Padres and Phillies Spend Big, Get Hot as 100 Wins Matter Less in MLB
Spending money doesn’t necessarily guarantee success in Major League Baseball, but some big contracts have spun the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies into…
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Cohen’s Mets Spending Spree Unwinds Gradually, Then Suddenly
The second year of Steve Cohen’s New York Mets’ reign didn’t turn out as he hoped it would when he bought the team for $2.4 billion. Despite an MLB-leading $282.7…
Padres Payroll Spins Turnstiles but Can’t Gain Traction Against Dodgers
The San Diego Padres have recently gone to the bank trying to catch up with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a pursuit entering its sixth decade. Yet the gap doesn’t seem like…
Padres’ Soto Trade Extends Free-Spending Quest to Catch Dodgers
For two years, the San Diego Padres have spent big money trying in a thus-far unsuccessful attempt to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. That cash race profoundly accelerated…
MLB Season Opens as A’s, Padres Reveal Game’s Financial Divide
The tale of the 2022 Major League Baseball  season, which belatedly opens Thursday, can largely be told in the fortunes of two California cities. On Sunday, the Oakland…
Giants Surprise Run Heads to San Diego as Bochy Mulls Managing Again
Now the story can be told. Two years ago, just after Bruce Bochy had managed his last game for the San Francisco Giants, Ron Fowler, then running the San Diego Padres…
Padres’ All-Star Tatis Likely to Have Shoulder Surgery in Offseason
Fernando Tatis Jr. will likely need offseason surgery to repair a left shoulder that keeps popping out of the socket, though the San Diego Padres phenom doesn’t want…
Padres Big Bet Fizzles as Stars Align Elsewhere in N.L. West
The San Diego Padres open another head-to-head three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday night at Petco Park. But what was one of the hottest rivalries…
LA Dodgers Bag Max Scherzer, the Big Trade Deadline Prize
Major League Baseball’s annual trade deadline has come and gone, as of 4 p.m. ET Friday. And as teams like the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Los Angeles…
Padres Reignite Dodgers Rivalry With Series Win as Tatis Rebounds
When we last left Fernando Tatis Jr., after the first game of this four game series at Dodger Stadium, the 22-year-old San Diego Padres shortstop was in a horrendous…
Tatis Battling Slump as Padres-Dodgers Rivalry Heats Up
Fernando Tatis Jr. led off for the San Diego Padres for only the third time this season, on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. Once again he struck out, this time against…
Musgrove Breaks Padres Record No-Hitter Drought as Club Rebound Continues
For 41 years, Ted Leitner was an anchor play-by-play man on San Diego Padres radio broadcasts. Through all those seemingly endless seasons, he never was able to call a…
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