Bob Melvin Leaving the A’s to take over as the Padres new manager

[soxhop411]

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Bob Melvin will be the new manager of the San Diego Padres, source confirms to ESPN. He’s signing a three-year deal and will leave Oakland, as @AJCassavell reported. Melvin is regarded as one of the best managers in baseball, and he’s heading to manage Fernando Tatis Jr and more.

I didn’t even know he was available!

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Wow. The A’s just exercised his option for 2022 during the season and he’s one of the highest paid managers. The Padres must be paying him a fortune.

 

[Ale Xander]

View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1453875605745848322


I didn’t even know he was available!

Neither did the A’s

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Good move for all involved but the A's

 

[LogansDad]

Wow, this really sucks for the A's.

 

[bosockboy]

Beane will hire Shildt by the weekend.

 

[the1andonly3003]

thought the A's didn't believe in paying their managers

 

[barbed wire Bob]

thought the A's didn't believe in paying their managers

Apparently they don’t.

As to why the Athletics would allow such a successful manager to leave, Bob Nightengale of USA Today suggests a financial motive. (Twitter link.) He reports that Melvin was making “about 4MM a year” and that the club intends to slash payroll for 2022. MLBTR’s Steve Adams recently looked into the fact that the club has a tremendous arbitration class this winter that will push the organization into uncomfortable financial territory, and the fact that they are seemingly willing to let a fruitful decade-long partnership with their manager come to end for a few million in cash savings certainly casts an even darker cloud over that situation.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/bob-melvin-reportedly-agrees-to-be-padres-manager.html

On a side note, if the A’s are slashing payroll then there might be a few opportunities for Bloom to pick up.

 

[RSN Diaspora]

So, they're moving to Vegas aren't they?

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

So, they're moving to Vegas aren't they?

They miss sharing a house with the Raiders already?

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Ron Washington seems a likely target for the A's, once he's done windmilling Braves runners around third base this season. If Moneyball has taught us anything, he's certainly got a better relationship with Billy Beane already than Philip Seymour Hoffman ever did:

View: https://youtu.be/vyvu1nWjOlI?t=90