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Spring training is normally about patience. For the Padres, Manny Machado doesn't have time for that right now. Because while many are treating February like a ...

Padres fans are doing the natural thing right now: scanning the bidder list like it's a free-agent tracker. Joe Lacob. Dan Friedkin. José Feliciano. A Vuori-led ...

The Padres didn't need Joe Musgrove to light up a radar gun in late February. They needed something way more specific, and way more honest. They needed Musgrove ...

Spring training box scores aren't supposed to hurt. They're supposed to be a place where you remind yourself it's February, pitchers are building up, and result ...

This wasn't supposed to be the part of spring where the Padres start doing bullpen math with a pit in their stomach. When Yuki Matsui first felt the left groin ...

Though spring training is a time for superstars to slowly get back into the swing of playing baseball everyday, it is also a proving ground for dozens of other ...

The Padres did the cold-blooded part first, then slipped in the part that should actually matter. San Diego designated Tirso Ornelas for assignment, let him swe ...

The Padres made the trade for Freddy Fermin with the Kansas City Royals at the 2025 trade deadline for one reason: to increase the offensive production at the p ...

The Padres bullpen took a massive hit in the final stretch of the 2025 regular season when Jason Adam suffered a torn quad tendon. Leading up to the injury, Ada ...

No one is saying the quiet part out loud. At least not yet. There is a whispering concern that Michael King will not be the same version of himself that Padres ...