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Padres signed Peyton Pallette

Padres released Julian Merryweather

30. Wilifri De La Cruz , SS, 18, 6’2”/170, DSL De La Cruz has a mature frame and smooth swing from both sides of the plate. Having long legs, De La Cruz has a strong upper half but still has room to add weight and power to his profile. The swings are relatively similar from both sides of the plate, ...

And so it begins ... Luke Voit has re-signed with the Rakuten Eagles of Japan for 2026. Voit, the 2020 MLB home run leader while with the Yankees, spent 2024 and the beginning of 2025 in Mexico before heading to Japan in June and hitting .300/.384/.498 with 13 homers in 67 games for Rakuten. That’s...

5. Nestor German , RHP, 24, 6’3”/225, AAA While the results were not great early on, German really picked it up and was strong throughout the 2025 season. Beginning the year in High-A, German worked his way up to Triple-A by season’s end and tossed a combined 123.2 innings across all levels. His 3.9...

A rib injury caused Jeremy Peña to miss all of July, and his season ended a week early due to an oblique issue. Still, Peña was able to put up a career-best season, having a 5.7 fWAR, which was nearly double his previous career-best mark. Across 543 plate appearances, Peña hit 17 home runs and stole...

29. Will Johnston , LHP, 24, 6’3”/225, AAA Johnston seems to fit the bill of a sleeper in this organization. A 2023 13th-round pick out of Texas A&M, Johnston did not get the love that most SEC arms do. Pitching most of the season in Double-A, Johnston posted a 3.62 ERA there with a 33 percent s...

Tigers Troy Melton has changed his approach in the postseason. He went 3 IP, 2 H, BB, 6 K yesterday after opening Game 1 and posting 4 IP, H, ER, BB, 4 K. Against righties in the regular season, he threw 35% slider with 58% four-seam and sinker. In his two appearances against the Mariners this week,...

Cody Ponce 폰세 might be a free agent option after dominating the KBO last year. They also have interest in Cody Ponce, a 31-year-old right-hander and former Pittsburgh Pirates prospect who pitched in Japan for three seasons and then reinvented himself with Hanwha in Korea Baseball Organization this ...

Padres signed Cody 0-Ponce

Padres released Peyton Pallette

Among the dozens of players moved at this year’s trade deadline, 27 of them were big-league hitters. Most of them were smaller names, meant to be complementary pieces for teams looking to make a playoff push or find contributors who could help further down the line. They were moved at slightly diffe...

Will Watson , RHP, Mets Normalized Stuff+: 115* Mets pitching development has been on fire of late, as New York seems to be churning out quality arms at a rate not seen since the organization’s World Series heyday ten years ago. Looking beyond their most recent crop of current major leaguers in Nol...

The Padres signed Dominican shortstop Victor Acosta and Venezuelan outfielder Samuel Zavala as the headliners of their 2021 international signing class. Both have since been traded to bolster San Diego’s big league roster. The Padres also signed Dominican righthander Miguel Mendez in 2021. Now, the ...

Third baseman Kyle Karros , impressive in his first big league camp, hit two home runs—the second a walk-off—on Opening Day for Double-A Hartford. He continued that trajectory and made his major league debut on Aug. 8 with the Rockies. Karros earned MVP honors in the High-A Northwest League last yea...

The team doesn’t want AJ Blubaugh to face a lineup a second time and his injury history make keep him in the bullpen. Blubaugh’s truncated outing aligned with a pregame plan concocted by Espada and pitching coach Josh Miller. Team officials are still wary of Blubaugh’s ability to navigate a lineup m...

Dominic Keegan , C, Tampa Bay Rays (Triple-A Durham): 2-5, 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI. Injuries early and an extended slump during August have put a damper on Keegan’s 2025 stat line but he’s trending up through the last few weeks of the season. The bat looks to have returned to the form that made him our 5t...

Regardless of how the White Sox fare during the last two weeks of the season, Colson Montgomery is certainly the biggest story of the team’s season. He is just a few months removed from being unable to produce respectable results in AAA, only to work on his swing and then provide an immediate impact...

Mariners trade Hayden 23-Alvarez, Mariners Draft Pick 5 to Padres for Padres Draft Pick 4 JT improved his IBC Mariners draft position by about a round while doing a little roster cleaning. The IBC Padres slip a round (now have 2 1st, 1 3rd & 2 5th round picks) but get another exciting young OF....

Cody Laweryson was enjoying a pregame workout Thursday before his manager with the Triple-A St. Paul Saints beckoned him to the clubhouse to deliver some life-altering news. The relief pitcher from the small Maine town of Moscow was going to the big leagues, after the Minnesota Twins promoted him f...

Padres released Eduardo 23-Beltre

Padres signed Cody Laweryson

Padres released Jonathan Cannon

Padres signed Wilkelman 0-Gonzalez

Padres released Kameron Misner