{"id":247681,"date":"2025-10-29T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247681\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:36:09","slug":"albert-pujols-in-the-mix-to-be-padres-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247681\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols in the mix to be Padres manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Pujols popped in for Game 3 on his way to his interview for the vacant Padres manager job, for which he is considered a serious candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Pujols, ex-Padres coach and current Cubs bench coach Ryan Flaherty, ex-Padre and current Rangers exec Nick Hundley, Padres pitching coach Ruben Niebla, Padres scout and ex-Mariners manager Scott Servais and Padres 3B coach Brian Esposito are among the candidates. <\/p>\n<p>The Twins may have a decision by the end of the week, with the finalists reportedly Flaherty, Yankees hitting coach James Rowson, ex-Pirates manager Derek Shelton and Servais. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2175981;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37513341\" width=\"718\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-york-yankees-vs-toronto-99034157.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees hitting coach James Rowson in the dugout during a game.\" class=\"wp-image-37513341\"  \/>Yankees hitting coach James Rowson in the dugout. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>How important is a great catcher? Arguably, the four LCS teams have the four best catchers: Cal Raleigh, Will Smith, Alejandro Kirk and William Contreras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols popped in for Game 3 on his way to his interview for the vacant Padres manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[74937,64,63,591,64736,1189,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-247681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-albert-pujols","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}