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After seven years in the Padres organization, Jason Blanchard made the kind of decision that always lands a little heavy. This was a guy who spent the better pa ...

The Padres have done exactly what good teams are supposed to do when the schedule opens up with some breathing room: they have taken the wins, climbed the stand ...

Ethan Salas is doing just enough lately to make Padres fans feel a little better, and just little enough overall to keep the bigger concern firmly on the table.

It's a bit of a rarity seeing players hailed for their success on both sides of the ball. Maybe it's because of the Shohei Ohtani of it all, but there are other ...

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 ...