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Let's be honest about something immediately: if we were having this conversation at the start of the 2026 season, Manny Machado might not have even been the fir ...

Can Mason Miller be voted in twice?

Oh boy, Fernando Tatis Jr. What are we doing? There are aggressive plays. And then there's whatever that was on June 7 against the New York Mets. Calling it agg ...

Lucas Giolito's reinvention isn't hard to spot. The Padres needed a savvy, affordable veteran, and Giolito has proven time and again that he knows how to get cr ...

The easy joke writes itself. Who looked at the Padres' offense and decided this was the perfect time to give Manny Machado a speaking role in the war on analyti ...

Let's make a deal!

Ramón Laureano is most likely done for the year after undergoing right hip surgery, and suddenly the Padres' outfield picture looks thinner than anyone in San D ...

Jayhaykid shared a pretty ugly snapshot of Manny Machado's season. And it honestly explains a lot. Machado against non-fastballs has gone from a strength to a f ...

Kruz Schoolcraft is the opposite of boring. It's easy to talk yourself into the build. And obviously, the expectation is that the frame will continue to fill ou ...

You gotta love the nonsense around the trade deadline. One minute, Buster Olney is on the Just Baseball Show saying he thinks Tarik Skubal could land with the S ...