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San Diego Padres General Magager A.J. Preller and Managers Bud Black talk during a spring training practice. — K.C. Alfred
Maybe we’ve seen this coming for quite some time (a good lot of you have been screaming for it for years).
Wherever you stand on Bud Black’s skills as a manager (did fine in my book), Black – like Josh Byrnes before him – simply wasn’t ownership’s guy.