The Twins have announced a pair of coaching hires, bringing on former Padres’ manager Jayce Tingler as their new bench coach and officially announcing the previously-reported hiring of David Popkins as hitting coach.
Tingler is coming off a tumultuous season in San Diego, his second campaign as the bench boss for the Padres. Things seemed to be going well after the first year, as 2020 saw the Padres go 37-23 and then qualify for the expanded 2020 playoffs, eventually falling to the rival Dodgers in the NLDS. The subsequent months only heightened enthusiasm for 2021, as the club made various high-profile additions, including Blake Snell, Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove. The beginning of 2021 seemed to be going according to plan, as they hovered in the divisional race with the Dodgers and Giants through the first few months of the season. However, the second half saw the team undergo a precipitous slide, falling out of the playoff race and even below .500, along with reports that Tingler had lost the respect of the players and control of the clubhouse. Shortly after the season ended, Tingler was fired and eventually replaced by Bob Melvin, whom the Padres lured away from the Athletics.
It had been previously reported that the Padres offered him an opportunity to stay in some capacity, but he will instead head to the Twin Cities for 2022. It was announced in September that the previous bench coach, Bill Evers, would be retiring after the 2021 season, creating the vacancy that Tingler will now be filling.
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very interesting/intriguing hire, wonder if they are preparing for an alternate Rocco-less timeline
Baldelli to the A’s?
Here in the Bay Area they say A’s new manager would be Ron Washington…
A 3 way managerial trade? I like it.
Tingler didn’t fare so well and in SD. Rocco is on hot seat with the fans for sure but I don’t think the front office feels the same. I’d say the team performed a bit better than the could have given injuries and illnesses and the terrible pitching roster that was constructed by Falvey and Levine. Proven players got hurt or underperformed, pitching was terrible and defense was about as good as the Bad News Bears for most of the year. Throw in the necessity to rely on rookies to fill roster holes so how could anyone expect them to win?
Tingler was a flat-out terrible manager. A lot of that can be attributed to Preller micromanaging the lineups and pitching decisions, but a lot of his in-game moves were just dumb.
Every manager according to Padre fan stinks it’s your mo
@padreforlife: I think generally most fans think managers make terrible in game decisions or are terrible at managing the bullpen.
tbh i think tingler got fired not because he can’t mange but because the team got away from him and some “bad luck” with injuries and players slumping didn’t help but i honestly believe he lost the clubhouse and when you lose that it’s almost impossible to get it back.
@refereemn …
Only when it becomes a pattern. Apparently, you don’t watch much Padre baseball.
Tingler is supposedly a good baseball guy. Obviously not in handling a pitching staff or running the hot bat out there. Maybe he should be coordinating the instruction in the minors and not coaching benches.
I think the bigger knock on him is that no one in the clubhouse in SD respected him. The veterans thought there was a void in leadership with him as manager and it was creating a toxic situation. As a bench coach I think he’s less likely to have that scrutiny on him since he isn’t the ultimate boss.
He seems like a good baseball guy and I didn’t think his in game decisions were that bad. Sometimes the bullpen usage was odd, but you could make that compliant about most managers and I think in his situation that was partially the result of a lack of depth with his pitching staff suffering so many injuries.
Aside from one short season stint managing a rookie AZL team, Tingler had NO managing experience.
out of the Friar pan and Twinto the fire
So bad, it’s good. Bravo.
I’m sure his Baldellis are Tingling
Does this mean the Twins will ‘Let the Kids Play!’? Hopefully, Jingler will wear a uniform while he’s with Minnesota, and not pajamas or whatever the hell he wore in San Diego.
Think it MLB rule. Must wear pajamas. Not jacket. Can’t look too masculine in dugout ⚾️
Lol where he belongs
Ditto too funny!
That is the job he should have had with the Padres. He was not ready to be a manager. Best of luck to him.
Guys struggled, rotation was decimated by injuries. Scherzer trade killed morale. Expectations were high. Team started hot then things happened. He was behind the eight ball. Things got out of control and he was on a sinking ship so to speak. He received too much of the blame.
We barely had 5 Starting pitchers to start the season, an no depth behind them. Can we drop the injury excuse?
While injuries did factor in, it was a lack of presence or usage of pitching depth, no acquisition of a established starter at the All Star break, and a post all-star break swoon that did them in.
I mean, Vince Velasquez and Jake Arrieta combined for 8 starts and you know things are bad when you have them taking the mound…
AJ Preller keeps getting a pass… he gave Tingler Valasquez and Arrieta
Snell showed the reason the Rays were willing to move him…
etc etc
All that said Tingler seemed about as inspiring as a pickle
Preller made two uninspiring manager hires trying to find the next Young Turk… and failed miserably.. story is he also interferes
I’m guessing Seidler told him no more Rangers buddies or first time managers you can control and he went out and got Melvin… a couple of pitching moves and a splash in the OF this off season and they can make a legit run
Puppets are never “inspiring.” But that’s what Preller wanted with both Tingler and Green. And that’s what he got.
Good manager doesn’t let a non-trade kill team morale.
But good GM doesn’t let proceedings leak out to the public for this very reason.
He was a puppet, not a manager. Just like Green. And he was a scapegoat. He had no authirity, therefore, he had no respect.
Now you know who will be replacing Baldelli when he is fired by the All-Star Break.Good luck with Tingler LOL.
I still think Green is/was more qualified to be ML manager than Tingler.