This is HUGE for the Padres …

This is HUGE for the Padres …

The Padres’s have an absolute make orb breakak stretch coming up in the season and I want to talk about it. Let’s take a break from talking trades and focus on the future for the San Diego Padres’s. What’s going on everybody? Christian Patterson back with another episode of Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much for tuning in as we go through all this. Always want to hear from you. Drop a comment. Let’s get it talking about what’s going on. I’m going to do this video kind of putting the blinders on, saying that we’re not going to get a trade done. And I just want to talk about the hypothetical team we have and or if we do trade, it’s only going to improve the team we have. So, I think it just makes any of my analysis in this video plus a trade, you know, better opportunities. I don’t think it’s going to negatively impact anything we do. That being said, let’s take stock of where we are at. Apologies for going back to the video. Need to go to this. Trying to avoid going to this, but need to go to this. We’ll talk about it. Six back as of us recording this. We got within three, three and a half. Dodgers kind of collapsed for a little bit. Padres’s though in response said, “Anything you can do, we can do better apparently and the offense has really dialed down right now.” That being said, six back is bad, but you say to yourself, “Oh, we still got a couple of months. I know August is here, but we’re kind of in the dog days before it gets really nittyritty. You can even throw at me that the Padres’s are um still in the wild card right now and and controlling that last spot. I think it’s interesting to see the Diamondbacks and Giants both in there. Just a great year, competitive year for the NL West. fantastic year of competition. But Padres’s are like in it right now. But I think we can all we can all agree as Padres’s fans without it me being a nihilistic pessimistic jerk. They’re not doing great right now. This team currently as is. Not saying as is built-wise, just that as it’s playing is not a championship team. Six back in the wild card. All right. We, you know, we say the season ends today. We make the playoffs. I go, “Okay, cool.” Like, it was a down year for everybody, but we made the playoffs. Maybe we win that wildcard game. Maybe we have a memorable moment. Something that’s like, uh, okay, I can be I can be talked into making the wild card with this squad the way it was built. And, you know, winning a playoff game is like, okay, I’m not going to hate that season. Not the perfect year, but we made it. We survived it. Let’s go into the offseason and let’s retool. But also at the same time trying to be more of an optimist. I’m looking at the next month going, how do we get optimistic about this? How do we turn where we’re at into a better situation? And there is no better way for the San Diego Padres’s to do that than to have games against the teams that they need to have games against, including the Giants, Diamondbacks, and Dodgers. Let’s talk about the month of August. And I’m not going to do game previews because like I already acknowledged there is the potential of trades and so I don’t I’m not going to do that. But I’m also not going to do game previews because it it gets boring and I want to talk more big picture existentially about what the month of August is going to hold for the San Diego Padres’s and really figuring out may I maybe too grandiose to say the whole blueprint, but I think also like you can argue major parts of the blueprint will be discussed and revealed in this month. We’re going to finish off uh the m the we’re going to start off the month of August with another round against the Cardinals. Okay. Woof. Not going well for us the first time through. That’s already hard. But then Diamondbacks, yes, they are behind us. They should be a team that statistically speaking, the Padres’s would be favored to beat, but that is a team that you saw on the wild card and they are in the hunt. So, it’s a clutchish game that the Padres’s need to be able to step up and win. Next stretch. They got little trip uh to or hosting the um hosting the Red Sox. Apologies. Then it’s San Francisco. Red Sox are a a good team and a good litmus test as is, but then San Francisco is where you get serious about it because assuming that we keep pace kind of to where we’re at right now. San Francisco, I’ll remind you, nipping at the heels of that NL West or of that wild card spot out of the NL West. Assume they are within a game, give or take, of the Giants, I would say that that is a series that is a mustwin for a team that considers itself a championship contender, a playoff contender. And another opportunity for the Padres’s to really like cement themselves in that wildcard race. It gets better though because from San Francisco we then go play the Dodgers and then we play San Francisco again and then I will rapidly go into showing you how the month ends with wait for it d more Dodgers and then the Mariners and and we get out of the stretch but the the hurricane is here where the San Diego Padres’s in the month of August, we’ll have a pair of series against the uh the Giants and the Dodgers and one series against the Diamondbacks. The rest of the season. After that, they will have some um some more um a or some cross league play with the AL. They go into a couple of Rockies games, a couple more Diamondbacks games. We don’t see the Diamond or we don’t see the Dodgers and Giants again. Yes, I acknowledge that at the end of the month of August, the season is still going. And if the Padres’s are still six back or whatever because they just literally split the month 500 uh and there’s still one game in the wild card that like you can argue that the month of September they’ll take care of it. They’ll fix it. They’ll they’ll start playing their best. You just need to play your best ball at the end of the season. Okay, great. Fine. Whatever. But I kind of we should win series like this if we are a serious contender. Teams should look at stretches that go, you know, best team in your conference or in your league and the team that you claim is your rival followed by the squad that has your former manager and is spending big and trying to get after it a little bit. And then to go and have again the team that is your big rock. That should be a stretch that hypothetically a team that is built full of true like superstar killers should be hungry for and should be able to win two out of three. Two out of three. Two out of three. Not going to hold the team to saying, “Oh my gosh, they should be able to sweep through and go from six games back to three games up or something.” I don’t need to be crazy crazy about it, but I kind of think that the Padres’s if they really believe that leaving Arias at the leadoff and then Tatis here and D go down whatever version of permutation lineup, but it seems to be kind of fixed on like they’re spending big on Manny, they’re spending big on Merryill, they’re spending big on Tatis, they’ve got Xander, all those guys locked up like long long term, they’ve got Chronorth locked up medium-term and then need a couple of other fixes Is that team enough to be a long-term competitor? Because in the offseason, you’re gonna have to talk about resigning Arias and some pitchers. And so, do you like what I’m saying is that that offense is pretty locked in. We can probably get we have to talk with Sheets talk about Sheets maybe wanting to explore larger free agency after the year he’s having, but he’s coming back. He’s also a 260 hitter. Like, this is where the offense is right now. Before I get too long- winded on a particular rant of any sort, I’ll just close out with this. The numbers might be small. You can you can look heavily at whichever one you like. To me, batting average, even in the day of advanced metrics, is still kind of just the e easiest, lowest common denominator to just analyze a hitter. You can go all the way over to the right hand side column here and look at war. And either of those will tell you that this team currently doesn’t have like what I would say are like superstars. And it also currently does not have an aggregate of everybody’s hitting 280. There’s just no weaknesses. This team has some really good hitters. This team has some medium hitters. This team has some bad hitters or not productive hitters. Not I I don’t want to necessarily be that guy cuz I did not make it to the major leagues as a hitter. I don’t want to absound with saying I could do that. No, it’s hard. Being a Major League Baseball hitter is very hard. But to bring this all to a close in the month of August, no matter what the team is that we have right now, I think we’re going to find out one way or another whether or not it is truly built to withstand the long haul. And it can very easily to me go one of two ways. the team falls apart and then we say to ourselves, “All right, it is time to just let CE go or we Fian slip there. Um, we can let Arias go. We can maybe resign sheets medium, but we got to find a guy internally and really force the issue on Campy or or Terso or where’s S like we got to talk about a future fix there or the team steps up and rises to the moment.” And yes, again, there is that still month of September into October. like we still got a month of season, but I think if the team can rise to the sentiment, win win win these series, get themselves the the the bone the benefit of getting to within a game of the Dodgers and really being cemented in the wild card, but also get themselves just the swagger, the confidence of being like, we beat the Dodgers, we beat the Giants is where you need the Padres’s to be to me if you’re going to want to be truly like championship contenders. Okay, off the soap box. Apologies for that rant, but like I August is going to be really big and I think if August goes poorly, we switch the whole narrative from oh, like we’re buy Duran and we’re in to we like let’s hit a little let’s stick a little couple pieces of dynamite in here and and blow not the whole thing up, but a little bit of it. Let me know what you think. Like I said at the beginning, if you could hit the subscribe button, it would be much appreciated. If not, no worries. Talk to you guys soon.

On this episode Christian Pedersen takes a break from trade talk to look ahead at the month of August for the Padres. Padres Digest is a YouTube channel dedicated to covering all the latest news, trades, reports, and rumors about the San Diego Padres. We provide in-depth coverage of game highlights, player performances, and analysis of team strategies. Our channel features discussions on key players like Fernando Tatis Jr. Luis Arraez, Manny Machado, and Xander Bogaerts, along with insights from Manager Mike Shildt and General Manager A.J. Preller. Stay connected for exciting updates and engaging content on everything Padres!

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