Ron Washington thought he was going to be the Padres’ next manager in 2019. He thinks he should have been.
But he also believes the guy who got the job should still have it.
“This guy deserves another chance,” Washington, the Atlanta Braves’ third base coach, said of Jayce Tingler. “I know this team was supposed to do this and supposed to do that. But if you believe in him — and I’m talking about A.J. (Preller) — you give him another shot to right his wrongs.”
Washington, who was the choice of some in the Padres’ organization before Preller hired Tingler in October of 2019, knows both men from their time with the Texas Rangers. Washington was the Rangers’ manager from 2007-14 and went to the World Series in 2010 and ’11. Preller was assistant general manager, and Tingler worked as a minor league coach and coordinator during that time.
“Your first couple years are tough, simply because you’ve never done it before,” Washington said. “Everybody questions you, second-guesses you, everybody is out to get your ass. You have to stand strong. You have to stand tough in your beliefs. You have to stay strong in the type of baseball you want people to recognize you for.”
Washington, one of the most widely respected coaches in the major leagues, wasn’t asked about Tingler. He volunteered his thoughts on the embattled Padres manager.
“He gives a damn,” Washington said. “He gives a damn too much sometimes. Once you get that job and you start thinking everything that happens is on me — which it is — you’re going to be very careful on how you do things. And you can’t. You have to do what’s right. … It takes some time. You can’t take a novice guy and put him in that situation and don’t have anybody around him that can get his ear and help guide him, help mold him and then put him out there and then only give him a year.”
Washington, who the Padres asked in 2019 to be Tingler’s bench coach, said 2021 was akin to Tingler’s first year, as it was his first 162-game season.
“I’m looking at the big picture,” Washington said. “I was a novice in Texas. I know how people came after me.”
Scouting shuffle
The reshaping of the scouting department continued Friday, as the Padres did not renew the contracts of at least a half-dozen scouts.
A couple of the people who departed did so for other opportunities, at least one moving to another club and one who took a job out of baseball. At least four area scouts/crosscheckers were let go.
This follows the moves this week to part ways with senior farm director Sam Geaney and reassign amateur scouting director Mark Conner.
International scouting director Chris Kemp added Conner’s duties to his own, and director of player development Ryley Westman took over for Geaney.
Staff writer Jeff Sanders contributed to this report.
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