Mike Dee’s biggest problem is that, while he hasn’t been here too long, he’s been here too long, longer than most of the Padres’ front officers, long enough to become the fall guy of convenience. The latest bulls-eye, whipping boy du jeur.
Manager Andy Green and GM A.J. Preller are too new to these parts to be the supreme targets of social media’s cannon fire (time opens all wounds). But Dee, man, he’s a huge, overripe, a low-hanging grapefruit, although a bit more sweet than sour.
So the Padres aren’t very good, which they weren’t before Dee came back the second time in 2012 after heading back to Boston with Larry Lucchino and then running the NFL’s Dolphins.