SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres supervisor Bob Melvin had prostate surgical procedure Wednesday.
The staff introduced Melvin’s surgical procedure throughout its 7-5 loss to the Chicago Cubs. It had no additional particulars and mentioned it doubtless received’t have any updates till subsequent week.
The previous A’s supervisor mentioned Tuesday that he didn’t suppose he had most cancers, however the docs wouldn’t know till the surgical procedure. He mentioned he hoped to overlook solely the primary six video games of the staff’s forthcoming nine-game street journey, which begins Friday night time in Atlanta and continues by means of Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Bench coach Ryan Christenson took over as interim supervisor on Tuesday night time, when the Padres beat the Cubs 5-4.
Melvin, who grew up in Palo Alto and performed at Cal, was employed away from Oakland on Nov. 1. He mentioned he had been feeling varied signs for the reason that staff returned from a street journey per week in the past.
Christenson additionally stuffed in for Melvin final Thursday night time and was set for Monday night time, however then Melvin felt nicely sufficient to be within the dugout. The Padres mentioned then that Melvin had a gastrointestinal challenge.
Christenson, a former huge leaguer, got here with Melvin from Oakland, the place he was bench coach the final 4 seasons.
“He’s a future supervisor ready to occur,” Melvin mentioned. “You possibly can ask any of those guys how impactful he's to them in any variety of roles. He’s been with me for fairly some time now and he's going to handle sooner or later in time. We take a look at the sport equally and he’s going to handle it mainly type of the best way I do. We’ve been collectively lengthy sufficient the place he shouldn’t miss a beat.”
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