Here’s the latest from sunny San Diego…
- The Padres and Blue Jays are two of the teams who have shown interest in righty reliever Neftali Feliz, FOX Sports’ Jon Paul Morosi reports (via Twitter). Feliz was bothered by some arm problems late in the season, though he posted a solid 3.52 ERA, 10.2 K/9 and 2.9 K/BB rate over 53 2/3 innings out of the Pirates bullpen. The addition of Feliz would further bolster what is already looking like a strong Padres relief corps, though the Friars may not have the payroll resources of the Jays or the Nationals (another known Feliz suitor).
- The Padres have some talks with Erick Aybar as they look to once again add a shortstop, MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell reports, though GM A.J. Preller said that the team is primarily looking to the trade market for help at short. Luis Sardinas is the incumbent at the position in San Diego, though Preller himself mused that the situation is “pretty fluid,” as the Padres weigh finding competition for Sardinas, making a short-term signing or perhaps a larger transaction.
- Preller denied reports that the team was “aggressively shopping” third baseman Yangervis Solarte and said he would be fine with keeping Solarte in a Padres uniform. “He’s a guy that we definitely get hit on from other clubs,” Preller said. “I think from our standpoint, we’ll listen, but we’re not actively out there trying to drum up a market or anything like that.”
- The Padres have reached out to some of the six players they non-tendered earlier this week about returning on minor league deals, Cassavell reports. It would seem like Hector Sanchez is one of those contacted, as he is a candidate to return and Preller said the team is looking to add catching depth.
- In a tweet from Cassavell, the Padres will be meeting with Clayton Richard’s agent this week and remain interested in a reunion. Negotiations between the two sides are “still in early stages.” After being released by the Cubs in August, Richard signed on with San Diego and pitched well in 11 outings (nine starts), posting a 2.52 ERA over 53 2/3 innings, though his peripherals weren’t too impressive.
cardinals should get rid of peralta and carpenter and get solarte
Why in the world should the Cardinals get rid of Carpenter? He’s been their best player the past couple of seasons and is penciled in to be the starting 1B this year. He’s also signed to a relatively team-friendly contract for the next couple (few?) seasons.
You are kidding about carpenter I hope…bc that is just plain dumb
yes I was joking about carpenter
yes I am kidding about carpenter
Feliz told me on Instagram he’s going to try and come back to the Bucs
Calling bull. About him talking to you on instagram, not about him going back to the Pirates
As a Jays fan, not really a fan of going after Feliz. 38% GB rate(career 36%) with an elevated HR rate 2 of the past 3 years? Can’t see that fitting well in Toronto and the AL East.
Feliz would be a really nice piece to add to the bullpen in San Diego, I think he could possibly supplant Maurer in the closers role. Maurer looked way better in the 7th inning two years ago behind Benoit & Kimbrel than he did in the 9th this year after Rodney was traded.
A 7th/8th/9th of Maurer, Capps & Feliz would be pretty nice not to mention add Buchter & Hand to the equation and that has the makings of being a pretty elite unit. The team also has the 3rd pick in the rule 5 draft on Friday & could add another interesting arm to throw in the pen ala what they did with Perdomo last year. Interestingly enough another Perdomo, Angel the number 15 prospect of the Blue jays who pitched in the futures game in SD last year and is 6’8 is who I’m keeping my eye on Preller & company possibly selecting.
Perdomo is certainly intriguing. He gets a very wide range of prospect rankings as I’ve seen him as high as top 10(pre-draft) and as low as out of the top 30(also pre-draft).
I’ve seen him a few times and guy is huge but he has big guy issues, namely having difficulty repeating his delivery. Most also don’t see him stuff ever really playing up as a starter, most notably his breaking stuff grades out as being at best, potentially average.
I know some Jays fans were pissed he wasn’t protected but he was just so far away from the Jays roster that theirs very little chance he’d have provided value in the near future. I fully expect him to be taken at the Rule 5.
**most don’t see his stuff playing up as a starter.
Damn iPhone auto-correct lol
Angel Perdomo is 6’6″ and he really took a leap forward in terms of command and control of his FB this year and ended the season with 156 SO vs 54 BB in 25 starts/127 IP. His biggest problem was a lack of plus secondary pitches. He got stung pretty good on his slider. His changeup is a little better and may eventually develop into a MLB quality pitch.
He wouldn’t be a bad pick for the Padres in the Rule V draft, although I would prefer to see us take Yonny Chirinos, Drew Muren and Ismael Guillon.
Yeah I liked what I read up on Chirinos & Guillon, so I would be just as happy with either of those guys as I would be if we selected Angel Perdomo.
As far as trade chips are considered, I think once Logan & Dunn & Blevins come off the board in free agency then the attention will draw the the two Padre lefties.
A Solarte trade would get us a young arm to put in the rotation immediately plus some other intriguing prospects as well, that’s why the Dodgers make a lot of sense to me. Then you still have an extra outfielder whether it’s Dickerson or Jankowski to explore another trade for to even further bolster the rotation & possibly SS as well.
I do think Preller brings in a couple old friends from Texas this offseason as well though in the aforementioned Neftali Feliz & Derek Holland, they both make sense and Holland could pitch at the top of the rotation with a chance to rebuild value on a 1 year deal and a chance to get paid next offseason if he revitalizes his career at Petco.
Maurer had a better BAA, OBP against, OPS, and ERA in save situations in which he entered in the 9th inning in 2016 than he did in the 7th inning in 2014. He really only had one bad outing after he took over as the closer in July, that one on September 16th in Colorado.
Yeah Maurer would probably remain the closer, though it’ll be interesting to see how Capps pitches once he comes back from TJ surgery.
Other than Solarte, the only real valuable trade chips we have are Hand and Buchter. Don’t be surprised if one or both are traded.
And Myers (who is controllable for just as long as Solarte)
Why do the Padres even bother fielding a team?
Why bother commenting
+1
The Padres are the new Cubs. To be a Padre fan, you have to love the game for it’s own sake, without regard to wins and losses…because it feels like it could be 107 years before we win a World Series too.
True story. Go Pads!
By new Cubs, you mean future dominance of division. Padres have the #1 farm imo and I don’t think it’s close. Always trading for prospects but this time Preller has set up wave after wave after wave soon to hit San Diego. 2017 wave led by Renfroe, Hedges and Margot. That’s three in-house upgrades from last year, nice start.
Because people in San Diego like baseball, and true fans stick by their team through the highs and lows.