Melvin and the Padres can rid themselves of their ‘unfixable’ situation while the Giants benefit.
San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin looks on from the dugout before their MLB game against the Oakland Athletics at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. When the San Francisco Giants made the decision to fire manager Gabe Kapler with three games left in the season, Farhan Zaidi said they planned to “cast a wide net” and look beyond candidates with ties to him, the organization or the Bay Area.
Melvin, who turns 62 this week, was born in Palo Alto and raised in Menlo Park. When Menlo-Atherton High School opened its Hall of Fame in 1994, Melvin, for his two-sport accolades, was the first inductee. He took those talents across the Bay, to Cal, where he played for a season before he turned pro. Over the course of a 10-year playing career, Melvin crossed paths with Roger Craig and Mike Krukow in San Francisco before spending more than half his managerial career in Oakland.
Melvin spent 11 years in Oakland, making six playoff appearances, and overlapped with Zaidi for parts of four seasons. As the Giants look to replenish their roster and reverse course from their repeated failures on the free agent market, Zaidi also said they were seeking an “effective recruiter.” Few available managers would come with as sterling of a reputation around the game as Melvin, whose laid-back style has proven popular and successful between stints in Seattle, Arizona, Oakland and San Diego.
Sometimes in these situations clubs work out some kind of compensation. In fact, it’s how Melvin’s managerial career began. The Tampa Bay Rays traded outfielder Randy Winn to the Seattle Mariners for the opportunity to hire Lou Piniella, opening up the position for Melvin. — Were Melvin to be hired, his coaching staff would likely be made up of some holdovers from the previous regime and some newcomers. Among the coaches he could bring with him from San Diego, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, is third base coach— In an ideal scenario, the Giants would have a presumed successor lined up behind Melvin, who has not committed to managing beyond next season.
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