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If you follow “Baseball Bar-B-Cast”, you know that Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman bring the perfect combination of mind, statistics and real discussions. Their latest episode was no different, the Padres of San Diego occupying the front of the stage after the only scan of the weekend in MLB. Let's dive.
Programming: always heavy, always full of holes
Let's be real: the summit of the order of striker of San Diego is stacked. Fernando Tatis Jr., Luis Arraez, Manny Machado, Xander Bogaerts – All look solid, with Bogaerts in particular showing signs that he warms up.
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But then, the well dried up: as Jake says, “the paadres are the opposite (” no letup “alignments). There is a boost.” Jordan agrees, stressing that when the teams lean around the stars, the bottom of the San Diego range does not seem to punish the opposing launchers.
If you are wondering, this Sunday “low” included Luis Campusano, José Iglesias, Elias Díaz and Brandon Lockridge. Yuli Gurriel has now disappeared, so at least the organization turns the page on unhappy depth signatures.
The Joker: the return of Jackson Merrill
Jordan is at home a key point: Jackson Merrill – already one of the best young players in the game – has been MIA since he suffered a tension with the right hamstrings in early April. But he was expecting the return of injury this week, and his performance at the start of the Greesillage season.
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If he resumes where he stopped, the San Diego offensive could be really dangerous – not just “dangerous if” or “dangerous on paper”.
True History: pitching staff
This is where things become spicy. Did you know that the paadres have the era the lowest team in baseball? Their era of rotation is good, but their era of the enclosure of the lifts is a 1.73 fusion of the mind. Jake recognizes: “How long is it?” Not durable. But to get so low, you must be legitimately good. ”
Jordan breaks down why: Robert Suarez has become one of the most discreetly dominant farms in the MLB – no rupture ball, just fast bullets and dirty change. In addition, San Diego in Jason Adam (the key acquisition of several years of Tampa Bay), Jeremiah Estrada (24 ks in 16 sleeves) and a mixture of eccentric weapons such as Alec Jacob and Yuki Matsui. Without forgetting, there is the Renaissance project: Lefty Adrian Morejon, now a villain after starting has never completely clicked for him.
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Rotation: King and stops solid … But after that?
Michael King and Nick Pivetta have both exceeded expectations so far, but Dylan ceases, while hitting strikers, has had a more junk walk than hope. The real joker, however? Randy Vasquez.
Jake turns a fascinating story on Vasquez, which manages one of the lowest withdrawal rates of modern baseball, but which is still passed, despite more strikers than it strikes it. “Perplexing”, “actually wild” and “David Fletcher's pitching version” are part of the descriptions launched.
Jordan notes that Vasquez had real things of withdrawal as a perspective, so this act with a low walk and a high promenade is weird even according to the standards of Padres. But because the depth of San Diego evaporated after years of winning trades, the team lets Vasquez continue to try, even if it looks like a scientific experience that has become a thug.
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Hopes in playoffs and X factors
San Diego's is a list with extreme forces and blatant weaknesses – so much so that Jake compares them to the “scandalous depth” that Dodgers have and says: “I love (the paadres superior to the padres) compared to the Dodgers.”
Hope: If King, Pivetta and Ceop remain healthy, Merrill comes back strongly and the enclosure of the lifts does not fight, it is a group that could trace the NL in October. But the ground is there too. If the offense is becoming cold or if injuries accumulate, the lack of depth could come back to bite San Diego.
In the words of Jake and Jordan, the Padres are “a strange club” but damn good. If you only catch one paddle match this week, let it be a Randy Vasquez start – you will probably see some defense, a lot of traffic and baseball to its most funk. No team combines chaos and intrigue just like San Diego.
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