Centerville -- When second-year San Diego Padres manager Andy Green assembled his coaching staff for the start of spring training in Peoria, Arizona over the weekend, there are two members of that staff who are products of the baseball program at Indian Hills Community College.

Jonathan Mathews and Ramon Vazquez, a couple of former IHCC stars, are new additions to the Padres' organization, making the jump from Class A ball to take spots on the team's major league staff.

Mathews was hired in the offseason to help work with the Padres' outfielders and Vazquez will specialize in teaching the infielders.

Mathews, who played for his father Rick at Indian Hills, has been a minor-league hitting coach for the past four years. He began in Delmarva in the Baltimore Orioles' farm system and has spent the past three seasons working for the Arizona Diamondbacks, with stops in South Bend, Ind., Visalia, Calif., and Kane County, Ill., all in Class A. He had two solid season with the IHCC Falcons, culminating in a trip to the Juco World Series his sophomore year. He was the first Academic All-American from the IHCC baseball program. Mathews played a couple of seasons of minor league baseball and then coached and managed in the minors before returning to Indian Hills where he was an assistant coach under current head coach Cam Walker for 12 years.

Vazquez was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 27th round after his sophomore season with the Falcons. He had a nine-year major league career, including three seasons with his current employer, the Padres, from 2002-04. Last year's manager of the Houston Astros' Class A club in Lancaster, Calif., Vazquez made his MLB playing debut with the Mariners in 2001 and also played in the big leagues with the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Texas Rangers. After retiring as an active player, Vazquez became a minor league instructor for the Astros, starting out as the hitting coach for the Rookie League Gulf Coast League Astros. The next season he was an infield development specialist for the Lascaster JetHawks in the California League and then managed there in 2016.

With one of the youngest rosters in baseball, the Pardes are looking at the next month and a half, before the season opener in early April, as a chance to ingrain a winning philosophy throughout the organization, according to the team's website.

"There's a possibility for more classroom-type settings with young guys like that," said manager Green. "That probably isn't the norm at the Major League-level, but we've got a ton of youth, and we want to identify the way we want to play the game.

The Padres invested heavily in the draft and the international market, while making trades for a handful of top prospects as well. The 2017 season could prove critical in the development of those youngsters -- and that will begin in spring camp.

And that's where Mathews and Vazquez are being counted on to impart their wisdom to the youngsters who are the future of the franchise.