Last week, a shocker out of Oakland saw that team’s manager leave the Bay Area to ply his trade with San Diego. It came as a shocker since Bob Melvin had been with the team for many moons, but writers had written that he was “unhappy” with the direction the team was headed.
Melvin was unhappy in Oakland, and the #Padres just landed one of the greatest in the game.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October 29, 2021
What that unhappiness is will probably be largely left to speculation, but one doesn’t have to go far in that speculation to assume it has to do with payroll and the lack thereof.