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The Padres signed Marco Gonzales because February always exposes the same truth: even the most talented rosters eventually run out of healthy, reliable innings ...

The Padres don't have a ton of time to "find themselves" this spring. Craig Stammen is less than a month from setting his first Opening Day lineup that actually ...

The Padres don't need Stephen Kolek to be healthy anymore -- but the Royals kind of do. And that's what makes his current issue feel like an immediate reminder t ...

The Padres didn't need Triston McKenzie to win a Cactus League inning. They needed him to answer one question that's been hanging over his career for the last t ...

Spring training box scores are junk food. Fun, noisy, and mostly meaningless. But Michael King's first outing? That actually matters. King made his spring debut ...

ESPN didn't just hand Jackson Merrill a compliment this week. It handed the Padres a standard. In Buster Olney's annual ranking of MLB's top 10 center fielders ...

There's no telling how good the San Diego Padres' starting rotation will be in 2026. There are plenty of question marks, most notably highlighted by whether bot ...

The Padres don't have a "talent" problem. They have a translation problem. It's one thing to acquire players, draft athletes, stack tools, and talk about upside ...

Bob Nightengale dropped the detail that should make the Padres' coaching staff flinch a little: the Dodgers' regulars have barely played, Mookie Betts hasn't pl ...

The Padres have plenty of prospects you can talk yourself into. Smooth swings. Clean actions. "High floor" guys who look like they were built in a lab to be a r ...