SAN DIEGO -- The Padres’ hiring of Craig Stammen as their manager is unprecedented in franchise history in one sense. In another, it’s history repeating itself.

The latter history suggests Stammen could enjoy a long, successful tenure.

Stammen was introduced as the team’s 20th manager (not counting interim managers) on Monday in a press conference at Petco Park. He is the first skipper in club history to spend the bulk of his playing career in the bullpen. (He also joins Bruce Bochy as the only Padres non-interim managers who played for the team and Jerry Coleman as the only Padres managers with no previous coaching experience.)

Stammen’s ultimate goal? Make another kind of history as the first Padres manager to win a World Series title.

“The greatest challenge of this position,” Sta

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