{"id":652595,"date":"2026-03-30T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:00:19","slug":"major-sale-update-starting-pitcher-nearing-return-early-overreactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652595\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Sale Update, Starting Pitcher Nearing Return, Early Overreactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">The San Diego Padres were off on Sunday for their first of two off days early in the season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">The Padres are 1-2 heading into their second series of the season, as the San Francisco Giants come to Petco Park for three games beginning Monday night. The Giants are 0-3 as they were swept by the New York Yankees in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">In other news, there&#8217;s another update in the upcoming sale of the Padres, as one insider believes the team could sell for $3.5 billion, shattering the previous MLB record.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">\u201cOne [reason], and maybe most of all, there are four groups here \u2014 most of them have California roots in some fashion or another. And you\u2019re not seeing California teams come up for sale, so that\u2019s a rare thing. And obviously California is a desirable place, San Diego is a desirable market with a beautiful ballpark,&#8221; insider Ken Rosenthal said on Foul Territory.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">&#8220;But the Padres, also to their credit, [have put] themselves in this position where they are not really a small market team in terms of at least their attendance revenue anymore. \u2026 By the late Peter Seidler spending all the money that he did and committing to the players that he did, it has transformed the franchise. It has elevated them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Additionally, the Padres will have a decision to make soon as right-handed pitcher Matt Waldron appears to be nearing a return. He looked sharp in his first rehab outing and is eligible to come off the injured list on April 6.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">Waldron is out of options, so the Padres would need to add him to the roster or risk losing him on waivers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">Finally, after three games of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres On SI <\/a>came up with the biggest winners, losers and overreactions from San Diego&#8217;s first series.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">Here\u2019s more information on these stories and all the latest Padres news (click the headline for the full article):<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-could-sell-for-3-5-billion-mlb-insider-explains-why\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres Could Sell for $3.5 Billion; MLB Insider Explains Why<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/biggest-winners-losers-and-overreactions-of-padres-first-series-of-2026-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Winners, Losers and Overreactions of Padres&#8217; First Series of 2026 Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-on-verge-of-getting-major-starting-pitching-help\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres On Verge of Getting Major Starting Pitching Help<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7g\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-made-2-big-decisions-that-cost-them-series-win-vs-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres Made 2 Big Decisions That Cost Them Series Win vs Tigers<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7j\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-pitcher-predicted-to-have-cy-young-caliber-season-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres Pitcher Predicted to Have Cy Young Caliber Season in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7m\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-michael-king-has-3-word-message-for-luis-campusano-i-love-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres&#8217; Michael King Has 3-Word Message for Luis Campusano: &#8216;I Love Him&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/san-diego-padres-news\/padres-top-prospect-has-clear-goal-for-2026-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padres Top Prospect Has Clear Goal for 2026 Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-16\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7s\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/padres\/onsi\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to our free newsletter<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61581307683573\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PadresOnSI\" rel=\"nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a> for the latest news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres were off on Sunday for their first of two off days early in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-652595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116318727687998685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652595","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=652595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}