Even with player transactions frozen during the recently instituted MLB lockout, the Oakland A’s are still losing somebody from their dugout.
Bench coach Ryan Christenson is leaving the A’s to join the San Diego Padres coaching staff, reported Dennis Lin of The Athletic on Friday. Next week Christenson will be named as the Padres new bench coach, the same role he had in Oakland.
It’s the second time this winter that an A’s coach has headed south to the same destination. At the end of October, longtime A’s manager Bob Melvin left to become the Padres new skipper.