The Padres have re-signed Luis Patiño to a minor league contract, as reflected on the MLB.com transaction log. Mad Friars first reported the agreement last month.
Patiño, 25, underwent Tommy John surgery in April and missed the entire ’24 season. San Diego kept him on the 60-day injured list during the season and opted not to tender him a contract in November. Patiño’s projected $800K arbitration salary was barely above the MLB minimum. San Diego didn’t want to keep him on the 40-man all winter, though, so they sent him to free agency. They succeeded in bringing him back without dedicating a roster spot.
The timing of the surgery means that Patiño is unlikely to be ready for game action until at least the halfway point next season. He’ll be able to build into shape at various minor league levels before presumably heading to Triple-A El Paso. The Colombian-born righty has a 5.12 ERA across 123 Triple-A frames. He has appeared in parts of four MLB seasons between the Padres, Rays and White Sox. Patiño carries a 5.02 ERA over 136 1/3 major league innings. He owns a 20.2% strikeout rate and has issued walks to 11.4% of opponents.
While Patiño has yet to find sustained success at either the major league or Triple-A level, he was once considered one of the sport’s most talented pitching prospects. He was arguably the headliner of the four-player package that San Diego sent to the Rays for Blake Snell. The Friars brought Patiño back via waivers last offseason. He is out of options, so if the Padres call him up once he gets healthy, they’d need to keep him in the majors or expose him to waivers.
Nice…..
It’s a good move but if this is the Pads cieling this year this team is in dire straits.
Giants sign Verlander and the Padres counter with Patino.
Not good.
I’m guessing John Seidler has capped spending by AJP to no more than $1M contacts for next 7 years, or until next owner group is in place.
When did MLB approve him as the Padres control person?
Pads are going to end up keeping the rule 5 pick from the O’s…..
Hopefully they give him a few dollars to use. He absolutely needs another SP (really 2), a part time catcher (really a starting catcher) , and an OF.
That’s really not all the holes they need to plug but it’s going to be real tough without at least that.
Last year at this time the padres had no…
LF, CF, DH, 3 starters, shakey pen.
Rotation was Darvish, Musgrove and King (who was mainly a reliever before).
From this point on the Padres got..
Arraez, Cease, Profar, Scott, Adam, Solano, D Peralta, Perez, W Peralta and Merrill took over center.
Padres have a few holes on the team but they also have some damn good players in the other 3/4th of the team.
Preller hasn’t started cooking yet but he will.
Position players
Arraez
Tatis
Merrill Madness
Machado
Xander
Cronenworth
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Starting pitching
Cease
King
Darvish
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Pen
Suarez
Adam
Estrada
Morejon
Peralta
Matsui
Hoeing
Kolek/jacob/Reynolds and others
Bench
Wade
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8 blank options. Some of which will be filled by players on the 40 man, minor league deals or prospects. The rest via trades and free agency.
Point being there is plenty of time to fill these holes. The padres don’t need stars, they have them. They are in a great spot to wait out free agency. Pick up some quality leftovers to fill out the roster. In the meantime keep adding minor league deals. They add depth and occasionally breakout.
That’s a good thing. All those high priced players that failed before will have to actually earn their money and produce and carry the team.
Or whoever is controlling AJP
Jeez now you’re starting to sound like me Simm, and that sort of scares me. Hopefully the instability in ownership means they won’t trade away those stars.
Very good signing cheap and affordable probably put up similar stats. Learn how budgets work you won’t out yourself as an ignorant mark.
That’s a move
Man doesn’t seem like long ago this dude was an untouchable prospect.
At the age of 25, Patino is still young enough to eventually develop into a MLB caliber pitcher.
I’m really pulling for this kid. He’s still only 25 years old so hopefully the surgery repaired the pain and weakness in his throwing arm and he comes back better than ever. It wouldn’t be the first time a pitcher blossoms on the other side side of 25.
Preller really likes this guy. If he can get healthy he might be ok.
I’m rooting for this guy to get healthy and eventually be successful. Several years ago his stuff was electric.
Estranged from his uncle Rick Patino for some late night Italian restaurant shenanigans
Will say one thing for Padres management…they are certainly good at knowing which of their prospects to give up. Traded out much of their depth for Darvish, Snell, et al, and very few of those players worked out for the other team. Perhaps the Padres prospect pool five years ago was simply overrated to begin with but it sure looks like effective roster management.
Fully concur. Great roster management. If we can get past this Seidler Trustee BS we can see if this guy can potentially live up to his potential. LFGSD!
The Padres have traded prospects/young players that have become productive players, i.e. Trea Turner, Andres Munoz, CJ Abrams, MacKenzie Gore, David Bednar, Hunter Renfroe, Manuel Margot, Ty France, James Wood, etc…
Name another team that has traded this level of talent.
Also still several of them that are top 100 for other teams.
and they’ve recently landed in trades Soto, Tatis Jr., Cease, King, Arraez, Snell, Musgrove, Darvish, Manaea, Cronenworth, Adam, Scott, etc… you get, you give, of course trades are two way deals.
IDK why everyone wants Sheel to be the Owner. Be careful what you wish for. She is a total unknown.
The big mistake that AJP (who I love as a GM and evaluator of talent) was signing Xander Bogaerts, who everyone and their mother knew was overrated & not going to produce.
The thing about big contracts like that is it’s sometimes not the GM that pushes for them. Often it isn’t them at all and they really don’t want to tie up the resources, but rather it is ownership driving the bus. There’s no way of telling without someone spilling the beans if it was Preller or ownership driven.
Yeah you have to remember that year they offered both Trea Turner and judge more money. Xander was the next best bat and they made sure they got him.
Yes, that is part of the reason I think it was ownership driven. That and the fact that they had just missed the World Series and Seidler was potentially ill.
Patino has potential, and it takes time to unlock. Good for San Diego not to give up on that. Still young.