The Padres have formally announced their Wild Card Series roster, and neither Mike Clevinger nor Dinelson Lamet is included. Both right-handers recently incurred arm injuries, with Clevinger suffering an elbow strain and Lamet experiencing biceps discomfort. There’s still no formal update on their status, but neither has been ruled out from future rounds. For this round at least, here’s how the roster breaks down:
Right-Handed Pitchers
- Austin Adams
- Dan Altavilla
- Zach Davies
- Pierce Johnson
- Chris Paddack (Game 1 starter)
- Emilio Pagan
- Luis Patino
- Garrett Richards
- Trevor Rosenthal
- Craig Stammen
Left-Handed Pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
- Jake Cronenworth
- Greg Garcia
- Eric Hosmer
- Manny Machado
- Jorge Mateo
- Mitch Moreland
- Fernando Tatis Jr.
Outfielders
Both Clevinger and Lamet are among the other 12 players in the Padres’ 40-man postseason player pool, the team announced, so they could still be added in future rounds, should the team advance. Beyond Clevinger and Lamet, the other 10 players in San Diego’s pool are as follows: Michel Baez, Luis Perdomo, Taylor Williams, Jose Castillo, MacKenzie Gore, Ryan Weathers, Francisco Mejia, Webster Rivas, Greg Allen and Jorge Ona.
Very big break for the Cards, their offense needs all of the help it can get. If they can score at least 4 in all three games, they’ve got a great shot at moving on with how their pitching has performed
I am willing to bet that Gore ends up on the actual roster for this series. Notice 3 catchers, one currently battling a jaw injury. A player can be replaced due to injury at any time.
Is there only 27 players on the roster?
Augh, no. I skipped over Luis Patino. My mistake. Thanks for that. He’s on there now.
Patino? Guerra? A pitcher seems to be missing.
Tough break for the Padres not having their #1 and #2 starters, but I think they can still win without them… just will be more difficult and the offense and pen will need to step it up.
Yup
A smart thing the padres could do and what I hope they do is play the guys not named Paddack or Davies with starting experience (Strahm, Morejon, Patiño, Richards) as 2-4 inning performers for the next few weeks. They’re all much stronger pitchers statistically pitching shorter games and we’ve gotta face the Dodgers likely without Lamet and Clevinger.. It’s time to wear down all our resources, because it’s not really about a World Series this year for the Pads, it’s about getting as far as you can and especially beating the dodgers next round.
Yes it’s about a World Series this year. Otherwise they wouldn’t have gone out and made all those trades, some of them for rentals.
Uh no it’s about making it past the first round if you’re finally in the playoffs after 14 years. Great on them for making moves but they played mostly bad teams from the NL West and AL west because of the virus.. we’re talking exactly 75% of their games were against the following: Angels, Rangers, Mariners, Rockies, Giants, Dbacks. I’m rooting for my team to beat the dodgers next round who they haven’t won a series against in the last 2-3 years that I can remember..
Clevinger’s probably not a rental if they make a playoff run with him next year btw. Preller’s a smart dude he knows there’s no pressure to trade a guy who’s value after next season is extension, deadline trade for prospects, or a big compensation draft pick.
Clevinger is under team control for the next two seasons, so he is nowhere near a rental.
Everyone played bad teams.
Central- Tigers Royals (equivalent to Angels and Mariners, Rockies and Dbacks)..and Pirates (equivalent to rangers). Brewers (Giants equivalent in central).
East- Orioles, Red Sox, Phillies, Mets, and Nationals..
No, everyone played teams with bad records, but that doesn’t make them equally bad teams. If the divisions were laid out differently going by the 60 game season with the 10 best teams in the East, the 10 middle teams in the Central and the 10 worst teams in the West and then played 60 additional games starting from scratch on their record each of those divisions would have teams with great records and poor records. That wouldn’t make the worst team among the 10 best teams equivalent to the worst team among the 10 worst records. You cannot truly define who is better among the “bad” teams in each region because they had no chance to play each other and had no common opponents.
No, you don’t make those trades if you didn’t intend to go all the way. What would be the point?
I never called Clevinger a rental. Profar, Rosenthal and Castro are rentals. And trading for a guy just so you can try to extend him is not good form (see Phillies and JT Realmuto). And with Clev’s injury history I’m not sure why they would want to extend him anyway.
Hiflew you lost me a little but I get the gist.. I’m just saying as a padres fan they’re not guaranteed by any means to go all the way. The people they’ve picked up are to help them go as far as they can, whereas someone argued they’re trying to win a World Series right now.
I think this year just so happens to be a year where most divisions are fairly divided with a good team or two that could make playoffs in the pre-virus playoff format. If we looked at in that format, the padres would’ve barely made it and by consequence as a wild card team we would say “Ah well they did what they could to get into the playoff race” not watch them make a lot of trades and say “oh they’re definitely trying to win a World Series this year; win or bust.”
This teams built to try and be a dynasty not a one year wonder.
@thecoronavirus…
“I think this year just so happens to be a year where most divisions are fairly divided with a good team or two that could make playoffs in the pre-virus playoff format. If we looked at in that format, the padres would’ve barely made it…”
The Padres literally had the second best record in the NL this year. They just had the misfortune of playing in the same division as the Dodgers.
“This teams built to try and be a dynasty not a one year wonder.”
Bull. Teams that are trying to “be a dynasty” don’t trade for rentals. The memory of Trevor Rosenthal closing games down the stretch in 2020 is not going to magically rally the team to play better even after he is gone.
I am a Padres fan and I thought, “There is no way SD hasn’t won a series against LAD in 2 years.” I checked it out. Padres took 3 out of 4 at Dodger Stadium July 4-7, 2019.
Your point still stands though, the Dodgers own SD. But who do they not own?
I’m with you bud. I sort of lost myself when typing that. My main point was since there was no inter-mingling, you really can’t tell who is better than the rest of the league., especially with teams that missed the playoffs. My head hurts now, I’m going to bed. hehe
Rosenthal and Castro are the rentals, right? Preller didn’t give up anything we’ll miss for them.
Campusano over another arm, when we might be bullpenning the whole series, is a little surprising. Maybe they saw enough to feel that he’s ready to contribute off the bench after not seeing game action in 4 weeks.
@Billy Baroo you don’t give up anything at all for rentals unless you are making a push for the championship right now. Regardless of how much you think Potts, Rosario and whoever else we traded away suck.
It’s just plain dumb to say “don’t give up anything for rentals unless you’re pushing for a championship.” It’s like saying “Don’t spend pocket change on a bottle of water unless you’re dying of thirst.” The Padres gave up prospect pocket change for Castro and Rosenthal. It would be stupid NOT to trade for a rental if the price is right and the team need is sufficient, like it was with Rosenthal and Castro.
There’s an ocean of difference between “we won’t miss them” and “they suck.”
Potts was not traded for a rental. He was traded for Moreland, on whom the team holds a dirt-cheap option.
For Castro we gave up Gerardo Reyes, a 27 year old reliever. Wish Reyes all the luck in the world, but RH relief pitchers with mid-90 fastballs are a dime a dozen.
For Rosenthal it was Oliveras and a PTBNL. The latter is unlikely to be anything interesting. Olveras is far more likely to be a 4th / 5th outfielder than a productive starter.
I didn’t like the Profar trade because Oakland was probably going to designate him, and then you get him on a minor league deal without giving up anything. It makes no sense to lump him in with the deadline acquisitions, because he was picked up before spring training.
Naylor really sucked. France hit .300 he sucks. Quantrill sucks. All 3 and others will burn the fraud that’s AJ Preller. Everyone drinks cool aid he hands out.
Next few weeks? You sound like the Padres are guaranteed to keep advancing.
I mean beat the cardinals and you play the dodgers next week. That’s a few weeks by my understanding of the word few
Exactly, best the Cardinals. Have to do that first.
Yes it is about winning a World Series…. for every team. It’s about a World Series for the Pirates and Tigers too. Not this year obviously, but that’s the goal. That’s what fans expect from their teams.
I wouldn’t want a player on my postseason roster who says “well, shoot. I’m happy just to be here.”
And it’s about winning one this year for the Padres. Otherwise trading for Profar, Rosenthal and Castro would have been a non-starter
It’s fixed
Patino was missing but the taxi squad (40) has gore and weathers to include Castillo lamet and clev
Cards in two…LOL
In the last series with the Giants, the depth of the Padres was the deciding factor. It should carry them through against the Cards. Cardinals pitching is questionable.
If I’m not mistaken the cards and padres were very close in pitchers fip and other similar stats. Not sure how their pitching is questionable, it’s their hitting that is questionable
Yikes that rotation looks almost as bad as cardinals. Extremely lucky they didn’t draw reds in first round.
How is the cards rotation bad? Cards were top ten in pitchers fip lol. And how about those reds, left 7 runners on third with less than 2 outs, they are very scary lol
Rotation wins rings reds are > than cards. Also cards lineup weak, stacking runs on paddack means little.
Cards 6-4 against reds this year so….,
I said it last week: after the Padres locked up the #4 seed, they needed to sit their starting pitchers for their last series after Clevinger had gone down. They had enough depth to deal with one starter being lost but not two. There was no reason to have Lamet out there last week. Perfect opportunity to give the kids some more innings or a bubble playoff pitcher. Sure, pitchers need to stay in a groove but Lamet could have got his work done on the side and not in a grudge match vs. the Giants, especially when the Giants were fighting for their playoff lives. Really dumb decision and it may end up costing the Padres yet again in Round 1 of the playoffs…ugh!
Padre fans can soon rejoice reading DL takes on draft and prospects they get all dreamy about those prospects. “Paddack incredible”