The Padres are still trying to trade right fielder Wil Myers in the hour or so remaining until the trade deadline, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Padres GM A.J. Preller has been a whirlwind of activity in the last few days, adding Juan Soto, Josh Bell, Josh Hader, and Brandon Drury while shipping out Eric Hosmer, Luke Voit, and a slew of young players.
Myers, 31, signed a six-year, $83MM extension with the Padres in January 2017, and it seems like they’ve been trying to unload the contract most of the time since then. While Myers surged to a 123 wRC+ from 2020-21, he sits at just 68 this year in 138 plate appearances after missing over two months with knee inflammation. He came off the IL yesterday and played first base while batting fifth, and is doing so again in the Padres’ current afternoon tilt against Colorado.
At this stage, Myers is owed about $7MM this year plus a $1MM buyout for 2023, a moveable amount if Preller can identify and include any prospects he’s yet to trade. During the offseason, the Padres seemed intent on staying under the $230MM competitive balance threshold. Given all of their additions of late, ducking under for 2022 would be an impressive feat.
Of course they are.
Yeah, newsflash!
He hit into a DP last inning – Trade him!!!
Hey! We resemble that remark…! Ha
Surprised Bloom wasn’t in on him too if the right prospect was added. Might still happen.
You don’t have the cap space to eat his contract.
Who doesn’t? If JDM is dealt (which I hope not), there is.
Wait, you watch the games? Most people here just play GM
What prospects do the Friars have left to entice any other team to take on Myers?
Merill
Campusano
A lot. They won’t miss anyone they traded besides CJ Abrams and Ruiz. Both of those guys will end up being good, otherwise they are suspects.
I think they will miss Gore, too.
Two years now. One decent year, same as Hosmer in 20, then pfft. Good luck on that.
Jed for Myers
AJP is my daddy
Aka “padres keep calling Chaim bloom”
That’s what I’m afraid of. Bloom has spent three offseasons trying to get Myers and Preller might be high enough right now to agree to pay him for the rest of the season
Take him if the total package helps moving forward.
Chaim
My thoughts exactly
And the sky is blue!
Why are the Pirates not getting in on this stuff??????
They could take on Hosmer and Myers and still be under 60M in payroll. Not that the Pads have any prospects left but give us Campusano to take the crap off your hands.
Call Beantown for The Hoz
I know, now, but I had that idea years ago that it would have been a perfect fit. And sadly he’d be the best 1B they had the past 20 years since the Josh Bell era.
I agree – that is likely the guy that would go with Meyers. Pirates already have a stud C in the offing, so they’d need someone else.
Campusano can play now though since the position is a mess, and Henry Davis is injured. If they both can hit, in two seasons, one can play 1B or DH.
But we have Yoshi and JVM! God help us or maybe the Padres?
They should of traded Myers to Washington instead of Voit. Now Hosmer gets to go to Boston, a lefties dream to hit at Fenway, after refusing to go to the Nationals. Get ‘em’ Voit!
Not sure that Washington would have taken that. Hosmer and Voit can hit. Myers can’t.
Maybe they should HAVE. Stay in school, kid.
@StPeteStingRays- hey it’s Mr. Sting Ray himself. I wish you my best, rooting for your loser team. Good luck.
Meyers and prospect to bos for Jbj
Jbj is equally as bad. No need for prospect
He only makes sense if you got underwater contracts to trade with, and attach prospects
Dom smith and Ruf for Myers, much wrather have Myers over Ruf let’s flip him.
he just grounded into a inning ending double play with the bases loaded lol
LOL – Right on cue. Padres down 2-0 to the Rox.
See, a perfect fit for the Pirates!
Attach a prospect, make sure the next GM has totally nothing to work with. AJ is smart like that.
Preller gets some grief when his moves don’t work out but I have to give the Pads props for remaking their team today. That dude has a serious set of stones on him.
Does he? Or is the luckiest GM in the game to have the owners he does?
Angels should try Rasiel Iglesias and Stassi for Meyers Pomeranz and prospects-
Yes Pom is owed 10 mill next year but that’s what gets ya the prospects and deal – Get to shake RI and Stassi money as well long term. Prellers living paycheck to paycheck perfect guy to get one over on if you scratch there {immediate} backs as well a little
SD does not need RI or a catcher.
Preller does realize that they are playing a game right now, right? Can Azocar or Batten play first base? Did any of the pitchers play first in high school?
Crone
Cronenworth can play 1st:)
Can he play CF?
Going to have to eat that contract..
It’s funny since most of the new Padre fans in here haven’t heard of him.
Shouldn’t be hard after all Pads Fans said from like 5 different accounts that there were no better outfielders than Myers who were available for less money than he is making and muted everyone who disagreed.
You two need to get a room, your bickering is borderline embarrassing. One of the funnest days in our history and yet you moan about nothingness, good grief LH. Let it go. Peace
He needs to answer for his BS and stop hiding behind the mute button. Does the same thing on Friarhood.
I agree Gwynning. Pot meet kettle, Ryan.
This is the internet. He doesn’t need to do anything for you.
Don’t let things online eat you up dude.
Hey look it’s Padres2019ha aka “The Dude” on EVT who STILL won’t atone for his “Noah Syndrergaard for Wil Myers” trade proposals and “trade for JT Realmuto and just extend him” proposals and his assertion that the Padres HAVE to trade for good players first to be able to sign them later (Manny Machado says hi).
Needs to do it for himself.
You sound like rainman. Definitely, definitely sound like rainman
You sound like a kid trying to deflect from his horrible HORRIBLE takes.
You should change your name to “Bad Takes R Us”
“Myers, 31, signed a six-year, $83MM extension with the Padres in January 2017, and it seems like they’ve been trying to unload the contract most of the time since then.”
That’s what made that Hosmer contract so bizarre; why would you do the same thing like a year later?
LOL not only did Preller trade Trea Turner for Wil Myers he made sure that Myers would make more than Turner too. To date Wil Myers has cost the Padres $23m more than Trea Turner earned over the same time.
Preller is an awesome circus act/ reality show. He is actually a really bad GM.
Preller’s MO, think now, not later. Only thing that matters is now!
Padres were desperate for national recognition. If you subscribe to the, “there’s no such thing as bad press” idea then all those years of people laughing at SD paid off in the sense that people were now talking about the Padres.
Wil Myers and Blake Snell to the Rays for Brett Phillips. Make it so!
We don’t have room for either of those two overgrown kids.
Angels have an outfield opening and a lack of prospects. Come on Arte, buy one here.
I’m with you, HHJJ. The Angels will pay Meyers salary in full if the Pads throw in a prospect.
The Astros will take him for a Firehouse Sub and Macys gift card.
When Myers first came up, he reminded me of Dale Murphy – the build, skillset, swing. I don’t think I expected him to be a back-to-back MVP like Murph, but I thought he’d be a very productive, All-Star caliber kind of guy.
He turned out to be a lot more like Phillies/Rockies era Murph than I would have ever guessed.
The sound of the bat when he connected squarely with a ball was deafening. Dude had perennial star written all over. What a disappointment…
Maybe the Red Sox will take him too.
Think I’d rather have Gallo lol