Padres’ Youth Movement Hits Coaches: Cisco, Dunlop Are Out : Alomar, Riddoch Get New Team Jobs; Bowa Will Hire Two Assistants for ’88

Larry Bowa’s second season as Padre manager officially began Friday with the announcement that coaches Harry Dunlop and Galen Cisco would not be retained for the 1988 season.

Friday’s announcement, and the previously announced resignation of hitting coach Deacon Jones--he and Dunlop were the only remaining coaches from the 1984 World Series team--mark Bowa’s first real imprint on the coaching staff.

Of five coaches, only Sandy Alomar and Greg Riddoch will return next season, and even their duties will change.

According to Bowa, dugout coach Riddoch will replace Alomar as first-base coach, and Alomar will replace Dunlop as third-base coach. A team source said Amos Otis, the Padre minor league hitting instructor, will replace Jones.

So Bowa will hire a pitching coach to replace Cisco and a bullpen coach, which the Padres will have instead of a dugout coach next season. Bowa is interviewing candidates by telephone and hopes to submit names to President Chub Feeney and General Manager Jack McKeon by their next scheduled meeting during the World Series. Bowa probably will choose a couple of top minor league coaching prospects, men closer to his age (he’ll be 42 in December) and his views than Dunlop and Cisco are.

“This has nothing to do with the kind of job they (Dunlop and Cisco) did on the field. They both did a fine job,” said Bowa from his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa. “But I feel every manager is entitled to bring in his own people, ones he is familiar with. Last year when I was hired, I was allowed to bring in just one guy (Riddoch), but I was told that if I was rehired, I could bring in two or three more. I think I should have that opportunity.

“It’s like going on a date. You want to be with somebody more your age, who looks at things more the way you do.”

Dunlop, 54, has been a Padre coach for four seasons. Dunlop indicated that if he does not get another major league coaching job, he might be retained by the Padres as coordinator of minor league instruction. That job became open recently when Steve Boros, a former Padre manager who served in that capacity last season, was not given a new contract.

“I would be very interested in doing that,” said Dunlop from his Sacramento home. He had a similar job for the Chicago Cubs for four months in the winter of 1978-79 before he became a coach with the Cincinnati Reds.

“I figured I was gone as a coach during the last home stand, when a friend of Sandy Alomar’s told my wife she was sorry she wouldn’t be around us next season,” Dunlop said. “It didn’t take a genius to figure out what that meant. But that’s baseball, and Larry certainly should have the prerogative to hire his own people. If I was a manager, I would want the same thing. I have no hard feelings at all. I do enjoy working with the kids, and if they want to keep me in the organization doing that, I would certainly have to think about it.”

Cisco, 50, has been the Padre pitching coach for three seasons. He has no immediate plans.

“It’s way, way too early for me to figure out what I’m going to do,” he said from his home in St. Mary’s, Ohio. “It’s just very unfortunate what happened, but that’s the way baseball is.”

Jones, 53, quit last week partly because he figured he would be terminated. “I know something is up,” he said last week when he announced his resignation. “You can see the signs.” He said he would pursue a management position with either the league or commissioner’s office.