After sitting in the first months of winter due to a property quarrel, the Padres de San Diego use the last days of the offseason to make their own remarkable additions.
Thursday, the Padres announced that they had signed the left -hander Kyle Hart, returning from South Korea after a visit to the KBO League, to a one -year agreement with a club option for the 2026 season. de Hart arrives on the heels of the paadres Reach terms with a free agent colleague Nick Pivetta on a four -year contract worth $ 55 million. (The Pivetta Agreement includes several opt -out opportunities that could change its final form.) Add the other recent maneuvers of the Padres – signing the free agent Elias Díaz and the external championships Jason Heyward and Connor Joe – and The executive AJ Preller managed to successfully shoot on a fifth of his list in about a month.
What is left on the list of preller’s tasks? Let us turn to a practical subposition format for the answer.
1. Cait, the king now exchanges unlikely?
It is natural to look at the Pivetta and Hart signatures and to wonder if the paadres intend to exchange a starter in place. Dylan stops and Michael King are planned for the free agency this winter to come (although King recently signed a agreement that includes a mutual option for next season), which makes their names appear on the rumor mill. By moving one or the other, the paadres would release immediate funds while recovering a return that could help now and later.
However, it does not seem that the paadres had an immediate follow -up movement here.
Dennis Lin of athletics reported Thursday, that the structure behind the Pivetta agreement (he will earn a salary of $ 1 million this season with a signing bonus of $ 3 million), could actually increase The chances that ceases remain with the padres at least at the start of the season.
The Padres, who will lead their business in 2025 without the injured Starter Joe Musgrove, could align a constant rotation, King, Pivetta, Hart and Yu Darvish. The natural course of the season would then dictate if San Diego moves or king before their appointment with a free agency.
2. And Suarez?
Cease and the king seem to stay in San Diego, but the same is perhaps not true for Robert Suarez closer. Athletics notes that an agreement involving Suarez “remains at least a decent possibility”.
Suarez, 33, was fresh out of a stars season which saw him display an MPM of 2.77 (149 ERA +) and a ratio of 3.69 withdrawals / walking on 65 sleeves. He owed $ 10 million this season to come, with an opportunity for withdrawal to follow. The displacement of Suarez would relieve part of the financial stress that the paadres are underwater without necessarily having the same cascade effect as the control or the king would do it.
If the paadres treat Suarez, they would probably have places in Jason Adam or Jeremiah Estrada.
3. How is their pay situation?
With Pivetta and Hart trailer, the Padres now have a planned opening mass of $ 207 million, According to the Fangraphs. Although it puts them well under the first line of luxury taxation, it is always a significant increase compared to the $ 169 million they would have finished last season.
It is therefore not surprising that the paadres were interested in negotiating various veterans throughout the offseason. This group will stop and from the king to the inner field player Luis Aráez (himself a free agent comes the offseason) and beyond.
PRELLER is not unrelated to conclude agreements at times when other managers general dare – he exchanged to stop on March 13 and Aráez on May 4 – suggesting that he will continue to work with telephones with eyes On the improvement of the list and the finance of his team and financial situation.
