San Diego Padres fire another coach

A month before the season ended, San Diego Padres’ manager Andy Green announced that Alan Zinter had been dismissed from his job as the teams’ hitting coach. As of Wednesday, Ramon Vazquez, who played for San Diego from 2002-2004 and served as the infield coach this season, will follow him out the door.

Since the arrival of general manager A.J. Preller and Green, the Padres have presided over a veritable revolving door of coaches. Only pitching coach Darren Balsley and third base coach Glenn Hoffman, both holdovers from previous regimes, have had any measure of job security. The turnover at the position of first base coach has been particularly alarming, with three different coaches in three…