be heading in one direction only to go in another…. Reflective of their entire season!

    Reply
  5. YourDaddy

    10 years ago

    I was pretty sure that Gardenhire would not accept a position in which he was not making the day to day lineup calls. It makes sense that a guy like Green or Sofield would be the hire because they would be more likely to allow the FO complete control of who plays and when. Its too bad. Pretty much ensures losing until Preller is gone.

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    • rdavis1149

      10 years ago

      I think that it is going to work out for the best and Preller is going to continue to be an aggressive GM with the team’s best interests at hand.

      Reply
      • YourDaddy

        10 years ago

        SO what you are really saying is the Padres will continue to win 75-76 games a season as long as Preller is there and continue to spend more money than they have on the past without any different results?

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    • disgruntledreader 2

      10 years ago

      If you never wrote anything about baseball again, you’d get as many things right about the business and game from this day forward as you have right up until this moment. That’s impressive.

      Reply
      • YourDaddy

        10 years ago

        I love your post. You tried to insult me and said absolutely nothing about the game or the post that you are commenting on. Brilliant job.

        Reply
    • RedRooster

      10 years ago

      Preller doesn’t have the team’s best interests at hand hahaha. He just pushes a bunch of buttons and hopes that it works out.

      Reply
      • rdavis1149

        10 years ago

        Better to stay positive than to cry about everything that goes wrong

        Reply
      • YourDaddy

        10 years ago

        I think Preller believes its the same as his fantasy baseball team. That’s the only way to explain the heavily right handed pitching and hitting and defensively challenged team he put together to play in Petco Park.

        Reply
  6. RedRooster

    10 years ago

    What does Gardy have to do to get some love around here? He was passed up by everyone last offseason and now the only team without a manager is the Dodgers and I don’t think he’s a candidate for them.

    Reply
  7. 8791Slegna

    10 years ago

    Well, at least this guy has some managing experience, but more credible choices would’ve been Joey Cora, Rich Renteria, Sandy Alomar Jr., Dave Roberts, Dave Martinez, Ron Washington, Dusty Baker. Minorities need not apply, I guess, except to be the token interview. But don’t mine me. Keep on pretending that nothing is wrong.

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    • sorayablue

      10 years ago

      1000 to 1 that the Dodgers hire … another white guy. Sucks to be a minority in baseball, being used to fulfill an interview requirement.

      Reply
    • Ray Ray

      10 years ago

      Of that list of seven, three of those minorities have had full time big league managing jobs (one had multiple jobs). Two others had interim jobs. So it seems like a majority of those minorities aren’t really suffering as much as you think. But I guess some people don’t like the facts to get in the way of their being offended.

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      • YourDaddy

        10 years ago

        I’m curious, how does that explain the complete dearth of managers and GMs that are minorities as of today?

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        • Ray Ray

          10 years ago

          Perhaps the fact that MLB does not a quota system. There are no such things as token jobs and whomever does best in interviews gets hired. Skin color shouldn’t matter as much as ideas and qualifications. But apparently it does to you. I hope one day you will stop seeing people based on their race and start listening to their ideas instead.

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    • thecoffinnail

      10 years ago

      Dusty Baker is not an option for any team that wants to keep their pitchers off the DL and Washington up and quit the Rangers when they started losing. Definitely not the attitude that you want in sports. Dave Roberts had a game as manager last year and I am sure Preller would have hired him then had he been the right man for the job. I was able to shoot down half of your outrage off the top of my head. I am sure minorities were given their fair share. This is 2015 after all not 1957. Anyway, I think you should channel your outrage at not having any women as managers. They don’t even get interviews!!

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      • YourDaddy

        10 years ago

        I have not noticed any women actually playing in minor league or major league baseball, but pretty much all of these guys have. That could be the reason they are not interviewed, they are not part of the game at all in that respect. Of all jobs in baseball, women make up 30% of the workforce.

        There are only 2 minorities (Al Avila and Dave Stewart) that are GMs and no Managers in MLB and only 6 managers in minor league ball even though they make up 41.2% of the game at the MLB level as players.

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        • sirrichard1975

          10 years ago

          Fredi Gonzalez is a manager

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        • Ray Ray

          10 years ago

          The percentage of the game that minorities make up is completely irrelevant when discussing the percentage of front office and management positions. Current players are not getting those jobs. What you need to look at is the percentage of back up catchers from 20 years ago. Those are the guys that are trained to get big league manager jobs.

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  8. jman329

    10 years ago

    Hmmmm

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  9. Titan

    10 years ago

    They already had Murphy on board…. Why get rid of him and hire another guy with only minor league experience? I guess Preller had to blame it on someone…. Black and Murphy took one for the team so Preller could keep his job!

    Reply
  10. TheMichigan

    10 years ago

    Not to late for the Tigers to ditch Ausmus and get gardenhire

    Reply
  11. RyanR

    10 years ago

    I was hoping for Ron Washington.

    Reply
  12. stuartshaffer

    10 years ago

    Green might fail as a major league manager, but from Preller’s point of view, he makes perfect sense. He’s Preller’s dugout doppelganger: an energetic 38 year old diamond rat.

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