The Padres have employed Scott Servais as a particular assistant of their baseball operations and participant improvement departments, The Athletic’s Dennis Lin studies. It represents Servais’ first job since he was fired because the Mariners’ supervisor again in August.
Whereas Servais is greatest recognized for his 9 seasons as Seattle’s supervisor and his 11-year taking part in profession, Servais additionally has loads of front-office expertise. His Mariners tenure was preceded by 4 seasons because the Angels’ assistant GM, and was the Rangers’ assistant of participant improvement from 2006-10. As Lin notes, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller additionally labored within the Texas entrance workplace when Servais was there, plus Preller interviewed Servais as a managerial candidate in the course of the 2015-16 offseason earlier than Servais took the job in Seattle.
Servais mentioned in August that he hoped to maintain managing sooner or later, although his title apparently wasn’t linked to any of the managerial vacancies that arose this previous fall. This place in San Diego doesn’t essentially change Servais’ purpose of getting again into a giant league dugout, because it permits him to remain related to the sport in one other capability.
Servais went 680-642 because the Mariners’ skipper, and ended the franchise’s decades-long playoff drought by main the 2022 M’s to a wild card berth. That 12 months’s Mariners crew then beat the Blue Jays within the Wild Card Collection earlier than falling to the Astros within the ALDS. With expectations now raised, the Mariners fell wanting the playoffs regardless of successful 88 video games in 2023, and the 2024 squad had a troublesome midseason collapse that noticed the M’s expend a ten-game lead within the AL West. Seattle was a good 64-64 on the time of Servais’ firing, and rebounded for a 21-13 file down the stretch below new supervisor Dan Wilson.
Lin additionally studies that former first baseman Matt Adams is anticipated to be a part of the teaching workers for the Padres’ Triple-A affiliate in El Paso. A veteran of 10 MLB seasons, Adams formally introduced the tip of his taking part in profession in September, and talked about in his retirement assertion that he was seeking to “search out alternatives in teaching.”
