San Diego Padres reportedly hire Bob Melvin away from Oakland A’s

Melvin will take over a gifted, high-priced and just lately disappointing Padres roster constructed by a frenetic normal supervisor, A.J. Preller, who had till this level targeted largely on inexperienced managers with whom he had historical past. Preller fired his longtime colleague Jayce Tingler, with whom he had additionally labored within the Texas Rangers’ participant growth system, shortly after the tip of the common season.