The Padres have announced a series of roster moves, including IL placements for outfielder Wil Myers and reliever Emilio Pagan. They also optioned David Bednar and Taylor Williams to their alternate site, and added new acquisitions Mike Clevinger, Greg Allen and Dan Altavilla to their 28-man roster.
The Padres didn’t provide a reason for placing Myers on the IL. Regardless, the 22-15 club can only hope he’ll return as quickly as possible. Myers performed poorly for the Padres over the previous three seasons, but he has rebounded this year to become an integral part of the franchise’s resurgence. The 29-year-old has slashed a marvelous .293/.365/.602 with nine home runs and 1.4 fWAR in 137 plate appearances, making him one of the NL’s best players in 2020. Myers has also played almost every one of the Padres’ games in right field. The only other players who have seen action there, Edward Olivares and Josh Naylor, departed during the team’s pre-deadline flurry of trades. The Padres are now left with Allen, Jurickson Profar, Jorge Mateo and Abraham Almonte as the healthy outfield options in their 60-man player pool alongside budding star center fielder Trent Grisham.
Pagan, meanwhile, is dealing with right biceps inflammation. There’s no word on how much time he’ll miss, but the issue continues what has been a rough season for a reliever who was a lights-out option for Rays last season. In his first season with the Padres, who swung a trade for him last winter, Pagan has managed a 5.40 ERA/5.81 FIP with 7.8 K/9 and 5.4 BB/9 in 15 innings. Owing in part to the Pagan acquisition, the team had designs on a dominant bullpen in 2020, but the unit has put up a disappointing 5.01 ERA thus far. The Padres did acquire Altavilla and Trevor Rosenthal before the deadline, though, and they reinstated Drew Pomeranz from the IL shortly before then. The hope is their relief corps will turn things around down the stretch, though they’ll have to do it without Pagan for the time being.
Trade for Taylor Williams then send him down?
Work with balls at the alt site
They got 3-4 dudes that are awful in the pen and two of them they cannot send down
Almost time to DFA someone…?
I kind of get a kick out of looking at the Padres roster right now with 8 INF and 2 OF listed.
I get that they can play Profar, Mateo and maybe even Moreland out there as well, but it’s a weird quirk of their roster construction.
Also nola if needed.
That’s because Preller isn’t very good with roster construction….
The guys great at flipping scrap metal ill give him that
Opting for Altavilla over Taylor Williams is a head scratcher. Williams had one bad outing.
Altavilla out of options.
Gotta hope Myers comes back quick. I’m sure the Padres would like Nola to get on the same page as the pitchers this next month, but they could throw him out in right for a bit while Myers is out.
because naked roster manipulation to flaunt the rules has never burned AJP in the past….
How would sending one of their best hitters to the IL benefit the team? Or one of their better reliever? Haha. I’m not a Preller fan, but even I know this comment was off.
Pham also coming back soon hopefully
End of the month most likely. In time for the playoffs.
If Mejia’s thumb is better I could see him coming up to play OF and be 3rd catcher.
I would say that Myers is a good candidate for comeback player of the year. I had pretty much given up on that guy amounting to much of anything.
Going to be close with Myers and the Colorado reliever.
And if a Preller has any sense whatsoever he’ll trade him in the offseason for whatever he can get. That contract was immovable before this ‘season’, so if some idiot is willing to take it over, snatch their hand off!
Lamet overrated. Dudes been gettin launched the last 3 games and can only make it 5 innings lol
So, you felt the need to come here to the comment section of an article that had nothing to do with your Dodgers and nothing to do with Lamet just to bring up Lamet and tell everyone how bad he is? And you do this because you are NOT felling threatened, right?
We didn’t come to you, you came to us. Didn’t you every learn as a child that the more that a boy insults you and is mean to you, the more that means he likes you? Food for thought.
This thread is about the padres right? Got to watch LAME T tonight and man oh man is this dude overrated by you padres fans dude gonna get launched by dodgers in playoffs this year.
Also Doubt you guys will win with our run differential being nearly double yours. We score a ton and don’t allow many, you can look to our wins against you this year 11-2, 6-0 while belly and muncy are struggling. If you think Trevor Rosenthal is the answer I feel sorry for you. We have 4 closers…..
Buehler is at a 3.60 now.
Padres are outperforming there projections while dodgers have underperformed and still have a 5 game lead lol!!!!!! Wait till the padres turn into who they are just gotta hope it doesn’t happen in the playoffs lololololol
So you come here twice and both times you say the same thing, Lamet is overrated. Fine. Care to expand on that? Tell us why, how he is overrated? What is wrong with him?
Buehler is at 3.60 now after getting worked over earlier. Well, Lamet is at 2.62 now after supposedly getting worked over. So who is pitching better this year? Hint: It’s the guy whose ERA is a full run lower. Oh, and in his only start against the Dodgers this year he had them no-hit for 5 2/3 innings! Yeah, you guys will wreck him.
And liking your own comments? Really? That’s pathetic. I am embarrassed for you.
@javia I had never seen him pitch in game till last night and was not impressed. Been hearing padres homers hype him up and finally got to see a guy with 2 or 3 pitches that he locates okay and struggles to get through the lineup 2/3 times. Outside of a few games earlier on he struggles to get through 5 innings and then relies on padres spotty bullpen. If it weren’t for angels bullpen padres would have lost that game. This won’t be happening in the playoffs against quality opponents.
Dude! Right? Almost like that stretch walker Buehler just went through where his ERA ballooned up to 5.21…. almost just like that…. only not nearly as bad
the Dodgers are going to lose to the Padres in the playoffs
Not a fan of either team but I want to see that just to see how their fans (and front office) react.
@imindless. You’re making yourself look bad because I just went and looked at run differentials and you’re wrong. As of this moment (3 Sept 2020 @8:09 AM West coast) the Dodgers run differential is +94 and a exp.win/loss of 28-10 which is their exact record, so the Dodgers aren’t underperforming. The Padres run diff. is +50 and a exp.win/loss of 23-15 which is exactly THEIR record so they aren’t OVERperforming.
Why you decided you should come here and trash Lamet is difficult to understand. For his 44 IP he had produced some damn good numbers. Every pitcher gets blown up every now and then and his last 3 outings weren’t that bad. He pitched 16 innings and allowed 6 EARNED runs. Also, it hasn’t been his last 3 outings making it only to 5 innings but his last two. The game before those last two he went 6 IP 8k’s and allowed 3 hits 1 run and 1 walk.
Your post is littered with little exaggerations and it makes no sense for you to do that. In diminishing the Padres you dinish the Dodgers as well because it makes it easier to say that the Dodgers aren’t facing serious competition. You could say they had it easy.
I understand you feel competitive toward the Padres with all the hype they are getting but have some intellectual integrity and stop exaggerating to make your points.
When I made post dodgers were at 93 padres were at 44 so they shellacked angels and that changed the numbers a bit. Congrats for you.
Yes buehler has stank but as I stated earlier dodgers slumped and still are out to a 5 win lead in west. This is without muncy/belly hitting and turner shelved. Also not taking in account that cornenworth, Davies, hosmer, Grisham, lamet(minors not that great and last year was decent) having career years in a shortened season leads you to believe this is capable of being replicated over a 5 year period? 90 percent of the roster is playing as well as they can and far outperforming there projections and career history. Manny, Pham and say paddack seem to be underwhelming a bit but this is a nearly perfect example of a team outperforming where they should be.
Again you sight buehler’s numbers again dodgers have slumped in multiple areas and still have a 5 game lead. Lowest bullpen era (dodgers) 2nd most runs scored (dodgers) staff era (dodgers)
Padres have no pen if you think Rosenthal is the savior I’m here to tell you he isn’t.
Finding small victories in facts that at the time of my post I was indeed correct. Last night it was dodgers +93 padres +43
The Padres won 11-4, a difference of 7 runs. The difference in expected wins would be small. The Dodgers also won and added a +1 to run diff which would also have a small effect. So yes, I should have looked at your posts time stamp but the difference is minor. You jumped the gun using differentials as evidence for your statements.
When were the Dodgers in a slump? They have won 4 in a row and are 8 out of there last 10? Every team goes through slumps. Rundiff. averages everything out so using it was hazardous. You think the Padres can’t point to a slumping team at some point in the season or slumping players or players just not performing as expected? Come on.
Also, I didn’t point out Buelhers numbers. I did point out how you were wrong about Lamets numbers though.
Doyer fans starting to feel real threatened with our talent and overall enthusiasm for this team. They are starting to come to the realization that San Diego has a legitimate chance at Winning a World Series Title before they do….and they have been in the hunt for yearssssss. Greatest time ever to be diehard Padres fan from San Diego
As an outsider I’m observing the Padres with a lot of interest. When a team emerges from a rebuild has to be one of the most difficult decisions a GM will make in his entire career. It’s difficult not cheering for them.
The problem is automatically assuming padres are winning a ws when you haven’t made playoffs in 14 years. This is the closest padres have been to make playoffs in a shortened season. I have no problem giving credit where credit is due. Do this for 5 consecutive years then we will take you seriously.