{"id":507953,"date":"2026-01-06T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:41:12","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-padres-expected-to-be-active-in-international-market-bradgley-rodriguez-is-potential-boost-to-bullpen-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507953\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Padres expected to be active in international market; Bradgley Rodriguez is potential boost to bullpen in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/san-diego-padres-news\/52479\/2026-international-prospect-signing-period-opens-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB international amateur prospect signing period;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB international amateur prospect signing period<\/a> opens later this month and Cheri Bell of Gaslamp Ball breaks down what that means for the San Diego Padres. She also includes the known targets for the Padres and what money has already been committed to the amateur class. San Diego has committed a large sum of its international pool money, but has money left to spend should the scouts identify additional players who could fit in the Padres\u2019 system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Padres News:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bradgley Rodriguez introduced himself to the Friar Faithful in the 2025 season and showed flashes of limitless potential. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-staff-editorials\/52469\/bradgley-rodriquez-could-be-next-padres-prospect-to-bullpen-mainstay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:He has the stuff to be a big part of the bullpen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">He has the stuff to be a big part of the bullpen<\/a> in his second season, but he has to demonstrate improved consistency in the spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Matt Waldon and his knuckleball burst onto the MLB scene in 2024 and at points during the season, he was the best starter in the San Diego rotation. However, he struggled to find the same success last season and spent the year in the minors. With an unsettled back end of the rotation, Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/05\/padres-roster-review-matt-waldron-2-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:what Waldron will have to do;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">what Waldron will have to do<\/a> to rejoin the big-league club in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Baseball News:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When the Boston Red Sox traded for Willson Contreras to serve as their first baseman\/designated hitter, it brought up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/assessing-boston-s-options-for-triston-casas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:questions about the future of Tristan Casas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">questions about the future of Tristan Casas<\/a> in Boston. The Red Sox will have several options with Casas, but all of those options depend on him being healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 MLB international amateur prospect signing period opens later this month and Cheri Bell of Gaslamp Ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[47,5,48,43350,51,753,14037,4577,25895,59,4,43,144,40,1448,137,18,4339,4338,57061,70,409],"class_list":["post-507953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego-padres","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cheri-bell","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-jeff-sanders","tag-jhonkensy-noel","tag-jorge-alfaro","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-padres","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillies","tag-randal-grichuk","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-sandiegopadres","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-willson-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115848680915345517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}