Front Row Seat: Craig Stammen introduced as Padres manager

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Weekend Recap: Craig Stammen introduced & SDFC Advances

Lots of things happened today and over the weekend in San Diego Sports and Darren Smith has got you covered.

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San Diego Padres

Stammen eyes more history, 'greatest challenge' as manager: A World Series title - MLB.com
Stammen was introduced as the team’s 20th manager (not counting interim managers) on Monday in a press conference at Petco Park. He is the first skipper in club history to spend the bulk of his playing career in the bullpen. (He also joins Bruce Bochy as the only Padres non-interim managers who played for the team and Jerry Coleman as the only Padres managers with no previous coaching experience.)

Stammen’s ultimate goal? Make another kind of history as the first Padres manager to win a World Series title.

“The greatest challenge of this position,” Stammen said, “and the most fun part about baseball, is putting in the work and the effort to be that last team standing. And that's what gets me excited, gives me some goosebumps to see.”

Why, for the Padres, ex-reliever Craig Stammen is unlike other first-time managers - The Athletic
Stammen is similar to two of his ex-Padres managers, Andy Green and Jayce Tingler, in that he has never done the job at this level. He is unlike them — and perhaps anyone in the history of the league — as a middle reliever who ascended to the highest leverage of coaching jobs without any formal coaching experience.

There is this, too: He has spent far more time in the organization and as a member of the big-league club than any of Preller’s five previous managerial hires.