![]() The Padres need multiple starters and are likely to look for some kind of relief help after seeing Josh Hader hit free agency and flipping Scott Barlow to the Guardians for Enyel De Los Santos. Rebound candidate Luis Severino received a $13M guarantee from the Mets.Īdding someone of that nature could require all of the financial resources presently at the front office’s disposal. Martinez secured a $13M average annual value on his contract with Cincinnati. Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson signed with St. As shown on MLBTR’s contract tracker, the cost of back-end starting pitching has landed in the low eight-figure range early in the offseason. That probably wouldn’t be enough to add more than one notable starter. Lin wrote yesterday that the team was currently operating with around $10-20M in payroll space. That’d be difficult to accomplish via free agency. That’s nowhere near sufficient for a team that hopes to compete, meaning the Padres need to bring in at least two (ideally three) starters. (Martinez has already come off the board by agreeing to a two-year deal with the Reds.) Beyond Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove, the Padres have some combination of Pedro Avila, Jay Groome, Matt Waldron, Glenn Otto and Jairo Iriarte as rotation options. Each of Blake Snell, Michael Wacha, Seth Lugo and Nick Martinez hit free agency. Rotation depth is the biggest question facing president of baseball operations A.J. Both Passan and Dennis Lin of the Athletic expressed a similar sentiment. Brendan Kuty of the Athletic wrote on Wednesday that San Diego was looking for upper-level rotation help in Soto talks. If the Padres accelerate discussions on Soto with the Yankees or another team, it seems controllable starting pitching would be a focal point of the return. On Wednesday, SNY’s Andy Martino wrote that while San Diego and the Yankees continued ongoing dialogue, talks were still in their early stages and no deal was close. None would be as impactful as Soto, who could slot into left field to form an otherworldly corner outfield tandem with Aaron Judge. He took Hill deep to straightaway center field.Īlex Wood and Josh Fields combined to toss a scoreless eighth, but Yimi Garcia and Tony Cingrani struggled in the ninth so Kenley Jansen was required to come in and get the final two outs to complete the victory.The Yankees have made no secret of their desire to add a left-handed hitting outfielder. The Padres only run off Hill came on a home run in the sixth inning off the bat of outfielder Hunter Renfroe. ![]() He struck out seven without allowing a walk, requiring just 93 pitches. Hill completed seven innings for the first time since July 26, allowing just four hits and a run. ![]() The record-setting home run came in the bottom of the sixth inning when catcher Yasmani Grandal hit a solo home run that barely wrapped around the left-field foul pole.Īll of those runs were in support of left-hander Rich Hill, who turned in one of his strongest outings of the season. The three runs batted in gave Machado 100 total on the year between the Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles, which is the first time in his career that he has reached that milestone. The big swing of that inning came off the bat of Manny Machado, who launched a three-run home run to right-center off Padres starter Jacob Nix. They then added to that with five runs in the third to give them a commanding 6-0 lead. It marked his seventh leadoff long ball of the year, giving Los Angeles an early 1-0 lead. Joc Pederson got the home run party started early when led off the bottom of the first inning with his 24th home run of the season. The night was a particularly memorable one at Dodger Stadium because the Dodgers hit three home runs, giving them 222 total for the season, which breaks the franchise record of 221 that they set a season ago. The Los Angeles Dodgers bounced back from a series-opening loss to the last-place San Diego Padres on Saturday night, making a statement with a 7-2 win to lower their magic number to clinch the National League West to just seven.ĭRESS LIKE THE PLAYERS IN OUR EXCLUSIVE ‘WORLD SERIES ATTITUDE’ SHIRT ![]()
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