Insider Drops MAJOR Padres Update…

Insider Drops MAJOR Padres Update…

Potter fans, let’s talk about losing out on another superstar all-star caliber reliever headed to potentially a division rival. Robert Suarez news swirling around the major league hot stove. Let’s talk about it all in this episode of Padres’s Digest and exactly what this means for the Padres’s bullpen this coming season. What’s going on everybody? Christian Patterson back with another episode of the show that is okay with this one. Hear me out though on it. As always though, I want to hear from you guys. This is uh group therapy cuz if you are a Padres’s fan, you know what this is. This is another off season of talking yourself back into believing that the Friars can do it one way or another. Let’s talk about let’s start with the Robert Suarez headline that just for me is okay. Okay. But at the same time, I’m like, oh, okay. Okay. What I’m saying is when they’re talking about him being predicted to make a bunch of money and go to the San Francisco Giants, uh, yeah, it’s a it’s an allstar reliever that we are losing and that a division rival is gaining. Whether that means we face him six times or 16 times or none at all, I have no I have no prediction on directly what that impact could be between uh the Padres’s and long-term success. I don’t get the sense that the division is really all that up for uh the Giants and us deciding kind of the Dodgers are the team to beat. the Dodgers are going to keep being the team to beat and unless the Dodgers just have one of those like freak down years where everyone’s off or injured or whatever or gets kidnapped because of gambling debts. Uh, sure. But right now, Robert Suarez to the Giants, it sucks to hear, but I’m kind of okay with it. I think it’s number one thing is it’s it’s a sign that his money is going to be is he going to get his back. This one also happening because other headlines starting to line up with other closers on the market getting signed and going off the market. Suarez has a pretty good value has a pretty good idea of what his market value is. I would argue that market value can be different than actual proative value to the team. And that’s where I’m getting at is that like I said on the Giant side, I don’t think that he’s the deciding factor between us and them and either of us winning the NL West, but I also think that it’s him being on the Padres’s a I don’t think is necessarily the best thing for everybody in so much as who the Padres’s have lined up in other closing options or other bullpin formatting options. And let’s talk about that in a second. But also in the if we’re really talking about where are we going to spend money, I don’t see how you could make anything beyond the argument of all pitching is good pitching. Give me arms as to why you would spend on a closer as opposed to a a bat of any kind, let alone a $60 million bat, a $12 million. What is the dime spent in that bullpen worth it right now? argument or or option of this or idea or topic of this number one being the like I said the the who’s coming next and I apologize as always to everybody that watches this on a phone if these texts get too small but logistically we have and I I don’t know I’m doing the big hands illustrationy point thing but that imagine me doing that behind this full screen graphic like we have a lot of people there our arms. So, I don’t think it it’s the way that like with starting pitching right now, the Padres’s are so short-handed that I would say if we were to lose one more, if like if a Musgrove or PT or if anybody else goes out, there isn’t really a per like there we do have physically the bodies, but like we don’t have like a gang of dudes who can all potentially fill in the voids. for the bullpen. We do we have a lot of really good arms. That whole list top to bottom it like you guys can nitpick at some of the people here and there where you’re like situationally I don’t like Yui or I don’t like Wii or whatever. That’s good deep bullpen farm system. Want to specifically focus though on this group right here and get your guys’ opinion now that it’s less of a hypothetical and more of an actual conversation about Robert Suarez being gone. And if you please if anybody out there thinks that Robert Suarez is still coming back as Padre some sort of discounted deal make the make that argument in the comment section would love to meet you. But assuming that he’s gone, this is what I will call like the back half of the bullpen this year in terms of guys that the more the more reliable more for to me more apt to go to them in in any bigger, you know, more necessary situation. Who do you like as the closer? I haven’t really heard the narrative too much about Mason Miller converting over to being a starter alla Michael King the way that I thought there would be some strain of that being argued in the offseason. So assuming that Mason Miller is going to remain a bullpen arm, do you just by default go to him? Is there a case to be made for Adrien He is a Padres’s product. He is a lefty. So he’s a little something different. He has, I think, proven himself both in the big innings these last two seasons now being an all-star, but also he’s proven himself in terms of like when he came up he was one thing and then he needed to go back to the minors and tweak it. And he showed that he can develop and learn into roles and situations. So, I think he’s a guy that to me has earned the trust that if we had not made the Mason Miller trade, I would still be saying we’ve got a closer, but I’m curious the one two right there. Who do you guys identify with as closer? But also to me, baseball analytics are pushing this in a direction of where I don’t really know if like a closer is the right move anymore. The ninth inning, historically speaking, has been what’s viewed as like these are the biggest three most important outs in all of baseball. We’ve got to get these last three with our best guy. made this argument a couple of times over the course of the last season plus and you guys had varying degrees of opinions on it, but to me like if you’re facing the three, four, five guys in the eighth inning and then the seven eight n or something like that in the in the ninth inning. Is the ninth inning really the biggest three outs or was getting those three outs in the eighth to prevent that team from being able to use the best part of their lineup actually uh the biggest inning? Makes me kind of think that, you know, maybe there’s a little bit of we got enough dudes anyway on this list that we can always have those call them high leverage innings quote unquote. have them ready to have we can have a guy for every situation. If it’s a seventh inning where we need someone to come in and get some strikeouts with the bases loaded, Mason Miller. If it’s an eighth, ninth inning, two inning save thing, give it to Moro. If it’s two guys need a night off, give it to give it to Jason Adam. Give Jeremiah Estrada the eighth and there’s a couple different permutations where I’m like, “Okay, cool. I actually don’t mind closer by committee, if you will, to be uh newagy in.” So kind of it that’s why I I leave initially it’s like h okay that sucks we’re losing somebody to the Giants but then I’m like okay like cool I actually this is seems like a cool setup for what we’ve got instead of being anchored to being like Suarez has been the guy for a couple years we got we always got to use him last. So I don’t know let me think let me know what you think though. Drop a comment and like I said if you want to hit the subscribe button I ain’t going to say no. Talk to you guys next time.

On this episode Christian Pedersen talks about the latest Robert Suarez free agency news.

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