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A lot of early minor league stat lines are easy to admire without taking too much from them. But this one deserves a little more attention. Kash Mayfield has op ...

We knew this was the risk. And now Matt Waldron has become the unintentional punchline, whether that's fair or not. The Padres were asking a very specific kind ...

It really is like having a cheat code on the mound when it's Mason Miller's turn to pitch. He has the mind-boggling metrics. He has the intimidating walk-out so ...

There is a clean, reasonable baseball explanation for this move. And there is also a much more interesting one. The Padres reinstated Sung-Mun Song from the inj ...

Some hot starts in Triple-A barely register beyond the box score. Jase Bowen's is starting to carry a little more weight than that, mostly because he hasn't sto ...

A franchise that has spent years trying to prove it belongs among baseball's biggest players, this would be a massive statement. The Wall Street Journal reports ...

When Freddy Fermin took a foul ball directly off the mask against the Mariners, the Padres had every reason to fear the worst. Any time a catcher gets hit in th ...

Padres got what passes for a positive update on Nick Pivetta this week, but let's not pretend the wording didn't come with a warning label. Pivetta has been dia ...

Opportunity has come knocking. How will Waldron respond?

Let's not attempt to reinvent the wheel here. With Nick Pivetta devastatingly hitting the injured list with elbow issues, there is suddenly a massive hole withi ...