The Padres will interview Carlos Mendoza this weekend as part of their managerial search, reports Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Yankee bench coach has also sat down with the Mets and Guardians about their respective vacancies.
According to Acee, Mendoza is the fourth candidate to meet with San Diego brass since Bob Melvin left the organization. Internal options Ryan Flaherty and Mike Shildt have already interviewed. The other appears to be Angels infield coordinator Benji Gil, as Acee notes the Friars were impressed by Gil during a sit-down earlier in the week. Former Angels skipper Phil Nevin is reportedly of interest, although it’d seem he has yet to officially interview.
Mendoza, 43, has never managed in the majors. The Venezuela native managed for two seasons in the low minors with the Yankees in the early 2010s. He has otherwise worked in various coaching capacities for New York since concluding his minor league playing career in 2009. He joined Aaron Boone’s MLB staff as infield coach going into the 2018 campaign and has held the bench coach title for the last four seasons. In addition to Cleveland and the Mets, Mendoza has earned managerial consideration from the White Sox and Red Sox in previous offseasons and from the Giants this fall before they hired Melvin.
San Diego is one of six teams with a current vacancy. The Angels, Astros and Brewers are also presently without a bench boss. Acee writes that the Padres could tab their new skipper within the next week.
Mendoza for Soto. Sounds like a fair trade to me.
No Frazier, no deal!
Shildt’s Creek or the Mendoza Line?
I like Mike but maybe Mendoza joins the staff!
Three first time managers of the four they’ve interviewed. Hmmmm…..
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I will never take this job.
Can we say…cheap?
(Not counting the ostrich, of course)
Preller said in his press conference on the day after Melvin was allowed to leave that they had already interviewed 2 people that day and were going to interview Flaherty by that Friday. Then they interviewed Gil this week. Now Mendoza. That will be 5 minimum. Acee is wrong again. At least he is keeping his streak of misinformation going.
Another Acee doozy
But he was the harborer of everything truthful when he backed up the planned $50m loan.
4 or 5 ? Really ? That’s an issue for you ? Seriously, you folks need to exit your body and read your media spite from some other headspace. Maybe then you will see how pathetic it is.
What are u a puppet of a UT beat writer?
No I’m not.
Good, I’m not either
What is the issue is his consistent misinformation and innuendos that lack in facts or named sources.
The Padres took out a loan at the end of September after player payroll was done. The loan had nothing to do with that.
Maybe you should read Acee consistently and see how pathetic he really is.
Hire Benji Gil.
We’ll see if he jumps over in a lateral-type maneuver…? I could see IF or Bench
Wouldn’t you? The Angels have no shot at winning in 2024. The Padres do.
The interview consists of only one question. AJ asks, “Will you do exactly as I say and never challenge my authority”?
A HOF manager like Bruce Bochy would never work for a guy like Preller.
If Schildt was that kind of guy, he would still be coaching in St. Louis.
This should be a Mendoza line for coaching
How much can the Padres afford to pay a manager, given the fact that they’ve had to borrow $50 million to make 2023 expenses? I’d do it for $500,000 per season. That could save them some serious money.
This is a very ignorant comment. Corporations take out loans all the time to cover costs for various reasons.
Yes. Up to a third on MLB teams take out loans. I suspect the loss TV revenue due to the Diamond Vision fiasco and not making the expanded postseason put a dent in their projected revenue.
I suspect the Padres spending like a drunk sailor on shore leave is the culprit. But you guys can think this is normal if you want. Just don’t be surprised when they trade Soto and slash payroll to $200 million or below.
From Ken Rosenthal’s article in The Athletic: “If the question is, despite all that revenue growth, why would we need to be borrowing more money? I mean, you can connect those dots,” said a Padres official who was not authorized to speak publicly. “The levels of payroll that we’ve been at have probably reasonably been in excess of what we could have supported, but it was part of the larger plan.”
If the Padres won two more games and made the playoffs, and their TV deal didn’t implode, they could probably maintain a top-5 MLB payroll.
Now they’ll have to settle for a 200M top- 10 MLB payroll.
The sky is not falling.