List of San Diego Padres managers

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The San Diego Padres are a professional baseball franchise based in San Diego, California. They are a member of the National League (NL) West in Major League Baseball (MLB). The team joined MLB in 1969 as an expansion team and have won two NL Championships in 1984 and 1998. The team played their home games at Qualcomm Stadium (formerly known as San Diego Stadium and Jack Murphy Stadium) from 1969 to 2003. Starting with the 2004 season, they moved to PETCO Park, where they have played since. [1] The team is owned by Ron Fowler, and A. J. Preller is their general manager. [2] There have been 21 managers for the Padres franchise. [3] The team was most recently managed by Jayce Tingler, who was fired at the end of the 2021 season. [4]

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The first manager of the Padres was Preston Gómez, who managed for four seasons. Bruce Bochy is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games managed (1926), the most regular-season game wins (951), the most playoff games managed (24), and the most playoff-game wins (8). Bob Skinner is the Padres' all-time leader for the highest regular-season winning percentage, as he has only managed one game, which he won. Of the managers who have managed a minimum of 162 games (one season), Jack McKeon has the highest regular-season winning percentage with .541, having managed for 357 games. Dick Williams, the only Padres manager to have been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame, [5] is the franchise's all-time leader for the highest playoff winning percentage with .400. [3] [6] Williams and Bochy are the only managers to have won an NL Championship with the Padres, in 1984 and 1998 respectively. [6] Bochy and Black are the only managers to have won a Manager of the Year Award with the Padres, in 1996 and 2010. [7] Greg Riddoch and Jerry Coleman have spent their entire managing careers with the Padres. [3]

Key

#Number of managers [a]
GMRegular-season games managed
WRegular-season wins
LRegular-season losses
Win%Regular-season winning percentage
PGMPlayoff games managed
PWPlayoff wins
PLPlayoff losses
PWin%Playoff winning percentage
*Spent entire MLB managing career with the Padres [3]
†Elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager [5]

Managers

Note: Statistics are correct as through October 2nd, 2023.

#ManagerYearsGMWLWin%PGMPWPLPWin%Notes
1 Preston Gómez 1969–1972 496180316.363————
2 Don Zimmer 1972–1973 304114190.375————
3 John McNamara 1974–1977 534224310.419————
4 Bob Skinner 1977 1101.000————
5 Alvin Dark 1977 1134865.425————
6 Roger Craig 1978–1979 323152171.471————
7 Jerry Coleman * 1980 1637389.451————
8 Frank Howard 1981 1104169.373————
9 Dick Williams † 1982–1985 649337311.5201046.400 1984 NL Champions [6]
10 Steve Boros 1986 1627488.457————
11 Larry Bowa 1987–1988 20881127.389————
12 Jack McKeon 1988–1990 357193164.541————
13 Greg Riddoch * 1990–1992 394200194.508————
14 Jim Riggleman 1992–1994 291112179.385————
15 Bruce Bochy 1995–2006 1926951975.49424816.333 1996 NL Manager of the Year [7]
1998 NL Champions [6]
16 Bud Black 2007–2015 1362649713.477———— 2010 NL Manager of the Year [7]
17 Dave Roberts 2015 101.000————
18 Pat Murphy 2015 964254.438————
19 Andy Green 2016–2019 640274366.428————
20 Rod Barajas 2019 817.125————
21 Jayce Tingler 2020–2021 222116106.523624.333
22 Bob Melvin 2022–2023 324171153.5281266.500
23 Mike Shildt 2024–present

Notes

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