The Latest Breaking News from Bob Melvin

As Padres manager Bob Melvin laid out the expectations as Blake Snell settled back into the Padres’ rotation, a caveat was implied all along.

There's no secret sauce to the type of defense Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim has played while plugging the $340 million gap created by wrist-rehabbing star Fernando Tatis Jr.

It seems the Padres' penchant for living a baseball life with win-loss margins as thin as Rodeo Drive packing tissue owns a fresh and fitting color.

ATLANTA — Dinelson Lamet finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting in 2020.

SAN DIEGO — That was a lot to take in on a Wednesday afternoon.

Padres manager Bob Melvin announced Tuesday he will undergo prostate surgery and miss at least the next week of games.

This was pathetic.

SAN DIEGO — Imagine if a team traded for Mike Clevinger, Blake Snell, Fernando Tatis Jr. and a handful of quality relief pitchers in the next several weeks.

PITTSBURGH — In his first trip back to this city he loved living in, which is where he has often said he really began to learn the art of pitching, Joe Musgrove was five days removed from throwing the first no-hitter in Padres history.

As the Dodgers battered and sprayed baseballs around Petco Park on Sunday, a painful early-season reality became even more so for the Padres.

SAN DIEGO — Bob Melvin shifted in his seat on the bench, clenched his fungo a bit tighter and gave it two knocks with his knuckles. The Padres manager would have preferred the team’s errorless streak to start the 2022 season gone unaddressed in his pregame get-together with reporters. As…