Gregory Lee Riddoch (born July 17, 1945) is anAmerican formerprofessional baseballplayer,manager andcoach who served as manager of theSan Diego Padres ofMajor League Baseball from July 12,1990 through September 22,1992, compiling a careerwin–loss record of 200–194 (.508).

Riddoch threw and battedright-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg). He attendedColorado State University and theUniversity of Northern Colorado, where he led all NCAA Division I players in home runs in 1967 with 17 in just 26 games. Riddoch was drafted in the third round of the secondary phase of the June 1967 amateur draft by theCincinnati Reds' organization where he was aninfielder for five seasons (1967–71). He spent 13 seasons as a minor league manager in theshort-seasonNorthwest League and theRookie-levelPioneer League and became a coach for the Padres from1987 until the1990 All-Star break when he succeededJack McKeon as the San Diego manager. He led the Padres to winning seasons in both1991 (84–78) and1992 (78–72), but was fired in favor ofJim Riggleman by the Padres'general manager,Joe McIlvaine, with a dozen games left in the 1992 campaign.^[1] Riddoch's successor finished with a much lower winning percentage, .385^[2] vs .508^[3] than Riddoch.

During his baseball career, Riddoch also served as third base coach for theTampa Bay Devil Rays (1998–99), director of minor league clubs for the Reds (1985–86) and director of player development of theMilwaukee Brewers (2000–02).^[4] He retired in 2010 following a four-year stint as manager for theEugene Emeralds of Northwest League, then affiliated with the Padres. Earlier in his career, when the Emeralds were a Reds'farm team, Riddoch had managed them for six seasons (1975–76; 1978–81), for a total of ten years as manager in Eugene.

Riddoch was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. Former Padres' outfielder Tony Gywnn, one of the greatest hitters of his generation, called his former coach "one of the best teachers ever of the game."^[5]

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