The San Francisco Giants are filling their managerial emptiness by changing one former Red Sox participant with one other.
After firing Gabe Kapler with three video games left within the common season, Bob Melvin will depart San Diego for San Francisco. The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly broke the information on Tuesday afternoon, two days after the outlet reported the Padres had granted the Giants permission to interview Melvin, who had one 12 months remaining on his contract.
Melvin, who turns 62 this week, solely managed in San Diego for 2 seasons, however his departure isn’t precisely a shock. Increasing tensions between him and normal supervisor A.J. Preller made headlines all through the 2023 season; that the Padres had been prepared to let a National League West rival interview and rent their supervisor signifies a manager-GM relationship eroded to the purpose of no return. Preller will now seek for his seventh Padres supervisor in 9 years.
It’s additionally a homecoming for the three-time Manager of the Year, who grew up within the Bay Area and managed the Oakland A’s from 2011-21. In 20 seasons as a Major League supervisor, Melvin has a 1,517-1,425 file, with eight journeys to the postseason.
Melvin, who caught for the 1993 Red Sox throughout his 11-year enjoying profession, wasn’t the one former Red Sox catcher interviewed for the Giants gig. The 12 months Melvin performed in Boston, the Minnesota Twins drafted a star catcher who opted to complete faculty and re-enter the draft in 1994. The Seattle Mariners made an similar choice in 1994, and in 1997, traded a younger Jason Varitek to Boston.
Varitek has been on the managerial monitor for many of the final decade, with the Mariners interviewing him in 2015. The longtime Red Sox captain is a 12 months right into a three-year contract extension as a member of the teaching employees, however the membership granted the Giants permission to talk with him, which they did by cellphone final Friday.
“He will manage in the big leagues,” Alex Cora advised reporters in February 2021, after Varitek turned a full-time member of the teaching employees. “I think, with time, somebody’s going to give him a chance and he’s going to kill it, he’s going to be great.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com