The Padres FLEECED the MLB

The Padres FLEECED the MLB

Bad race fans, we got to talk about Craig Stamon. I want my shot at overreacting, underreacting, just in general reacting. Let’s pontificate and uh kind of workshop through this new regime that we have here um on this episode of Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much everybody for tuning in. I’m Christian Patterson. Our other host, Andrew, he also has already done a video on this. So, I’m not breaking news. There’s nothing really um Dave Postfacto update you on Craig Stamon. So, if you are looking for new news, this might not be for you. But we’ve got some reaction to the news from the community, from the players, from AJ Prowler, and just I want to now that I don’t have to do a knee-jerk reaction. This can be a I’ve lived with it for a few days, and let’s really put this all into the, you know, uh, proper perspective and context maybe and a little bit of pontificating and hypotheticating at the end. Um, as we go through all of this, love hearing from you guys. We’ve got a great community of baseball. Um, I I I I I hesitate to say enthusiasts. Some of you seem to hate watch baseball. So, good on you if that’s why you are here. Or if you just hate watching baseball, all in all, let me hear from you. You guys are awesome. And if you want to follow along as well by hitting that subscribe button, I’m never going to say no, but I’m not going to pressure you into doing it. Let’s just let’s just look at it again. This guy right here, he’s the manager now. Um Craig Stamon is a uh former Padre who has had this quick sort of darkhory rise from his last game being in 2022 to now being the manager in 2025 2026 is an awesome turnaround. He is 41, so technically like could still be a player. And part of me wants to laugh and say, haha, like, oh, like he could be Roger Dorne and Craig Stamon comes back for, you know, a game every month or two as a player manager and he activates. Okay, jokes aside, I I think that part of what we were pitching and wanting poo holes and uh I get that you guys were very split on this in the comment section, but I was on the side of I like the younger I like the out of um out of the box sort of something a little different than what we’ve done. and to pick a guy who played with multiple members of the current Padres’s organization for a couple of year like for a sustained pound of time. It’s not like he and Manny over overlapped for one spring training 11 years ago or some sort of like I I don’t have to do the drawn out six degrees of separation on this team. I can say directly that like Craig knows these guys and knew these guys in the capacity of playerto player under some of the previous management that we are sitting here now a couple of years later saying hey look like none of what we’ve done for the last decade has really been the right move so maybe this move can be there are a couple of factors that just even right off the bat I’m real excited about and I feel like as much as maybe his playing career wasn’t Albert Pooh’s, that could maybe help because hear me out. I would love to be the guy who’s going back and saying, “Oh, like I’ve got the tweets from 2019 like Craig Stamon was my boy. I called it I loved.” Like sure I feel like looking back I have maybe like 6535 or 6040 good memories to mediocre/b bad memories of Craig Stamp like for just as many like oh he’s starting game three of the playoffs or he came in and closed it out and was like ah we ran him out there for the fifth time this week. What are we doing? His arm is a noodle. Like give this man a break. He’s giving up home runs back to back to back to back. So, he’s he was he was a great player and I liked him and I this is not to say I was back there bashing him, but like we threw him every dang day. He was very much the like um bring your work pale uh blue collar everyday vibey thing uh of just like um you know he seemed like he he seemed like he was a guy that gets it and he plays the everyday grind and he’s a um he’s he’s somebody who maybe understands the midlevel just what it takes to coalesce a whole group like he’s not a super he was not poo holes for as great as he was maybe was only relatable to some of those guys in the clubhouse because of the expectations that come with $700 million and being the face of a franchise and having the the questions of the media da da da but maybe that doesn’t actually make him as relatable to everybody just because he’s an ex- player but if you’re someone who’s like hey I was a middle reliever who started some games and also just I played in, you know, seven different teams over 15. Like he was he played a ton of baseball in a lot of different roles and capacities from young guy to old guy. And and May Stam really does actually have that um that gen or that vibe or that whatever you want to call it. Uh I this quote from AJ Prowler was in a recent article by um by AJ Cavl and honestly we realized it when he was playing Prowler told MLB.com whatever he was doing whether it was pitching or coaching or managing you want this guy in your organization in a leadership role and the honestly we realized it when he was playing um does make me very optimistic that at the very least we probably won’t get a guy who’s going to make this season about him. This quote also from that article talking about how his first order of business is going to be filling out his coaching staff. Drop a comment if you care enough to for a video on who coaching on who on hitting coach. He has to fill out his coaches with his hitting coach. Do you care enough to make a video on that? I don’t I don’t know if I know enough about knowing enough about baseball to say like, “Oh, X, Y, or Z dude is going to just show him the Fred McGriff video that was on replay in the 90s about his hitting academy or whatever it was.” They’ll send you the VHS tape. Like for all I know, like there is no sensei out there that’s going to fix it. So I don’t really I I’m not going to throw names out there. How about this? My vote is Will Myers. Let’s bring Will Myers in just to complete this like weird recent Padres’s throwback. Um have Meyers, Ruben Naba, and Craig Stamon um leading the Padres’s to back-to-back World Series or something like that. That’s a fun sentence, but seriously. So, uh, but it goes on to talk about how, uh, he has played with multiple of these guys and kind of reaffirms what I’m saying with like he’s got good relationships already in the clubhouse. And this seems like a guy who can get to work pretty quickly on moving forward and moving along and not having to like hey like I got to build this rapport with this guy or I’ve got to like go meet so and so in the middle and get to know like if he can just come in and maybe there’s some shock value at the beginning like whoa like that’s a change but if he can come in and just be like guys look I I know what most of you need. I let’s address it. start g let’s move forward that feels like fantastic um for where the rest of the team is sitting right now because feel like with Raone Lauraniano transactionally coming back and we got a whole video on that the the lineup is more or less set that we still need a first baseman and a DH and some other pieces but we know who our catcher second short third left center and right are so I I think that Stammit is in a situation where sure he’s got to figure out some pitching. That’s not necessarily his job to provide the pitchers. That’s going to be AJ Prowler’s job most I would assume mostly or maybe Groupner or whoever shadow presidents the team but putting that staff together u hiring a hitting coach putting the pitching staff together there there’s a couple of little things to move on and acquire some new pieces but if Stammon doesn’t have to spend a ton of time with that hitting side and he can just get going on the dudes that are here and that he has and the majority of the team locked in and you know most of I think the plot lines this off seasonason are going to be surrounding just can guys get their heads right? Can Xander hit better all season long? Can is you know can Fernando bounce back? What’s going to be Merryill in his third year? Where? Like it it doesn’t seem like we have a ton of plot lines where it’s like oh X Y or Z needs to be uh traded, fixed, replaced, something like that the way that we did last season where it was like who’s going to be our left fieldielder? Who’s going to be our C? Like what are we doing here? Um so yeah, let’s see. Stam it. I I don’t know where to set the bar. uh 80 wins, 87 wins, 93 wins, 110 wins. I I don’t I don’t care. Like, let’s win. Let’s pass the vibe check. Let’s do whatever. I don’t know. Get Give them a year and then let’s assess. But I’m optimistic. Let me know what you think, though. Drop a comment like I said at the beginning if you want to hit the subscribe button. Not going to hate you for it. Talk to you guys soon.

On this episode Christian Pedersen reacts to the Craig Stammen Hiring
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