San Diego Padres (1968-2024)

Chris Paddack’s meteoric rise reached a high point with seven strikeouts over five innings in his major league debut on Sunday.

The Padres and Mets chose the 25 best players for their Opening Day rosters, ignoring the future free agency status of Fernando Tatis Jr., Chris Paddack and Pete Alonso.

Service-time manipulation? Not in this instance, much to the delight of Fernando Tatis Jr. and Padres fans everywhere.

Urias, No. 31 on Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects list, hit just .224/.309/.429 in spring training and battled a tight hamstring.

San Diego hasn’t felt this type of excitement since 2015, and even then the Padres fell flat. Can this be different?

The Padres love Potts’ power. Now they want to enhance his versatility to see if he can complementManny Machado and Eric Hosmer in San Diego.

Bo Bichette scores twice in Montreal against the Brewers, Chris Paddack continues to impress and more.

Royals righthander Brady Singer is just weeks away from his pro debut, plus notes on some of the top arms in the Padres’ organization.

Alex Reyes and Dakota Hudson both post sterling stat lines, albeit in very different roles for the Cardinals, plus check-ins on three separate middle infield prospects.

Last year it was Max Muncy and Daniel Robertson. Who will this year’s crop of breakout stars be? We asked a dozen MLB scouts what has impressed them so far this spring.

Blue Jays No. 2 prospect Bo Bichette is making plenty of noise, Jesus Luzardo continues to look the part, Cristian Pache’s bat is impressing and more.

Pirates SS prospect Cole Tucker belts two homers, Hudson Potts handles the move to second base, and Yankees top prospect Estevan Florial looks healthy again.

We whiffed on stars like Altuve and Goldschmidt. Here’s what we learned, and how it impacts current prospects like Pete Alonso, Luis Urias and Nick Madrigal.

Tyler O’Neill is one of spring training’s most powerful bats, Richie Martin zeroes in on the Orioles starting SS job, and two Blue Jays pitching prospects have very different days.

The Mets, Padres and Reds are all teams we could see going from 2018 afterthoughts to teams with promise in 2019.

The Reds and Padres swung big in the offseason, but does that make them surprise contenders? Our MLB season preview bold prediction series focuses on sleeper teams in 2019.

Despite the free-agent signings of Eric Hosmer and Manny Machado, France is hopeful to carve out a role for the Padres in 2019.

Nine young-ish major league starters who might have aces up their sleeves—or not. But it won’t cost much to find out.

Padres prospect Fernando Tatis Jr. smacks a screaming line drive homer, Chris Paddack dominates, William Contreras shows why he’s one of baseball’s best catching prospects.