'That looks like Bogey': Xander all smiles after 1st HR of '25
SAN DIEGO -- Xander Bogaerts couldn’t help but smile as he rounded first base during his home run trot on Tuesday night. “Haven’t had one of those in a while,” Bogaerts would later say. “It was good to feel that.”
Arraez, Heyward return from IL; Gurriel DFA'd
SAN DIEGO -- The Padres have spent so much of the first month of their season placing players on the injured list that Tuesday brought a welcome sight: For the first time all year, they brought a player back from that injured list. Two, in fact. Luis Arraez and Jason
Back for 2025 -- PADRES.TV -- stream games in Padres territory
The countdown to the 2025 season is on, and there's no better place to watch all the action than on PADRES.TV.
NEW! Top 150 Draft Prospects: Major changes, big jumps highlight list
The Washington Nationals are on the clock. OK, not quite yet, but they do have the No. 1 pick in this year’s Draft, and MLB Pipeline has an updated and expanded Draft Top 150, ranking the players all 30 teams are criss-crossing the country to see to line up their
Latest Padres injuries and transactions
This roster moves and injury updates page will be updated throughout the season.
No. 1 prospect De Vries flirts with another cycle at High-A
Youth was served in the Minors on Tuesday, which featured a pair of heavy-hitting outbursts from two teenagers who rank among the best in their respective organizations. But they weren't alone as a number of Top 100 prospects came through with notable performances to kick off another week of Minor
Reasons for concern (and optimism) amid Friars' skid
SAN DIEGO -- For the first time this season, the Padres are scuffling. They've lost three straight series, including their first home series loss of the season -- a sweep at the hands of Tampa Bay that ended with a 4-2 loss on Sunday afternoon. Of course, there are explanations
Put a torque in it: Tatis has special twist to this OF assist
SAN DIEGO -- As Fernando Tatis Jr. makes his early MVP case, he seems to be doing something spectacular on a nightly basis. One night it’s with his bat. The next night it’s with his legs. On Sunday afternoon, it was his cannon of a right arm.
Power Rankings: New No. 1 from NL emerges, but AL upstart making noise
If you’ve watched even a second of a Mets game so far, you know that there aren’t many teams -- or many teams' fans -- having more fun than the Mets right now. (Sunday afternoon’s implosion against the Nationals obviously excepted!) Their spot atop the NL East is their ultimate
What to make of a stacked NL West? The experts break it down
The season is a month old, and the National League West, as expected, is proving to be the most competitive division in baseball. A roundtable of NL West beat reporters gathered to examine where things stand as we inch toward May: Four teams in the NL West are above .500,
Padres show resolve amid rough patch: 'Got to regroup'
SAN DIEGO -- The Padres have fallen into their first rough patch of the season. They’ve lost three straight, four of five and six of eight. It was bound to happen at some point -- and considering the injuries they’re dealing with, it was probably going to happen sooner rather
10 surprises from the 1st month of the 2025 season
Every MLB season is a marathon of ebbs and flows, peaks and valleys. Through it all, players and teams just hope to find some positive consistency. Hot starts, as promising as they seem, often fade after a couple of weeks as the season hits its stride. But when a player
Signed 8 years ago, Tijuana native Ornelas notches first hit at Petco Park
SAN DIEGO -- The moment was better than Tirso Ornelas could’ve envisioned. And he spent a long, long time envisioning it. Even longer than the eight-plus years and 3,200 plate appearances he spent in the Padres’ Minor League system. Ranked as San Diego’s No. 11 prospect by MLB Pipeline, Ornelas
With 'unique schedule' ahead, Padres shuffle pitching staff
SAN DIEGO -- With a spate of upcoming off-days, the Padres reshuffled their pitching staff ahead of their 1-0 loss on Friday night in the series opener against the Rays at Petco Park. Kyle Hart, the team’s No. 5 starter, was optioned to Triple-A El Paso. Ryan Bergert, the organization’s
Tatis is playing like a superstar again. Here's what changed
Fernando Tatis Jr. is looking as good as ever. For the first time since his 42-homer, 25-steal season in 2021, the Padres right fielder is playing like the superstar we saw when he took the Majors by storm in his early 20s. After missing all of 2022 due to an
10 teams whose playoff odds have changed the most
One month can’t decide a season. But it can make you rethink some things. It’s been nearly that long since the 2025 campaign began en masse on March 27, and a lot has changed in that time. Several teams that were expected to be top contenders have scuffled out of
Despite competition, future uncertainty, Padres co-aces share unique bond
This story was excerpted from AJ Cassavell's Padres Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DETROIT -- When Michael King struck out 11 Guardians over five scoreless innings earlier this season, he received a signed picture from one of
Starting Pitcher Power Rankings has a shakeup at the top
It’s been two weeks since our first Starting Pitcher Power Rankings of the regular season, and a lot can change in that time. While the rankings, based on a formula constructed by MLB.com’s data team, consider pitchers’ performance over the past 365 days, more weight is placed on recent performance.
The fastest prospects in the game -- one for each team
When discussing the fastest prospects (and frankly, all players) in baseball, there’s the Rays’ Chandler Simpson and then there’s everyone else. Now in the big leagues, Simpson has led scouts to say that he should get at least a 90 run grade on the 20-to-80 scouting scale. Watching him do
Here's every team's 2025 Draft bonus pool and all pick values
The Nationals own the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 Draft, which comes with a record assigned value. But the Mariners, who jumped from No. 15 to No. 3 in the Draft Lottery, own the largest overall bonus pool. MLB released the slot values and bonus pools to teams
'Keeping the boat afloat': Three takeaways from the Padres' road trip
DETROIT -- The Padres are adamant: No matter who’s injured, no matter who’s on the field, they can win any game, any day.
Pivetta delivers his third scoreless start: 'Got all the weapons'
DETROIT -- At some point in early February, Padres brass scheduled a Zoom call to discuss the possibility of signing Nick Pivetta. It was supposed to last about half an hour. It lasted an hour and a half. They liked what they saw. They wanted in. “We were like, man,
Padres teen phenom De Vries' day: Cycle, 2 HRs, 5 hits, 8 RBIs
The stars, the planets and everything in between aligned perfectly for Leo De Vries on Tuesday night. "El Mutante" did not disappoint. De Vries put together one of the best single-game performances in club history, made all the more impressive considering he's only 18 years old. MLB Pipeline's No. 17