Padres hire Ruben Niebla as pitching coach before landing manager

Preller hired Ruben Niebla away from Cleveland on Wednesday, saying a number of factors made the Guardians’ assistant pitching coach and Southern California native too good to pass up even as San Diego’s managerial search stretched to three weeks. Wholesale 11 Darvish MLB Jerseys,

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He is widely credited with helping develop starters such as Shane Bieber, former Padres farmhand Corey Kluber, Mike Clevinger — who’s now with San Diego — Trevor Bauer, Triston McKenzie, Aaron Civale, James Karinchak and Zach Plesac. Clevinger was traded to San Diego in 2020 and spent this season rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.

“He’s a guy we felt was very attractive and he’s got a great reputation in the game,” Preller said. “It’s obviously very competitive out there, so from that standpoint we wanted to make sure he’s with us.”

Preller said Niebla is expected to have an impact on the whole organization’s pitchers, not just the big leaguers.

Preller is still interviewing candidates to replace manager Jayce Tingler, who was fired on Oct. 6 following a brutal second-half collapse that saw the Padres plummet from a solid grip on the NL’s second wild card spot to finishing with a losing record for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

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