{"id":344250,"date":"2025-10-30T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:28:10","slug":"albert-pujols-is-no-shoo-in-for-padres-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/344250\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols is no shoo-in for Padres job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Pujols had a 9 \u00bd-hour second interview with the Padres, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, which seems like a good sign for him.<\/p>\n<p>But he has competition <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/28\/sports\/albert-pujols-in-the-mix-to-be-padres-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for Padres manager<\/a>. Some in the San Diego front office still want Ryan Flaherty, who left the Padres coaching staff to become Craig Counsell\u2019s bench coach on the North Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/sports\/nationals-hire-blake-butera-making-him-one-of-youngest-mlb-managers-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiring Blake Butera to manage<\/a>, the Nationals were believed to be looking closely at Guardians associate manager Craig Albernaz, who chose to go 40 minutes away to Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Butera, 33, was a manager and player development director in the Rays minors and fits the Nats\u2019 youth movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols had a 9 \u00bd-hour second interview with the Padres, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[92086,136014,1266,1306,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-344250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-john-flaherty","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-diego-padres","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115465715949712901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}