{"id":338676,"date":"2025-12-09T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:16:07","slug":"padres-make-three-new-hires-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338676\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Make Three New Hires To Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres are expected to hire Bob Henley, Ryan Goins<\/a>, and Kevin Plawecki<\/a> to the team\u2019s revamped coaching staff under new manager Craig Stammen<\/a>, The Athletic\u2019s Dennis Lin<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Henley will coach third base, Goins will be an infield coach, and Plawecki will move from being a minor league catching instructor for the Padres to a new role as the big league catching coach.\u00a0 First base coach David Macias will return in his role, and Nick Punto<\/a> will also return for a second year on San Diego\u2019s staff in an unspecified role.<\/p>\n

Henley (who turns 53 in January) has spent almost his entire baseball career in the Expos\/Nationals organization, save for a single game with the Pirates\u2019 A-level affiliate in 2002.\u00a0 Selected by Montreal in the 26th round of 1991 draft, Henley spent his first seven pro seasons as a player in the Expos\u2019 farm system, and his only 41 career MLB games came in a Montreal uniform in 1998.\u00a0 Elbow problems then essentially ended his career, and Henley then spent 11 years as a manager and field coordinator at the minor league level for the organization, bridging the Expos\u2019 move to Washington.<\/p>\n

Promoted to the third base coach job for the start of the 2014 season, Henley spent the next eight seasons in the role, before moving into a player development job at the conclusion of the 2021 campaign.\u00a0 Henley made a brief return to the coaching staff as a Major League field coordinator last July, as the Nationals had to make some alterations to the staff once Davey Martinez was fired as manager.<\/p>\n

Stammen pitched with the Nationals from 2009-15, so there\u2019s plenty of familiarity between the Padres skipper and his new third base coach.\u00a0 Plawecki is also a known quantity to Stammen from their shared time working in San Diego, and Plawecki\u2019s brief time as a player in the Padres\u2019 minor league system.\u00a0 Goins has no past ties to Stammen or the Padres, but he is no stranger to SoCal, after working on the Angels\u2019 coaching staff for the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

Goins is a veteran of eight Major League seasons (2013-20), spent primarily with the Blue Jays.\u00a0 Despite a lack of hitting, Goins\u2019 solid glove helped him carve out a niche for himself as a part-time player, and he\u2019ll now look to impart his defensive wisdom onto the Padres\u2019 infielders.\u00a0 Goins worked as the Angels\u2019 infield coach in 2024 and 2025, though he was promoted to a bench coach role last June in the wake of Ron Washington\u2019s medical leave.\u00a0 Bench coach Ray Montgomery became the Halos\u2019 interim manager, thus creating a vacancy in the bench coach job.<\/p>\n

Plawecki also played in the majors for eight seasons (2015-22), with the bulk of that time spent in a backup and part-time catcher role with the Mets and Red Sox.\u00a0 He played in the minors for two more seasons, and after spending 2024 with the Padres\u2019 Triple-A team in El Paso, he retired to step into a new job as instructor for San Diego\u2019s Arizona Complex League club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres are expected to hire Bob Henley, Ryan Goins, and Kevin Plawecki to the team\u2019s revamped coaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[170436,170437,170438,363,170439,95099,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-338676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bob-henley","9":"tag-david-macias","10":"tag-kevin-plawecki","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nick-punto","13":"tag-ryan-goins","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}