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The long offseason gives players plenty of time to heal up and prepare for the following season. That's especially important for players who were hurt for large chunks of the previous campaign. Sidelined prospects can lose valuable time to develop and prove themselves. Sometimes there are lingering issues, but often

Fernando Tatis Jr. is an excellent Major League player. No one is doubting that. Entering his age-27 season, Tatis owns a career 137 wRC+, 5.4 fWAR per 600 plate appearances, two Gold Gloves and a pair of Silver Sluggers. Few players in MLB history possess such a resume through their

SAN DIEGO -- With fewer than two weeks before Padres pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, the Friar Faithful packed Petco Park Saturday for a sneak peak of what’s to come this year. On the final day of January, the Padres held their 2026 FanFest, which featured plenty of

The Padres made another addition to their tenuous starting pitching depth by agreeing to a Minor League deal with veteran left-hander Marco Gonzales on Thursday, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The club has not confirmed the deal, which includes an invitation to MLB Spring Training and will be worth

Before every season, we like to peruse the various player projections for stat lines that stand out. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting ones for 2026, using the Steamer projections hosted at FanGraphs -- one of the chief baseball projection systems. Obviously, players like Aaron Judge

This page will be updated throughout the offseason with the latest Padres injury news and transactions.

MLB Network recently completed the annual reveal of its Top 100 Players Right Now list. Surprise, surprise: Shohei Ohtani was at the top. Ohtani has ranked No. 1 in four of the past five seasons, dropping to No. 4 in 2024, when rehab from elbow surgery turned him from two-way

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MLB Pipeline released its Top 100 Prospects list on Friday, putting the spotlight on many of the future stars of baseball. Of course, one of the limits of a Top 100 is having that exact number of players on the list. Many talented players nearly landed in the rankings and

While Yu Darvish said he is "leaning towards" voiding his current contract with the Padres, both he and his agent refuted a report on Saturday that indicated the Japanese right-hander is retiring from baseball. Darvish, 39, has three years and $46 million remaining on the six-year extension he signed with

A Top 100 list is never enough. Every year after we release a Top 100 prospect ranking -- as MLB Pipeline did last Friday -- we always get the simple two-word question from the public: who’s next? Let’s get you started on who could crack future editions of the Top

SAN DIEGO -- The number 35 has been retired by the Padres for nearly three decades to honor the baseball career of Randy Jones, the franchise’s first homegrown star and a lasting icon. That same number will be back on Padres uniforms this year to honor his legacy and humanity.

The MLB Pipeline Top 100 prospects list is out for another season, and the 2026 edition – released Friday night – is topped by shortstops Konnor Griffin (Pirates), Kevin McGonigle (Tigers) and Jesús Made (Brewers). Twenty-nine of the 30 Major League farm systems have at least one representative on the

SAN DIEGO -- Padres history is filled with elite closers. Three are Hall of Famers. Another won a Cy Young. A dozen were All-Stars. There were great closers on great teams -- and great closers on bad teams. The one constant in San Diego, through decades of ups and downs,

Could a golden era of shortstops be dawning? Konnor Griffin (Pirates) has the best tools in the Minors and is MLB Pipeline's reigning Hitting Prospect of the Year. Kevin McGonigle (Tigers) is the best pure hitting prospect in the game, with JJ Wetherholt (Cardinals) right behind. Jesús Made (Brewers) and

The Top 100 Players Right Now have been revealed by MLB Network, with the conclusion airing Thursday night. This year, all 30 teams were represented on the Top 100, which starts with a global, two-way phenom and ends with a pitcher who signed a big contract with a new team

Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced start times for its entire 2026 calendar of games, including the regular season, Spring Training and the third annual Spring Breakout.

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Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones have gone from center field to center stage. Beltrán and Jones were elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in results revealed Tuesday night on MLB Network. The game’s highest individual honor went to Beltrán in his

SAN DIEGO -- From 0 (and 00) through 99, these are the best players to wear each number ever worn by a Padre: 0) Raffy Lopez: The only Padre to wear 0, Lopez played 37 games for the Padres in 2018 and hit a memorable go-ahead home run against the

On Friday, Padres beat reporter AJ Cassavell conducted an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. You can read the full transcript here. But these are the highlights (edited lightly for clarity and brevity): If the Padres can only make one more big move, which is the higher priority: starting pitching

The Padres have made history on the international market over the past few years due to the high-ranking nature of their signees. After landing the then-No. 1 players in their respective classes, Ethan Salas in 2023 and Leo De Vries in ‘24, the club was heavily involved in the Roki