Our team-by-team Commerce Deadline Outlook collection continues with the Padres. San Diego’s top-heavy roster makes it straightforward to establish the priorities. If they continue to be immune to buying and selling both of their prime prospects, they might pivot to under-the-radar or rental commerce targets.
Document: 52-44 (48.3% playoff likelihood, per FanGraphs)
Different collection entries: Rockies, Giants, Phillies, Pirates, Astros, Marlins, Athletics, Orioles, White Sox, Nationals, Cubs, Rays, Dodgers, Braves, Yankees, Angels, Mets, Blue Jays, Mariners
Purchase Mode
Potential wants: Catcher, left discipline, beginning pitcher, utility infielder
San Diego has had the identical prime few wants going again to the offseason. Free agent departures of Kyle Higashioka and Jurickson Profar left them with out solutions at catcher and in left discipline, respectively. The rotation depth has been a query since Joe Musgrove underwent Tommy John surgical procedure. The late-offseason Nick Pivetta signing has been huge, however the again of the rotation nonetheless feels tenuous. Low-cost pickups in catcher and left discipline haven’t panned out, leaving the Padres to deal with each positions over the subsequent two and a half weeks.
The Padres have had arguably the worst catching tandem in MLB. Elias Díaz and Martín Maldonado have mixed to hit .195/.255/.306 over 327 plate appearances. Neither participant charges extremely as a pitch framer. Whereas each gamers, particularly Maldonado, have a robust popularity for the unquantifiable points of catcher protection (e.g. game-calling, managing a pitching workers), the manufacturing has not been there. It speaks to how far former prime prospect Luis Campusano has fallen within the group’s eyes that he hasn’t gotten a possibility this 12 months.
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