Padres make SNEAKY signing… Free Agency Updates
Padres’s made a sneaky good sign and let’s talk about it and the fact that Philip Rivers is back in the NFL. And I I look, we got a lot to talk about on Padres’s Digest, but in general, I’m feeling nostalgic San Diego today watching him on on the screen. The the show that is ever optimistic and nostalgic for the old days of San Diego when we were good at everything, including baseball. And that’s what we’re here to talk about, the Padres’s. If there’s anything on this current signing that you want to talk about or other things you want to talk about, drop a comment. Appreciate hearing from you guys. I appreciate also that you guys are on board with the concept of all this, that we’re just some dudes talking on YouTube and we are not trying to over or underell you on anything. We I enjoy where this discourse has been going this season because while I am optimistic and I am going to talk about the signing of Evan Fitterer or Fritterer, let’s just call him the fritter. Uh because I he’s he’s a background piece for right now. But I think that this is sneaky good and the direction that the Padres’s need to be going. And as always, if you want to join along and and not have to remember when our videos are coming out, hit the subscribe button. It is not that hard for you to cost you anything. It’s not a paid subscription. All right, Padre signing exciting 1.5 million righty as free agent is um is a misleading AF headline given that we are not paying this young man the 1.5 million. The 1.5 million was his signing bonus out of high school and the exciting was from a couple of years ago. So what am I talking about? What am I saying? Why am I excited about this guy? Well, need I remind you this is where the co the Padres’s currently sit in terms of their starting pitching situation. Nick Paveta, Joe Musgrove, I would say are certifiable major league arms that if they have anything close to a a quote unquote decent season for them, cool, chilling, we’re going to be competitive in every one of those games. Past that, the Padres’s I don’t think have anybody slotted into any spot in a way that is like, oh yeah, he’s the three, he’s the four, he’s the five with any sort of certainty. Um, if you want to give it to Randy Vasquez as the three just out of uh, roll the dice Randy, sure, cool, great, whatever. Um, it still leaves us wide open with four and five. And and and even if for those of you that want to make the argument about JP Sears could be the lefty, we need a lefty guy. Lefty, lefty, lefty like the match. Like, none of these guys are good enough. So, what do we got to do? We either got to spin big in the offseason or we got to spin smart and we got to just accumulate arms and that seems to be the step this is a step in that direction. I would I would bore you guys to tears probably listing off the random permutations of names and people being like, “Oh, well, let’s talk about this guy because of three games that he had in DoubleA. Let’s talk about I I what I just want to see is can we get 10 arms a and have some degree of confidence that when one guy is getting figured out or has a little something you a little hitch in his isms and isn’t doing it quite at the major league level that we when we drop him from our five starter back down to El Paso and bring up somebody new that at the very least the bottom’s not going to fall out from our rotation. We need to avoid games where we can um you avoid games where we give up a ton of runs early on and just like we just need to get starters who can feasibly get us into like the fourth inning competitively in games. And I think that if you start to read through the breakdown of this guy, um, okay, like this this E Evan, want to make sure that I I get his name right at least once in this podcast, but we’re just calling him for now, the fritter. Um, to give you kind of the TLDDR historically of who he is, as I call it up here. um coming out of high school, he was a prospect drafted uh decently highly. He was a guy that was tabbed as having a lot of strikes and then ran into this thrown a lot of strikes and then ran into this. The cancellation of the 2020 minor league season due to co9 pandemic followed by an injury in 2021 derailed Fitterer’s development at a time when he was already the number 18 prospect in the Marlins system. And this was a Marlin system at the time that was filled with prospects uh that they had received from Stanton and other pieces that had been traded off. And it’s a deep system. So look, like this guy wasn’t necessarily somebody who I’m going to redefine the game of baseball, but good prospect. More talking about him. he repeats his delivery well and should have no trouble pounding providing strikes and and that’s all like that’s what I’m saying is the sneaky good about all this is that we got a guy who when he was 19 and at a key point in either as a minor leaguer or as a college player key point and would have would have been your development missed a season because of co and then missed the 2021 season because of an injury at his age 20. Um, I think that there’s a chance that this is kind of a diamond D in the rough where it’s just a kid who lost his way who needs to get into a system run by Ruben Neaba and executed well and he’s only 25. So, by the time he’s 26, 27, who’s to say we can’t have found ourselves, you know, a a two or a three guy in the middle of the lineup. for right now just to know that we’re signing a guy who the numbers I think they show. Let’s I’m trying to find I got too many these different graphics loaded up. Um here’s his uh his double A season numbers from last year. Just shy of 100 innings over 33 games, 10 starts. Got a three and a half erra. Struck out 94. only gave up four home runs. He 42 walks is a ratio that is not good. But I’m also not asking this guy to develop overnight into Greg Maddox. I think though that if we’ve got a guy who can give us what’s an what’s an unreason what’s an unreasonable threshold for some of these minor league guys? give us five good starts, three good starts, three decent starts, two two good one good start, four decent starts. I I view if we’re talking to bring this kind of back to the beginning. If we’re talking about our trying to pull up the So, I have it. If we’re talking about our pitching situation, again, anybody, I dare you, make an argument in the comments section for any of these guys other than Paveta and Musgrove as being locked into their position in a way that you can you you at no point can question their their utility for the team. I just don’t think that exists. So I’m looking at, you know, Vasquez, Sears, Hart, Waldron can be a rotation of those guys will bing bong bing bang boom throughout being the the three and four guys. But then the five guys is going to be guys like Evan Fitterer who we’re bringing in now. Names we don’t know, but I want to see more of these assembled in the minors and in the lower part of the major league so that we can have some some good competition. The bullpen is fine. We don’t need to be talking about, oh well, he came in to be the long reliever and then he got a little bit of he got a little bit of major league experience. Let’s toss some guys into the fire here. Let’s figure out what we got. Let’s burn through our minor league system and toss them back. They’re no good and we lose a game here or two, it’s going to happen anyway with a five starter throughout the course of a season. So, I’m okay with that. But, I think that this is one of those guys that if maybe it’s not right now, could be one where in a couple of years we’re like, hey, this guy’s pretty solid. Not too bad. That’s what I’m saying. Sneaky good sign. Let me know what you think about it. And as always, if you want to hit that subscribe button, I ain’t going to hate you for it. Until next time, talk to you guys soon.
On this episode Christian Pedersen talks about the latest Padres free agency signing.
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