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San Diego Padres star third baseman Manny Machado became the first player to earn a pitch clock violation during spring training. On Tuesday afternoon, Machado became the first player to get ejected for arguing a pitch clock violation. Here is what went down in the first inning of the Padres contest with the Arizona Diamondbacks, per Jomboy […]

The San Diego Padres snatched a win from the jaws of defeat on Monday when they blasted a pair of home runs in the ninth to come through with a 5-4 victory in their series opener at home against the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks. If you feel like you’ve never seen a game end like that […]

Kicking off the slate on Tuesday is an NL West showdown between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres. We continue our MLB odds series with a Diamondbacks-Padres prediction, pick, and how to watch. The afternoon affair comes up after the two teams faced Monday night in San Diego. In that affair, the eight […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks (2-2) visit the San Diego Padres (2-2) on Monday night! First pitch is slated for 9:41 p.m. ET. Below we continue our MLB odds series with a Diamondbacks-Padres prediction, pick, and how to watch. After finishing in fourth place in the NL West last season, Arizona started the season strong by splitting […]

In the third game of the 2023 season, Xander Bogaerts collected two huge firsts for the San Diego Padres. He hit his first home run and won his first game with his new team in an 8-4 win over the Colorado Rockies. Bogaerts’ two-run blast in the bottom of the first kicked off a great […]

Jake Cronenworth will be a San Diego Padre well into his 30s after agreeing to sign a seven-year, $80 million extension with the franchise, The Athletic’s Dennis Lin reported on Saturday. The infielder is currently earning $4.225 million in 2023, and has already passed his physical, with the new deal expected to be announced on […]

The Colorado Rockies will continue their opening weekend series with the San Diego Padres in a Friday night MLB matchup at Petco Park in San Diego. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Rockies-Padres prediction and pick, laid out below. Colorado struggled mightily last season, finishing […]

The San Diego Padres don’t really have history. Sure, they had Tony Gwynn and Trevor Hoffman and the only brown jerseys in professional sports, but their narrative arc largely bends towards mediocrity. Seven playoff appearances in 55 years, a .464 lifetime winning percentage, a lifetime of 75-87 seasons: hardly inspiring stuff. In this sense, the […]

The San Diego Padres will be without starting pitcher Joe Musgrove for at least the next two weeks after the 30-year-old landed on the 15-day IL with a left big toe fracture, according to MLB.com transactions. It isn’t a surprising move after Musgrove injured his toe during the Grapefruit League in February; he fractured the […]

Opening day is finally here! After a long offseason baseball returns as the San Diego Padres play host to the visiting Colorado Rockies. Check out our MLB Odds series with a prediction and pick while we tell you how to watch. The Padres made a few offseason moves that they are excited about. The biggest […]

We are less than 24 hours from the first pitch on opening day, and Juan Soto opens the season at home against the Colorado Rockies. Check out our MLB odds series as we hand out an over/under on regular season home runs for Juan Soto prediction and pick. Soto is just 24-years-old, but he is […]

San Diego Padres third base coach and five-time MLB All-Star Matt Williams was diagnosed with colon cancer, per Alden Gonzalez. Padres’ manager Bob Melvin broke the devastating news and called Williams one of the toughest people he’s ever met, per Gonzalez as well. Williams will reportedly be with San Diego on Opening Day, but will […]

Can you feel it baseball fans? MLB Opening Day is right around the corner as the boys of summer are only two days away from first pitch! With the start of a fresh campaign in the works, which standout names in the National League have the best odds to win the 2023 NL MVP? Without […]

The San Diego Padres made a number of significant moves during the offseason. The Padres bolstered their roster and are prepared to compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Freddie Freeman even admitted that he was impressed by San Diego’s spending-spree. Clayton Kershaw commended the Padres, but also dropped an honest admission that will get Dodgers […]

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman has taken notice of the San Diego Padres rampant free agency spending this offseason. While the Padres are loading up in part to take down the Dodgers, Freeman seems to have welcomed the challenge. San Diego has added talented players such as Xander Bogaerts, Matt Carpenter and Michael […]

Opening Day is approaching in MLB, and San Diego Padres star Juan Soto is ready and excited for the start of the season, according to Kevin Acee of San Diego Union-Tribune. “I am really excited to be healthy to play Opening Day,” Juan Soto said, via Acee. Soto spent a good part of the spring […]

After falling well short of expectations in 2021, the San Diego Padres played their way into the postseason and fell three wins short of a World Series appearance in 2022. Already boasting a roster full of all-star talents like Juan Soto and Manny Machado, the Padres went out this offseason and signed star shortstop Xander […]

The 2023 MLB regular season is coming right up with less than a week before Opening Day, but the San Diego Padres might already be down a key member of their bullpen by the time they play their first game of the campaign. Via Kevin Acee of The San Diego Union-Tribune: “Robert Suarez, the right-handed […]

San Diego Padres’ stars Juan Soto and Xander Bogaerts are both dealing with injuries ahead of Opening Day. Fortunately for San Diego, both players are reportedly working towards returning before the start of the season, per Kevin Acee of The San Diego Union-Tribune. The Padres are hopeful that Soto, who’s dealing with an oblique ailment, […]

Manny Machado is going to be with the San Diego Padres for a very long time. As it currently looks, Machado will likely spend the rest of his MLB career with the Padres after signing an enormous deal with the team that’s worth $350 million and will not expire until the end of the 2033 […]

The San Diego Padres are one of the most exciting teams in MLB, with plenty of star power. They are one out of the handful of teams who have a realistic chance to win the World Series in 2023. There are some questions that face the team with Opening Day approaching, and some of them […]

The San Diego Padres very nearly made it all the way to the World Series last season with only Manny Machado and Juan Soto leading the way. Now, they have added Xander Bogaerts in free agency, and will be getting Fernando Tatis Jr. back once he serves the final 20 games of his 80-game suspension. […]

The San Diego Padres are waiving their World Baseball Classic restrictions on superstar outfielder Juan Soto, per Bob Nightengale. It was previously reported that San Diego didn’t want Soto playing in back-to-back games amid a lingering injury. However, Soto is now cleared to play in consecutive games for Team Dominican Republic. Soto recently led the […]

San Diego Padres’ star Juan Soto previously dealt with calf tightness in spring training. The injury placed his World Baseball Classic status in jeopardy, but Soto was ultimately cleared to play for Team Dominican Republic. Soto is in the lineup for Monday’s game versus Nicaragua, however, he is still facing restrictions, per Bob Nightengale. “San […]

The San Diego Padres completed one of the biggest trades in MLB history by acquiring generational talent Juan Soto. He is on a short-term deal only, so the Padres’ front office knows they need to move quickly and add the supplementary pieces that would propel them to World Series consideration. Xander Bogaerts, Nelson Cruz, and […]

The Colorado Rockies are a potential landing spot for San Diego Padres’ free agent Jurickson Profar, the Denver Post’s Patrick Saunders reported on Friday. In the past month, the Rockies have lost both Randal Grichuk to a bilateral sports hernia and Sean Bouchard to a biceps rupture that could  potentially require season-ending surgery. The depth […]

The San Diego Padres are loaded with talent after signing Xander Bogaerts, trading for Juan Soto, and finally getting Fernando Tatis Jr. back on the field after a series of injuries and a PED suspension. Tatis has been playing in Spring Training, although his bat hasn’t gotten going just yet. Despite the slow start, Padres […]

Aaron Judge signed a nine-year, $360 million contract to stay with the New York Yankees after he was wooed by the likes of the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres. While Yankees fans feared the Giants as more of a threat to swipe The Judge away in free agency, the latest MLB rumors suggest […]

The San Diego Padres enter the 2023 MLB season with a ton of promise. They defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers and made a stunning run to the NLCS, all without Fernando Tatis Jr. Unfortunately, pitcher Joe Musgrove sustained a bizarre toe injury after dropping a dumbbell on his foot, and his status to start the […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to be without SP Walker Buehler for most, if not all of the 2023 season. The Dodgers’ 2022 Opening Day starter is recovering from Tommy John surgery and MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds believes his absence significantly closes the gap between LA and the San Diego Padres, per MLB […]

San Diego Padres star outfielder Juan Soto gave an update on his calf ahead of participating in the World Baseball Classic with Team Dominican Republic, and his plans remain the same, according to Marino Pepen. “My calf is feeling 100% and the plan remains for me to leave for the World Baseball Classic later this […]

San Diego Padres’ star Fernando Tatis Jr. is going to receive harsh treatment from fans this season. He was suspended last year for PEDs which drew the ire of fans on social media, and now they are receiving the opportunity to air their grievances in person. Dodgers fans let Tatis Jr. hear it on Monday […]

San Diego Padres’ star Juan Soto isn’t headed to the World Baseball Classic yet. The other Padres players on the Dominican Republic team recently left for Florida, but Soto is remaining in Padres’ camp to receive treatment for his calf injury, per Kevin Acee. However, Soto is still expected to participate in the WBC, which […]

One could debate for hours on just which active players have already made a strong case to one day be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. There are other stars who are far from locks for the Baseball Hall of Fame but have put together formidable seasons as of late, such as San Diego […]

If it wasn’t clear by now, the San Diego Padres are all-in. We all got a glimpse into what this ballclub is capable of in the 2022 MLB Playoffs, knocking out the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers en route to an appearance in the NLCS. Then came the offseason where Peter Seidler and the front office […]

San Diego Padres’ star Juan Soto is not in the team’s lineup for their Friday night affair versus the Chicago Cubs due to a left calf injury, per Kevin Acee. Soto was scratched from San Diego’s lineup earlier in the week against the Los Angeles Dodgers due to calf tightness, but played in two games […]

Having already damned the torpedoes by doling out massive extensions to Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts, the San Diego Padres now hope to extend superstar outfielder Juan Soto and closer Josh Hader, both of whom they traded for at last year’s deadline, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The Padres […]

Over the past few years, a plethora of top prospects have risen through the ranks for the San Diego Padres. Chief among those prospects is Fernando Tatis Jr., who, despite his 80-game suspension in 2022 due to PED suspension, remains the face of the franchise, the player who led the Padres’ transformation into a winning […]

The San Diego Padres have added a ton of stars in recent years, and now Manny Machado, Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Xander Bogaerts form a great foundation for a dangerous lineup. Despite all of the talent that the Padres have, they are still trying to win the National League West over the Los […]