There’s more work to do by Tuesday’s trade deadline to fill innings
Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller greets pitcher Jeremiah Estrada before a June 6 game at Petco Park.BALTIMORE — The Padres shook loose the dust two days before the trade deadline. They chased down a late-innings setup arm in the Rays’ Jason Adam, someone to help bridge the gap to closer Robert Suarez.The Padres need a starter or risk re-living 2021, when whispers about Max Scherzer and others led nowhere.
“You want to round your team out,” Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said Sunday in a hallway of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. “We’re still in conversation. We feel like we have internal options that we like. Mazur coming up the other day and battling through, getting us in a position to get a win. Jhony Brito.The Mazur Experiment has been a bust to this point.
Then Vásquez rode the wave of historic Padres pitching on this road trip, jumping in the wipeout Conga line with Dylan Cease, Michael King and Matt Waldron. When Tatis returns, when Musgrove returns, if Darvish returns, patching up the rotation now could pay playoff-level dividends later. Preller is enough of a baseball junkie to understand the precarious pitching ledge his team is walking.The ex-Rays’ reliever fills a hole the Padres have struggled to patch beyond Jeremiah Estrada and, at times, Adrian Morejon. Adam also is not a free agent until 2027.
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