If you only read the headline, you’d file it under “fun Padres nostalgia” and keep it moving.
Bud Black is back. Wil Myers is back. Two familiar faces, two new titles, one easy emotional reaction: This rules.
But the more you sit with it, the more this feels like something else. It’s a front office telling you, pretty clearly, that the Padres are trying to win the “boring” way too. With infrastructure and coaching touchpoints.
San Diego announced Wednesday that Black has been hired as senior advisor to baseball operations, while Myers joins as a special assignment coach in player development.