The Padres have signed general manager A.J. Preller to a three-year contract extension, Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Preller’s new deal will keep him with the team through 2022.
The Padres and Preller struck the agreement back in October, per Lin, who notes that the GM had been under control through 2019 until then. The team turned its full attention to securing Preller for the long haul after re-upping manager Andy Green through 2021 back in August.
The 2018 campaign will be the fourth full season in San Diego for Preller, whom the club hired in August 2014. Previously the Rangers’ assistant GM, Preller has created plenty of headlines since joining the Padres. The club was amid its ninth straight non-playoff season when it landed Preller, who tried to orchestrate a quick turnaround by trading for the likes of Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Craig Kimbrel, Melvin Upton Jr., Wil Myers and Derek Norris during his first offseason on the job. The majority of those acquisitions didn’t pan out as hoped, though, evidenced by the fact that San Diego hasn’t returned to the playoffs in the Preller era and Myers is the only member of that six-player group who’s still with the organization.
After Preller’s plan to immediately compete went belly-up, he reversed course and began a full-scale rebuild whose first significant move came by way of a November 2015 trade with the Red Sox. Preller sent Kimbrel to Boston in that deal, which netted the Padres a potential long-term building block in center fielder Manuel Margot. The 23-year-old Margot and the 28-year-old Myers (whom the Padres signed to a six-year extension last winter) rank as the most notable current Padres position players acquired under Preller, whose tenure has also included the astute addition of now-standout reliever Brad Hand via waivers in 2016.
Hand, 27, may soon turn into an extremely useful trade chip for a Padres team that’s not in position to push for a playoff spot yet, thus further beefing up a farm system that, thanks in part to Preller, has become one of the game’s best. That system includes Preller-acquired prospects in infielder Fernando Tatis Jr. (stolen from the White Sox for the fading James Shields in 2016); left-handers MacKenzie Gore, Adrian Morejon, Logan Allen and Joey Lucchesi; right-handers Michel Baez, Cal Quantrill and Anderson Espinoza; and shortstop Gabriel Arias. All nine of those farmhands rank among the Padres’ 10 best prospects, per Baseball America.
While Preller has impressed Padres brass during his time with the club, his reign has come with obvious black marks. The club lost catcher Yasmani Grandal in the Kemp deal, for one, and followed that by parting with young shortstop Trea Turner in the Myers trade. Both Grandal and Turner have since turned into more valuable big leaguers than the vets the Padres acquired for them.
Every GM has hit-and-miss trades, of course, but most executives don’t end up serving suspensions during their tenures. That hasn’t been the case for Preller, whom MLB issued a 30-day ban back in September 2016 for failing to disclose required medical information in the trade that sent lefty Drew Pomeranz to the Red Sox for Espinoza. In addition, a couple months prior to his suspension, the Preller-led Friars agreed to undo a portion of a swap with the Marlins, taking back injured righty Colin Rea after Miami learned about undisclosed medical information.
While the Padres’ front office was reportedly split on retaining Preller in the wake of his suspension, his extension makes it obvious that he has the support of team brass. Executive chairman Ron Fowler and managing partner Peter Seidler believe Preller and Green are the tandem that will eventually bring an end to the Padres’ playoff drought, perhaps by 2020, according to Lin.
“A.J.’s really earned this extension,” Seidler told Lin. “He’s built a great organization around him, and that’s seen from scouting all the way through Andy Green and the major league staff. Personally, I couldn’t be happier. We’ve got a ways to go, but I think it’s with confidence we extend him and with confidence we think we’re on the right path.”
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Yikes
Minus the stupid medicals, Preller has done a great job of rebounding after the all-in moves didn’t work. Have you seen their farm? It’s the most underrated in baseball.
the promise of prospects doesn’t actually mean he’s done a great job, must be happy loosing
He’s done a great job rebuilding the farm system, which should put them in a position to contend in a couple years.
Is he not the same Preller that destroyed the farm system? Boy Trea Turner would like nice at short
Treat Turner<Tatis Jr
Seriously? Trea Turner is a 3 WAR player in the Majors, at a premium position. Tatis Jr is a teenager who only has 50 odd AB’s at AA.
I know fans value their Teams prospects through the roof, but saying Tatis > Turner is just flat out stupid.
And there are questions about Tatis’ long-term viability at SS.
No, the farm system sucked when he arrived. He sold high on a bunch of mediocre prospects, with only Trea Turner really stinging. Fried, Eflin and Andriese haven’t been good, Joe Ross blew out his arm, Mallax Smith looks like a 4th OF and Jace Peterson looks like a triple A depth piece. A ‘where are they now” of the Padres 2014 Top 30 Prospects isn’t very impressive.
The only way you can say that Tatis>Turner is stupid is if you have not been paying attention.
Tatis is the #1 prospect in one of the top 2 farm systems in baseball for 2018. According to Baseball America prospect chat, he will be in the top 10 prospects in baseball next season at age 19. Eric Longenhagen of Fangraphs has also said in his prospect chat that he has him in the top 10 prospects for 2018. He is expected to crack the Padres squad at some point in 2018 and be the starting shortstop in 2019.
Tatis has 60 power, a better arm than Turner, has a 55 fielding tool to Turners 50, and the same 55 hit tool according to Baseball America. Tatis may have to move to 3B as he matures, but not for at least 6-7 years.
Turner is hoping to have his first full season at age 25, was injured twice in parts of 3 seasons, and has played just 97 games of below average defense at SS. Most scouts believe he does not the footwork or arm strength to stay at SS. I think they may be wrong if he can ever stay healthy.
Today Turner is the more valuable player as measured by WAR. By 2019 that may not be true.
Trea Turner was never. and will never. be able to put the Padres on his back and carry them to any title! He’s already been bit by a wrist injury. He will never be as valuable as Wil Myers. The FARM was crap the TEAM was crap he flipped the team the players didn’t click fast enough and he flipped the TEAM and the FARM for the better.
He’s already more valuable than Wil Myers. And no one said he would be able to put the Padres on his back and carry them to a title. But neither will Myers.
Wrong, wrong n WrongO.
Wil is more valuable to the Padres 30 bombs on a terrible year says so. his contract ext says so. and the mere fact that AJ traded Turner away saaaaaaayz so.
Ownership and Management made the decision that Myers would be the cornerstone guyer to put the team on his back hence the trade decision and the contract extension.
Lastly you and everyone else who is sooooooo enamored with boy wonder Trea Turner must believe he can carry a team since he is the gold n prized gem prospect we threw away.
I like Trea he hustles and plays the game right but Wil will hit a ball and throw his bat thinking he didn’t get enough of it and has to play it off rounding the bases when it lands in the stands.
Get the picture?
I have to 100% agree with Cam, he’s being a douche, but you can’t compare Turner to Tatis.
Just by using WAR, you can easily see that Trea Turner is by far more valuable than Wil Myers (6.4 vs 7.4 in a lot less time). Good defense, speed and not striking out a ton of times is very valuable, who would have guessed?
2nd or 3rd ranked and underrated? BA is saying they could have as many as 10 guys in the top 100 with Tatis leading the pack in the top 10.
The Fryers got “Prellered”?
He has rebuilt the farm system and it looks pretty great now, but of course, prospects are just prospects; sometimes they turn into the Houston Astros, where they all develop at once into major league regulars, and sometimes, well, it’s the Braves or whatever. The pitching is lagging well behind the hitting, but that’s normal. Hedges is probably never going to hit but the glove will keep him in the majors for a decade. Margot is going to be a very good player, I think. Hunter Renfroe doesn’t look like much but maybe he puts some of his defensive issues behind him and develops some plate discipline; I’m less hopeful with him. The medical stuff was stupid and I’m assuming lots of teams were doing it so the league cracked down on somebody to send a message. Obviously, the results on the major-league level haven’t been there, and I don’t think anybody can understand that “all-in” offseason, but Preller should be allowed to shepherd the process he started.
Pitching is where the Padres have the most impact prospects. 7 of their top 10 according to BA. Other than Urias and Tatis, there are no elite prospects that are close to the majors.
Lol, you said that tanking for draft picks isn’t a good strategy even though the last four World Series winners and their opponents built their teams that way, at least to some extent.
The Giants? I’d disagree on the Giants. Padres best position prospect wasn’t drafted by the Padres and their best young major leaguer wasn’t drafted by the Padres. I think prospects are important but I don’t know that hoping on a high draft pick is the best way to get prospects, except for Bryce Harper or Strasberg-types of drafts.
Tim Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey were all top 10 draft picks. Really, the best example of drafting well vs. drafting high would be the Dodgers and their best player was a homegrown top 10 draft pick.
All a team’s regular season is is a means of determining who makes the playoffs, who plays who in the playoffs and who gets home-field advantage. It’s been proven that drafting higher is advantageous. We can argue about how much more advantageous. Obviously it’s not worth missing the playoffs or losing your home field advantage but the Padres weren’t going to make the playoffs anyway so what exactly do they lose by tanking other than games they were going to lose anyway? You can’t honestly tell me the Padres are better off today for being stuck in the middle for most of the last 10 years. Don’t say “drafting well is more important than drafting high” because that implies that the two are mutually exclusive. You are allowed to do both.
When again did the Giants tank?
2005-2008 when they only won 45% of their games and bottomed out at 71 wins in 2007. Got four straight top 10 picks out of that and hit in a huge way on three of them. The best of the bunch was the one they got out of that 71 win season.
I wish I could have no success at work and still get extensions
Define “success.” The job of a GM is different for every team; for the Yankees or red Sox or Giants it is to keep the major league team in contention year after year. For Luhnow or Preller the job is to create a window of opportunity to win before the home-grown talent gets too expensive for the market size. Think of what happened in KC. That’s the best-outcome scenario for a small-market team and requires a patient GM and ownership group.
BS for Luhnow/Preller, how hard is to pick 1st in every round, spend huge $ International, they get the Beene excuse? oh what have they done?
There’s a difference between what small market and big market teams have to do to compete. Preller is doing everything he can with the resources available to him.
Rebuilding takes long. He’s doing what he’s supposed to do
Totally agree with both comments
Rebuilding from some horrible deals, remember that?
Yeah, padres really miss jace peterson, matt wisler, and the rest of the prospects that havent worked out well for the teams.
aside from turner trade (not missing joe ross) he didnt trade anyone they needed long term.
Boom
With the exception of the Wil Myers trade, all of Preller’s bad moves were bad because of who he got in the trade rather than who he gave up. On Matt Kemp, his trade value was so far underwater it was nothing short of a miracle that the Dodgers got ANYTHING for him, let alone Yasmani Grandal. Justin Upton was a rental, the Padres were never going to compete in 2015 and he was never going to take an extension so regardless of what you think of the prospects given up in that trade, they had more value to us than Upton. That trade should have either not been made, or Preller should have taken Fulmer for Upton when it was offered. Craig Kimbrel was an unneeded luxury. The Padres were the last team in MLB that needed to overpay for a closer. Preller only got better prospects back when he traded Kimbrel because he didn’t attach a bad contract to him.
Didn’t you also say that Upton would never take an extension with the Angels? How is that working out for you?
Yep and he really shouldn’t have done that. He’d have gotten more money FROM THE ANGELS as a free agent. Also, didn’t a bunch of people call me a jerk/not a good fan for denying that Upton would extend with the PADRES or even accept the qualifying offer? Who ended up being right about that?
Oh and you also wanted us to extend Carter Capps who probably isn’t going to pitch in 2018.
P.S. I see you downvoting my comments.
The point is you were wrong about that too. You always try to act so certain and then you are wrong.
Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.
And I like how you just ignore the part about Carter Capps and you downvoting my comments because you are too much of a coward to admit it. Either address my whole comment or don’t reply.
I agree, this extension shows that the owners believe in what Preller is doing. Maybe in the next couple of years, we’ll finally get to see if his work pays off.
Go work for your local city government, or any government job. You’ll be rewarded for mediocre performance.
What was the trade that got Myers to SD?
That was the three-team trade with like ten players involved. The Padres made a pretty big mistake on that one, getting Myers but losing Trea Turner, whois a more valuable asset for sure.. All the ther players involved in that trade have been non-factors.
Myers has a 4.8 fWAR over the past two seasons, while Souza has produced 5.0 wins by the same measure. Myers put up 3.9 fWAR in 2016 as a pre-arb player, and Souza accumulated all five of his wins pre-arb. While I’d take the Turner/Joe Ross side of this deal every time, Myers and Souza certainly have not been non-factors.
Sorry, I meant the other players the Padres dealt were non- factors.
Make up your mind Davidcoonce. Can’t have it both ways
Three team deal that sent Myers from Rays to Pads; Souza from Nats to Rays; and Joe Ross and Trea Turner from Pads to Nats. Not one of Preller’s finest…
Myers is 26, not 28.
Myers will be 27 in one week. He will play at 27 all through 2018 season. So he is 27
What you really said is he’s 26.
Giving Myers all that money, just the latest miss fire by AJ (another jackass). “I am doing good work boss, but it will be 5 years before I can prove it.”
Then let home go free agency, you will me the whole league happy (extending Myers was exactly the right thing to do)..
I am not a padres fan, but most of these Padres comments are foolish. Sounds like (many of you) think you should do ‘nothing’..
Give peeler credit, he took a shot in year 1. It didn’t pan out, look at what he got back for your rebuild. Home run? You won’t know for 2-3 years (aka 1 year delayed than if he hadn’t taken a crack at winning in year 1). … was he a total bust? Not even close
Yeah it amazes me how many people who claim they are Padres fans bash this guy for doing what other GMs of small market teams have to do to: conduct a year’s-long rebuild.
It’s obvious when you have a bad team, you are going to be privileged in the draft, therefore SD has stockpiled prospects. No secret there! And if the owners approve to go to the international draft and buy prospects, there’s another source to aquire prospects. No secret! But Preller is so inept that he doesn’t even know what it takes to be very bad to tank!
That’s the thing though, why do so many people say he is inept? Is it because of the trea tuner trade? The Myers extension? The medical records incident?
The team did better than expected last year and yet people still bash them because they didn’t tank well enough? That’s just ridiculous. I’ll admit, I went into the season thinking they were going to have a high chance of getting the first pick. But by the end of the season, the fact that they did better than expected shows that they are making more progress than people give them credit for. The team is slowly getting better, and they still have a top 10 pick next year.
When I think of an inept GM, I think of someone like Reuben Amaro Jr. Preller is far from that.
There was no expectations last year, so how could they do better, can you imagine AJ in uniform, coaching, come on! Maybe in HS, OK.
Boy that GM is really bad because the 3 Rule 5 draft picks and the 6 position players he started that were rookies or had a year or less of MLB service time and 3 of the 4 has-been starting pitchers he signed all over-produced at the same time. What is he thinking? LMAO.
Common sense isn’t common is it?
Preach it! Haters don’t have a clue. They think they know but they don’t know Sheeeeeeit.
Stay Classy
An extension? Hahaha
Shady guy–you can’t not mention his suspensions with the Rangers and the Padres for his shady dealings. Sure, give him an extension.
Always good to see someone in a high position with a lack of integrity get rewarded.
Exactly, after doing absolutely nothing, but trickery
How is AJ Preller not banned for life from MLB?
He held back medicals in the trade with Miami .. he didn’t ‘launder’ money through foreign (player) agents to give to other players.. he didn’t ‘fail to disclose’ bonus payments to the league.. he didn’t ‘break into the astros computer system’ …
He did nothing that most front offices haven’t done. He got caught because the 1st game that the player threw in for Miami’s A ball team, he got injured (hence the questions to the kid, back to the Padres, etc)
John Copoppelo and Chris Correa got banned for life. How does AJ Preller get a 30 day suspension for having parallel sets of medical records on players?
MLB obviously thinks/thought that what those 2 did was a lot worse then what Preeler and Co. did. Also, Mike Dee being let go shortly after the medical stuff came out would lead me to believe he was behind it and not Preller.
That’s only part of it
He was in trouble long before he arrived in San Diego. He had been suspended for negotiating with a suspended player and got caught setting up illegal workouts before the international signing period a few years back. He has quite the record, and you make it sound like falsifying medical records is a minor offense and common practice. It’s not.
Even the San Diego Union Tribune put out an article raising the question if the Padres were becoming a hateable team because of his misgivings, echoing the tone of many respectable names throughout baseball. Preller lacks integrity, which is why so many people question his presence in baseball.
It was with the Red Sox, not the Marlins and it was all about withholding that Pomeranz was taking Ibuprofen. The system that even made that possible was put in place by Dee and he did get fired.
Only contracts these GMs are signing is with themselves.
Why? When he had the money & all the support failed miserably (2014-15). What makes the owners think that he’s going to build a good team? He’s taken more bad decision than good ones, by far. Regarding the farm system, he’s also taken very bad decision, specially on the MLB draft, selecting obvious choices over far reaches (Potts, Reed, etc).
That’s more of the Self Diagnosed Great One, LW
Potts saved them 2 million on his slot value Which was used to help pay for overslot deals to other players.
The obvious choice may have wanted an at slot or overslot deal. Also, Gavin Lux and Delvin Perez were taken ahead of where the padres drafted.
Padres just raise prospect to sell high and buy more cheaper prospect or trade them. They don’t plan to win they plan to lose.
He’s not planning to lose are you an idiot?
Even if he wanted to field the worse team, so SD could be among the first three picks of the draft, he doesn’t even have that capacity. WORSE GM in MLB BY FAR!!
Michael Hill, Dan Duquette and Walt Jocketty would like to have a word with you outside…
He’s a middle of the pack GM. Not top 5 but there are plenty worse GMs in MLB.
I’ll trade you Mozelok for a sack of ummm….potatoes!
Who is Mozelok?
Big baseball fan right?
Sucks…
Looks like San Diego’s going to suck for the next 10 years now! Going to take 5 solid years to clean up this jokes mess!
“This joke” is doing what Epstein and Hoyer have done in Chicago. How can there be praises sung for them, and Luhnow, but when Preller and Co. are attempting the same thing, he is a joke? The Cubs were apparently set up years of winning, but could not repeat, does that make Epstein and Hoyer useless?
He must know some compromising secrets of the owners private life, there’s no other valid argument for an extension when you make a team worse & get obligations on dead money!
He’s screwed some teams over, intentionally or not, with damaged goods but he’s built a really good farm with a ridiculous amount of depth so overall he’s done a good job
Pomeranz hasnt missed a start for the red sox.
Cashner and rodney were healthy, but sucked.
Rea got hurt during his 3rd inning of work for the marlins.
Meanwhile, paddack had TJS (rodney piece) and espinoza had TJS (pomeranz piece).
Nobody got screwed by preller. Tell us how pomeranz not missing a start in a year and a half screwed the red sox and how rea getting hurt during his outing and rescinded the trade screwed the marlins.
Marlins screwed themselves trading castillo again for straily.
It’s mostly been the teams screwing themselves but I mean the dude got suspended for poor trade conduct, he’s definitely not perfect. However, I didn’t mean to insult him or anything I am jealous of the job he has done rebuilding the Friars so far, he’s gotten solid to elite prospects for very mediocre MLB players and in the case of Tatis for Shields he did an incredible job.
I like it.
I can’t believe how many people are mad about this.
It’s a lot like politics–if you are perceived to be able to produce, or, when doing the wrong thing wear the right uniform, all is forgiven.
Yeah boi AJ preller is good for SD whoever thinks otherwise doesnt follow the pads
It remains to be seen what San Diego will do with their future core of young players, but regardless of what the Padres do, it’s how Preller has conducted himself and how it relates to all of baseball that irks people. That should be understandable.
Which is 90% of MLB fans, why follow a bunch of losers?
Interesting, their shortstop of the future is already 42 years old.
Huh?
I am a Padre fan as well as a Preller fan, but that is pretty funny!
Yes!
It just amazes me how so many people who I see on here (along with those whom I talk to in real life) who claim they are Padres fans bash this guy for everything he’s done so far. Just look at this comments section, where people seemingly can’t believe that he has been extended. If anything, he deserves the extension with all the work he has done so far.
The whole philosophy behind his plan is to rebuild the team from the ground up. Yes, it does not happen overnight, and people seem to not understand this. A small market team like this needs to go through these phases if they ever want to have a chance of legitimately contending in the future. It’s what needs to be done.
There’s also the whole medical records in incident everyone always goes back to. The thing this, people always seem to forget about Mike Dee. That guy probably did more bad to the team than Preller has done. He’s the one who was behind that whole procedure with the medical records that got the team in trouble. This was already on top of other stunts he pulled, like his alleged “meddling” in the baseball side of the front office, even though he was supposed to strictly work the “business side” of the operations. Hence the team decided to keep Preller while Dee was shown the door.
Preller is not perfect, but is is far from a horrible GM. The “all in” strategy did not work, and they did lose Grandal and Turner, but most of the other guys they gave up have not done anything significant. (Maybe Fried or Bauers become decent players, but I think we have better replacements for them now in guys like Gore and Naylor). Remember, Dee was still with the team at this time as well, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he had put in his own two cents on that whole fiasco.
What they’re doing now is exactly what they should be doing. Their farm is looking great and for the first time in a while, they Padres actually have a plan they are following, thanks to this guy.
My man
He’s been fantastic.
I think there are a couple tricks up his sleeve for this off season.
Well said. Can’t wait to hear what an awful GM Preller is and how bad Ohtani is when he chooses the Padres.
Doesn’t matter if Ohtani is a bust. There is no risk involved, tool
Keep hating on Preller! If you knew anything about being a Padres fan it’s that we have pretended for the last 15 years to try and contend. We had to deal with a 10 year set back thanks to Jon Moore’s divorce and selling to the snake oil salesmen in Moorad who’s plan all along was to have the lowest payroll, just so he could flip the team in few years and double what he paid for the team.
In regards to 2015 “all in”, you can’t say those trades for the Uptons, Kimbrel, Norris were foolish. Melvin had the best season in years who we flipped for a decent prospect, Justin had a terrible season but just signed a massive extension, Keno was a bust, surely, but having Hedges waiting in the wings was a good reason to part w him, plus we got an All Star in Norris, who ended being a head case, Kemp was butt hurt he was traded and was lazy, Kimbrel had his worst season, and was flipped for better prospects than what we gave up, Myers trade was a mistake, but the front office was who advised him to “go for it” and he got a potential, at the time star in Myers. He bad a down year last year, but he’s not a bust, and let’s wait a few years before we crown who won that trade.
The medical record debacle was bs and it turns out we are the ones who got screwed.Espinoza had TJ, and Paddack as well, so don’t fine that ish. Pomeranz was a top 20 AL pitcher and Castillo looks to be a future stud. Preller took the fall publicly for that, but Mike Dee is the one who got fired for it…read up.
I am stoked Preller has so many haters, it means you’re afraid of him. His scouting is as good as they come, finding waiver gems( minus we gave up on Straily) but Padre fans finally have direction .
Our farm is deep, our top 11-20 prospects are better than half the teams top 10. Can’t wait to watch these kids develop. We haven’t had home grown talent since the likes of, wait for it…Khalil Greene and Sean Burroughs
You would be better served watching all your prospects develop than watching your 3A team play in the ML! Boom!
Best 71-91 GM in all the land…..
Ha, oh sammy boi, you sound like a typical, uneducated doyers fan. Spoon fed a team w an enormous payroll and think you know anything.
Right!!!!?? Man what a treat this year was to see the Doyers LOSE THE WORLD SERIES AT HOME!!!!! HAHAHAHAA Clown! the BEST GM in all the Land is taking notes and following the blueprints of the Team that bested YOU at HOME in GAME SEVEN! So how does it feel being the west coast Yankees with all that money and no trophy? You Sound like the rest of us saying next year. Go buy Stanton….. won’t do you any better. Seriously if you couldn’t get the job done with the salary your teams already forked out / I mean Kershaws salary is like the Astros entire payroll
worst 104-58 team across the USA.
I like Preller, he did the old “I want my players” thing, it didn’t work, he tore it down, and hes build a top 5 farm system in like two years. Of course the Padres are going to be bad when you sell off everyone with a smidgen of talent
He seemed like a natural fit to jump over to the Braves organization
Good one Tom!
1. Gabrial Arias isnt a top prospect. Did you mean Luis Urias? The link takes you to a page about some 27 year old Phillies farm hand.
2. Also, among the list of talented top prospects wouldnt josh naylor be included who the padres swiped in the cashner deal?
Yes he is. 17 yes old ss ranked #10 by BA
This was the link to the gabriel arias. baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ari…
They also left Urias off the list.
Urias is #6 on the Baseball America list. He fell because Morejon, Baez and Tatis had great seasons and climbed up the list. He is still the Padres 2B of the future.
They know a lot!
Naylor was bumped out if top 10 by Arias according to Badler
Was bumped out for overeating, DH in the NL
Arias is top 10 according to BA and on Fangraphs prospect chat Eric Longenhagen has said he will be the Padres shortstop of the future. Considering that Tatis is a top 10 prospect in baseball for 2018, that would indicate to me that Aria is an elite prospect. Urias is an exceptional hitting prospect, but his future is at 2B.
Naylor was a steal in the Cashner deal. Absolutely. He is what, 19 or 20, and ended the season in AA and then tearing up the AFL against advanced competition.
Great news
Extended him long enough to see if his plan worked
I believe it will
Padres extend Preller who had two years left on his deal. Hahahahaha
I guess the wanted to lock him up to not lose him even though no other team would want him. Way to bid against yourself Padres!
Padres doubling down on AJ “the mistake hiring” Preller. He is a joke
Name your top 5 GM’s
His number one it’s cope
Preller is far from a joke. He’s miles better than GMs like Dave Stewart or Reuben Amaro Jr.
Who are no longer GM’s, great comparison meat!
“Who are no longer GMs”
And their ineptitude is what led them to not having jobs anymore. On the other hand, Preller gets an extension. Again, if he was really as bad as people think he is, he would have suffered the same fate as Amaro and Stewart already have.
The only one who he made a mistake on was including a PTBNL in the trade which turned out to be Turner Nats lucked out there. And the Kemp trade hurt but he was a big name and San diego was trying to make a splash. He brought in his draft and scouting department which has done wonders finding guys with value that other teams give up on. I dont think any other GM out there would be as convincing to owners to go all out 1 yr and sign alot of Intl guys which alot will help contribute 2020 and moving forward. Kimbrel and pomeranz trade was good for both sides. Cashner got us Capps,Cozart,Josh Naylor. The cahill and buchter trade got us strahm and esteury ruiz. Our old prospects arent really stars. He did mess up by not taking Michael fulmer for half a season of Justin Upton but no GM is perfect. I hope he stays in SD for another 10 years he at least isint afraid of making moves
Bottom line, since the infamous 2015 season, under AJ Preller, the SD Padres record is 213-273!!!
But the “farm system” = prospects = promises = sucks!
The so called rip off, aquiring Tatis jr for Shields, let’s get things straight, the boy just played at single A ball (he got some ABs at AA), he’s at least two years from reaching the big leagues.
Shields’ contract was underwater. It was a miracle Preller got anything for him. Let alone Tatis.
Can Tatis Jr play game before calling him a “steal”
Can you post a relevant, insightful, grammatically correct comment before we call you a “commenter?”
The question is: on the three years and a half that Preller has with the organization, the Padres are a better or worse team?
Product on the field: same. Farm system: better. Presence of a real shortstop: worse
Farm system: The international signings were good, specially Morejon & Baez.
I think that the Padres are going on the right direction, but I don’t think Preller has the aptitud to make them World Series champs. My argument is that when he had the opportunity to do it, ’cause he had money and support from ownership, he made several mistakes that were relevant, like considering that Myers was an apt CF & Kemp would be able to cover the vast RF of SD, also not aquiring a competent shortstop & getting rid of Yasmany Grandal for bad fielding Derek Norris.
What I mean with this is that he never considered that a good sound baseball team starts with a solid middle of the field.
Product on the field: worse (Grandal, Turner, Alonso, Maybin) Farm system: ?? Who knows what players would have been selected in the draft with another GM, the reality is that Preller has had three drafts (they lost one first rounder for signing James Shields) then the next year had the number 8 pick and selected Quantril, 25th pick and selected Hudson Potts (extreme reach, was ranked 92 by MLB) & 26th pick and selected Eric Lauer (considered a 4-5 starter); then with the number 3 pick this year they selected McKenzie Gore (good pick but time will tell if they blew by letting Kyle Wright pass.
Lol Grandal, Alonso and Maybin.
And the Padres farm system is eons better than it was 3 years ago. Only prospects Preller traded away that have even the slightest chance of hurting are Turner, Ross, Bauers and Fried. The real issue with the trades made during Prellerpalooza is the players he actually acquired in those trades. Kemp’s contract was underwater, Justin Upton wasn’t controllable long enough to be useful to us and Kimbrel was an unneeded luxury. The one thing I feel Preller doesn’t get nearly enough heat for is not trading his pending free agents at the 2015 and 2017 trade deadlines. People say “The returns he was offered weren’t good enough” but the alternative was to just let those players walk for absolutely jack SQUAT!
Some real hate and mocking in this thread. Reminds of all the negativity thrown at the Astros 2011-2014.
I honestly love teams that go full rebuild, and this has only become popular recently.
The Cubs and Astros both won with a rebuild. The Royals went through a long build. Over the next few decades, it will be interesting to see how many full rebuilds result in World Series victories.
The Deal Is Pending His Medicals….
Wow, amazing comment! Seriously, that was the best thing I’ve ever read! Can you comment again?
Does anyone else miss the days when the comment section was moderated for name calling and other slurs? Now if you disagree with the wrong person, you can be called anything under the sun. This is still a great site, but when Disqus was used for the comments, the commenting and commenters were much better in my opinion.
Seeing all the stuff people write in these comments sections, I definitely agree with you. Case in point, one guy in this thread called another guy a “homo” for agreeing with my post. Real mature buddy…
But have you seen all the flame wars in the popular articles for Stanton and Ohtani? It’s as bad as a YouTube comments section.