It’s Happening Again… Padres NEWS

It’s Happening Again… Padres NEWS

Padres’s fans, we got to talk about another headline coming off of the hot stove. More ace pitchers linked to be potential Padres’s. What’s going on everybody? Christian Person back with another episode of Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much for tuning into the show that uh now realizes that he lost his Padres’s hat. That was going to be the big reveal. It’s proof that I have. Apparently, you guys think that because I don’t wear Padres’s hats during the show, I’m not a Padres’s fan. And yet, here I am kneedeep in an offseason where the Dodgers are signing more players and we’re talking about guys for the KBO. But, okay, let’s get if you want to talk about Padres’s baseball, talk about Padres’s baseball with me. Drop a comment. And as always, if you feel so, uh, inspired to hit the subscribe button. You know, I’d love it from you. Let’s talk about the latest headlines. This one, uh, man, this one got me so excited until I started to read the details and then it just, you know, that sad Trump. But here, let’s go. Let’s let’s dive into it. Let’s dive into it. ESPN insider views KBO pitcher as the perfect quote unquote pi fit for the Padres’s. You saw his face at the beginning. You probably didn’t know who it was. His name’s Cody Pon. PC might also be Pon. I don’t know the entomology of the name. Apologies. If you guys were like big fans of his at Calpaly or something like that or when he was a pirate and know his name. Let let’s let’s let me just get to what Jeff Passen had to say so we can talk about the facts before we get to my editorializing of all of this. Uh passing views Cody as the perfect fit for the Padres’s here. He has spent the past four years in the NPB that is uh um the nippon professional baseball that’s Japan and more recently in the KBO that’s Korea where he has found a ton of success. He’s coming off a season where he took home the Cho Dong Wong Award. This is the award that is bestowed to the best pitcher in the KBO each season. So, in theory, and I know that theory is not always uh in practice, but in theory, this is the right guy. Yes, this is a guy who we’d all be like, whoa. Like, we get a chance at the K KBO’s best pitcher. This guy’s a guarantee. Whoa, that’d be great. passing further in the article expect projected out uh that it could be somewhere in the range of a twoyear 20ish million dollar deal two to three years somewhere around it’s 10 a year and found it this one this one is from what I considered my favorite of the military alternate alternative uniforms which I drop as we’re we got the new uh city connects coming out I would love to hear from you guys did you like what of the camos have you like I think that the uh the navy blue and the green ones. Both very underrated camo hat or camo uniforms from the Padres’s. But okay, on a serious note, we’re talking about the Padres’s could have this great import that they’re perfectly linked to, an affordable but effective guy who’s a diamond in the rough cuz, you know, we got these great international scouts. Sure, I like it. It’s a great narrative. It’s a it’s a it’s an even better narrative allegedly when you look at this is what is currently listed on the website for the Padres’s as their depth chart at starting pitching. That is the end of uh of the straight fact I’m delivering. And I always like to tell you when we go from fact into editorializing. I am now going to rant and and and wander off on my thoughts of this. Look, look at look up and down this list. You recognize all of these names. Yes, you know, and I guess the Darvish at this point should have an IIL and should be taken off of it. So, it’s Paveta, Vasquez, Sears, Waldron, Musgrove. I will point out to you what is not listed on that roster is the gentleman who won that exact same award one year before Cody Pon did. And that is Kyle Hart. Padre’s own Kyle Hart. And notice I say Kyle Hart, I’m not disrespecting him yet to the point of saying Kurt Hart or Kevin H or something like that as you know that I do with the Padres’s that I consider to be superfluous extras and just little gnats buzzing around. So, okay. is one is one winner of that award all winners of that award. No. But if Kyle Hart has shown us anything, it’s that the KBO is not the major leagues. And the best pitcher in the KBO is no guarantee of making the major leagues, let alone making the major leagues and having anywhere translated to the like same level of success. I don’t think anyone expected Kyle Hart to come over here and be like, you know, 14 and six with a 25 RA and have this like elite season, but the dude got absolutely sch slacked, disappeared to the minor leagues, and only came up a sparse handful of times when it was sort of an all hands on deck emergency situation. So in an off season where the Padres’s from all the narratives they have pushed, they seem cashstrapped. Maybe there is some spare change under the couch. Like if maybe uh AJ Prowler is going to take a discount in his new deal and Craig Stamon’s got uh some leftover balance in his crypto account and they can all crew together $10 million that doesn’t impact the budget and then we can get this guy and still also go get other pieces. From reading the headlines from Jeff Pass where it’s saying top KBO pitcher perfect fit for Padres’s that seems exciting. It quickly falls apart to me to be like I don’t think I want another dude making potentially big money while also being a big gamble. And and I would be I like I I this is where I want to hear from you guys. So drop like I want to engage in some back and forth and some dialogue in this because I want to be open to the opportunity of Kyle Hart can still be a successful member of the Padres’s whether that’s a lefty reliever or as a spot starter or something like that or can work his way back up. And after Waldrin and Sears are just getting absolutely shacked for their first couple starts Kyle Hart comes in. But spending a couple of million on a guy from the KBO to come back and reignite his career versus spending that money on hitting again. I’m not doing this this is not me doing the 67 thing. I promise this is me just doing like I’m still weighing the options here. But I I kind of lean towards I I I I like I don’t want to give out any big contracts anymore to international um projects if their guys even like the Munak Morakami the third baseman who we’ve done some videos on is now having some like oh he’s this big slugger but he struggles with all pitches over 93 miles So, I’m not specifically even saying guys who are Americans that had to go bounce around in in the KBO or the Nippon League, but I’m just saying like right now Padres’s have catcher, second, short, third, the entirety of the outfield locked in for a couple of years. Guess Lauriano’s only in one and left, but I will I will I will quit being a Padres’s hand if we let him go. That man is going to have his number retired as a Padre. Um that like that is pretty locked in. Potters have a lot of holes in in this rotation. But the thing I keep coming back to is does one spin fix this? Does putting vintage Justin Verlander or Whitey Ford or Randy Johnson or or like does any one like you pick pick one pitcher out of out of his out of history. put Don Larson, David Wells, anybody like Roy How any Does one pitcher fix this rotation? I don’t think so. And I’m not saying let’s put a pitching machine out there and just let him freaking get meaty fast balls down the middle all day, but like I’m not trying to lock up any more money on projects when we could also just pay league minimum to our own internal projects. Let’s just bring up a bunch of dudes from AAA and like I I would rather have to I would rather experiment with three dudes from AAA than one perfect fit from the KBO who might have a bounce back. I don’t know. Let me know what you think. Obviously, this is all the hypothetical uh plain fantasy GM that we get to do in the offseason, but of all the moves that are labeled as perfect fit clickbait, this one really like fizzled and just got me thinking, “Oh, let’s not talk ourselves into some of these. Let like let’s not If it’s Schwarber, sure, let’s have the hypotheticals that he’s going to come here and hit 60. But let’s not Okay, I’m done. I’m ranting. End of into facts. End of rants. End of video. Thank you very much for tuning in again. If you want to hit the subscribe button, we got a ton of stuff coming out for you all summer long or I guess all winter long. I guess I flipped the when the brakes are. You know what I’m talking about. Talk to you guys next time.

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