The San Diego Padres hired Scott Servais as a special assistant for baseball operations and player development.
The Seattle Mariners fired Servais as manager in August.
Servais, 57, is not the first former big-league manager to join the Padres’ minor-league system in recent years. In 2022, months after being fired by the St. Louis Cardinals, Mike Shildt was hired by San Diego as a player development consultant. Shildt, who succeeded Bob Melvin as Padres manager last offseason, received a contract extension through 2027 in November.