The Padres have agreed to a deal with infielder Mike Brosseau, as announced by his Icon Sports Management agent Joe Rosen. While not specified by Rosen, it can be assumed that Brosseau signed a minor league contract.
Brosseau has a career .242/.313/.428 slash line in 647 career big league plate appearances with the Rays and Brewers from 2019-23. Primarily a second and third baseman during his five MLB seasons, Brosseau has also seen action at first base, shortstop, and both corner outfield slots, with this versatility making him a useful part-time roster piece. He also provided good numbers at the plate in his first two seasons and in 2022, which was his first season in Milwaukee.
Unfortunately for Brosseau, he struggled to a .654 OPS in 78 PA in 2023, leading the Brewers to outright him off the roster that July and then release him so Brosseau could pursue a deal in Japan with the Chiba Lotte Marines. The 37-game stint in NPB didn’t work out for Brosseau and he returned to North American baseball in 2024, hitting .263/.356/.417 over 405 combined PA with the Triple-A affiliates of the Royals and Mets.
Padres first baseman Luis Arraez and second baseman Jake Cronenworth are both left-handed hitters, as are projected backups Tyler Wade and Trenton Brooks. Brosseau could be viewed as a complement to Wade to give the Padres some utility infield coverage on both sides of the plate, and both Wade and Brosseau can play all over the diamond. Brosseau also has a minor league option year remaining, giving San Diego some potential flexibility in moving him back and forth from Triple-A over the course of the season.
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Nobody knows what that means, Harambe.
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The move SD fans have been waiting for! Open the floodgates
Now all the complaining from Pads fans can stop. They just finished their offseason with this beautiful signing.
He did hit that big HR off Chapman in the fake 2020 playoffs in San Diego.
Why exactly was it fake? I think it was one of the hardest WS formats we’ve ever had.
It was a great series and all but that entire season, no matter who won, has an insanely large asterisk.
100%. For being one of the hardest WS formats we’ve ever had.
The ’20 chip is my favorite cuz of all the booty hurt fans who try to dismiss it….
Graterol’s celebration after Belli robbed Tatis is the greatest moment in playoff history….
You and no one else. Thank goodness they force fed us a fanless 60-game season when there was nothing else going on in the world so they could save a few bucks and let LA have a BS title with no parade that forced them to spend $1B to finally get a real one.
Love that it hurts yer booty so much even after over 4 years….
Pod management won’t spend any more $. They will compete with Rockies for last place, especially after 2025 when Cease, King, Suarez and Arraez leave. But hey, maybe they will give away more bobbleheads and hold the line on beer prices.
What?! Come back and update your post after you sober up.
Pads re-opened that checkbook!!1!
Preller is on fire today. One minor league signing after another.
I say let the guy cook, he knows what he’s doing! He’s amongst the best at these fringe (and necessary) MiLB depth signings.
It’s December and the faithful are impatient. Happens
The Dodgers, Giants and Diamondbacks arent waiting until the new year. That in itself should be cause for concern.
Those teams all lost key players they’ve had to replace. But historically, AJP often adds pieces after NYD not before.
That strategy worked out well for the Padres last year. I figure he did that based on his talent, and knows what he’s about, this year, too.
Pro baseball is one heck of a $competitive$ sport. I’m not gonna fault the GM because he takes risks and fails occasionally, while keeping the team competitive year after year. I also trust Padre ownership to do what they can financially, to back AJP’s decisions.
The Pads were ahead of the Dodgers and coasting into the World Series last year, when the $multi-million players decided to take a couple of days off. There went the Pads entire 2024 dream. That’s not on Preller.
Bam!!!
Brosseau was a teammate of Sasaki with the Marines even if it was just 46 games.
The Padres should not have signed Xander Bogaerts.
I have spoken.
We all are aware. I’m curious though, how good must Xander have been so far for us to have thought differently? Would a couple top 10 in MVP votes have done it? 125 OPS+? 110?
I’d take 115
@JSC
At least one commenter here isn’t.
140 wRC+ for his first two seasons would have been good, not the 119 and 95 we got.
Just read Alonso has 123 since stert of 2023 season which is well below 140. I’d say he will be getting an AAV at least equal to Bog.
I’d say he earned his money and then some in year 1. Injuries caused him to be under in year 2 but not by a whole lot so, average the 3 and he has been fine.
For the length for he contract, I’d like to see a couple more 4.4 WAR years in 25, 26, and 27 to prep for the end years.
I think he did what he was supposed to do in 24. The problem being that his contract does create some issues now but hey, that was all factored into the plan by PS and it was his team and his money so it was his decision. So that is where we are. If Bog hits 3+ WAR it isn’t so bad (or whatever similar stats in WRC or your preferred stat).
Oh NOW you tell us?!
The only reason that I might agree with you about Bogaerts, was the recurrent wrist injury. The pro baseball market for stars is tough, and AJP took a chance. I didn’t like the signing then, and I don’t much like it now, but Bogaerts wasn’t Preller’s first choice, and the Padres offered their first choice free agents enough cash to land them, but they signed elsewhere. How is any of that Preller’s and the Padres fault. He took the deal that was possible, and (because of Bogaerts injury history and age), it now looks certain that he overpaid.
I admire the Padres for taking the chance they did.
@OldSaltUSN
It is the Padre org’s fault to overpay a player on the wrong side of 30 to the tune of $100 million dollars. The free agents they wanted signing elsewhere does not mandate that mistake.
Solid depth move. He had over .800 OPS at Syracuse last year and can play all over the field.
Lets go goose!
He had my single favorite at bat in Rays history, forever be grateful for that.
Nice pickup!
Big move
Padres making there big move
Boom! Padres answer to big brother Dodgers’ signing of Teo Hernandez!
To all the Padre haters saying they’ve been MIA!
Trenton Brooks isn’t a viable back up, he’s a minor league depth piece at best.
No love for a 29yo Rookie? Lol
For what it’s worth, I hope he SMASHES in ST!
Just found it funny Mark P brought him into the article.
Born in Alpine, of course we’re rootin’ fer’em!
This is the kind of move teams make to round out a Triple-A roster, not to shore up a major league club. For a team that’s supposedly in win-now mode, the Padres’ decision to sign Mike Brosseau feels like a step backward—or, at best, sideways. It’s a waste of a roster spot and a glaring reminder that they’re willing to settle for mediocrity instead of pursuing excellence. If this is the level of ambition heading into 2025, fans should brace for disappointment.
Again, as I mentioned in an earlier post, look at Preller did last year with similar signings. We’ll see how it works out, but I’m pretty sure his contract is way under $1M. Preller didn’t have to trade anyone away, to make this signing, either.
@OldSaltUSN
I get what you’re saying, but relying on bargain-bin signings year after year has hardly been a winning formula for Preller. Sure, these moves are low-cost, but they’re also low-reward. Brosseau is a classic example of settling for ‘just a guy’ rather than addressing the glaring need for quality depth. If Preller’s grand strategy is to stockpile fringe players and hope they overachieve, no wonder the Padres consistently underdeliver. Fans deserve better than a front office content with scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Lol, Preller has something like 18 high caliber shortstops on the team roster. “$Quality depth$” at infield, ain’t a requirement, compared to other holes that need to be filled.
For all those Pads fans complaining about Preller not making any moves….
If the Padres the Tigers meet in the 2025 Fall Classic, the value of swap-meet and flea-market finds will boggle the mind of at least one prominent New Yorker (well, only if he somehow overlooks the Peter Seidler Years).
Sold. 1984 rematch for the World Series in 2025. Pads will sweep the Dodgers behind a huge showing from Manny Machado to win the NL and Gleyber Torres will hit a HR off the Yankees to knock them out in the AL.
I’m aboard, except this time:
* no BBQ’d Detroit cop cars;
* no old pals shot in the head at a Coney Island;
* no grandmothers driving through Mission Valley and Old Town dragging stuffed tigers behind their Chevy Caprices.