The Latest Breaking News from Juan Soto

SAN DIEGO — The play ended in a chorus of boos, fans pelting objects onto the field and John Brebbia standing on the mound waiting to throw the next pitch. Somehow, some way, the red-bearded fellow was still preserving a lead.

Here's some good news Padres fans don't want to hear right now, and I don't blame them:

LOS ANGELES — To say acquiring Juan Soto (and Josh Bell, Josh Hader and Brandon Drury) took things to a new level for the Padres is like saying the traffic leaving Dodger Stadium can back up.

SAN DIEGO — When Padres CEO Erik Greupner and his college-bound son sat down Tuesday morning at The Original Pancake House in Encinitas, the baseball executive simply sought a father-son bonding moment and breakfast.

There were four different strategies that contending teams used at the trade deadline: 1) Make the necessary moves to improve for the rest of the regular season, with the hope being to secure one of the six playoff spots in each league and/or to ensure home-field advantage. 2) Build the…

SAN DIEGO — Surging fan interest in the Padres, accelerated by trade-deadline moves that included the addition of 23-year-old superstar Juan Soto, is expected to cause the franchise to implement the first season-ticket-sales cap in history.

SAN DIEGO — This high wasn’t going to last forever.

Everybody knows that the Braves don’t need to win the National League East to make the playoffs. There are three wild cards now, so they don’t even need to finish with one of the top two records for non-division winners. Getting in the postseason and then seeing what happens worked…

The trade deadline has come and gone and the annual tradition of grading each team’s moves or lack thereof is complete.