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Padres manager Jayce Tingler making no assumptions about unique MLB season

Those who end up achieving their goals generally weren’t focused on the goal along the way. They focused on the process, did a little extra, got the job in front of them done.

Perhaps Jayce Tingler is merely one of those kinds of successful people.

Or maybe the man who became a manager seemingly out of nowhere, who did whatever was asked as best he could and as hard as he could, was also made to manage in such a time as this.

From Double-A dropout to coach for the Texas Rangers in the Dominican Republic to major league coach to assistant general manager and back to the major league bench to his first gig as a big-league manager, Tingler took things as they came.