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San Diego Padres Face Roster Challenges With Top-Heavy Lineup.

Learn about the San Diego Padres' challenges and roster adjustments for the 2024 MLB season.

Top News · Feb 29, 2024

MLB 2024 Spring Training Preview

Ohtani and the Dodgers will create quite a buzz this spring, but they're not the only story lines to track in the lead-up to Opening Day.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 20, 2024

Padres’ Xander Bogaerts Got ‘Thrown’ Out at Home in Maybe the Silliest Baserunning Blunder of MLB Season

The Giants did everything wrong but still got the out.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 3, 2023

Reds walk off on reeling Padres with 11th-inning home run

CINCINNATI — With two hits and two fly ball outs, the Padres tied Friday's game in the ninth inning. It was the kind of manufacturing and kind of late rally they have not produced often this season.

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2023

Pirates’ offensive resurgence suddenly looks like more than just smoke

PITTSBURGH — It may have been tough to see through the cloudy haze that enveloped Pittsburgh throughout the day on Wednesday and well into the night. But if you squinted hard enough, peering through the smoke, you saw that productive offense had returned to the North Shore.

Tribune News Service · Jun 29, 2023

Bryce Miller: Padres need to ask bigger questions after massively disappointing first half

It's time to look at the big picture for the flailing, lost Padres. In a 162-game season, offensive slumps routinely amount to micro problems. They come. They go.

Tribune News Service · Jun 28, 2023

Padres need 50 more wins, turnarounds from Jake Cronenworth, Xander Bogaerts for playoff push

What will it take for the Padres to reach the playoffs?

Tribune News Service · Jun 27, 2023

Michael Cunningham: Three Braves deserve to start in All-Star Game

ATLANTA — Six Braves players were on the National League’s All-Star team in 2022. Three of them won’t represent the team this year. Dansby Swanson and William Contreras play elsewhere, and injuries have limited lefty Max Fried to five starts. Yet the Braves still could send six players to MLB’s…

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2023

Big deficit, too many fizzled rallies doom Padres in loss to Guardians

SAN DIEGO — The improved San Diego Padres offense continued to do new things, but could not shake old habits.

Tribune News Service · Jun 16, 2023

Padres go up big early, take series opener from Guardians

A video montage that played on the Petco Park video boards late in games the Padres trailed throughout their first four home stands featured myriad offensive highlights from last season and a compilation of television commentators praising the team's lineup.

Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2023