Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports is reporting that new Milwaukee Brewers head coach, Craig Counsell, wants long time friend, Pat Murphy, to join his major league coaching staff. There’s just one problem. Murphy is currently the head coach of the San Diego Padres Triple-A affiliate, the El Paso Chihuahuas, and the Padres have no interest in letting him leave.
None.
According to Rosenthal’s report, the Padres “have balked at letting him go.” One of Rosenthal’s sources also report that the Padres “believe that losing their Triple-A manager in the middle of the season would be “chaotic,”.