Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. underwent a second procedure on the fractured left wrist which required surgery back in March, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. There was no setback in Tatis’ recovery from the first surgery, per the report. However, given that Tatis is also on the mend from September shoulder surgery, Padres medical staff and multiple specialists agreed that the second procedure, performed last week, could provide greater long-term stability. Padres president of baseball ops A.J. Preller tells Acee that the recovery timetable of this new surgery aligns with that of September’s shoulder operation. Tatis is expected to be ready for Spring Training.
Of course, Tatis won’t be a part of the Padres’ Opening Day roster, regardless. His nightmarish 2022 year has included not only three surgeries to address two injuries but also an 80-game PED suspension, which was handed down on Aug. 12. He cited a ringworm medication which, unbeknownst to him contained a banned substance, as the reason for his positive test and did not appeal the punishment.
The exact amount of time Tatis will miss early next season is dependent on the Padres’ performance over the next few weeks, as postseason games count toward the suspension. He was suspended for the final 48 games of the Padres’ regular season and was unpaid during that time.
Tatis, 23, originally injured his wrist during an offseason motorcycle accident that the team didn’t learn of until the lockout lifted. (Teams were barred from communicating with their players in any form during the 99-day lockout.) The shoulder issue, meanwhile, dates back to a pair of subluxations suffered during an otherwise stellar 2021 season — the first on a swing early in the season and second while sliding into second base in July. Despite the pair of shoulder injuries, Tatis not only avoided surgery but recorded a .282/.364/.611 batting line with 42 home runs and 25 steals in 130 games (546 plate appearances).
There are still 12 years remaining on the 14-year, $340MM contract extension Tatis signed following his second season in the Majors. He’ll be paid $7MM in 2023 (minus the prorated portion of that salary for any days still remaining on his suspension). He’s then owed salaries of $11MM in 2024, $20MM in 2025-26, $25MM in 2027-28 and $36MM annually from 2029-36. His contract affords him full no-trade protection through 2028 and limited no-trade protection (to 13 teams of his choosing) thereafter. If not traded in 2029-30, he’d gain 10-and-5 rights heading into the 2031 season and then once again be able to veto any trade.
“Ringworm.”
Wouldn’t it be something if the Padres win the world series and Tatis doesn’t get a ring because of his “treatment” choice for his RINGworm?
This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about. But does any one know for sure that if they did indeed win the World Series, that his suspension would dictate that he’s not allowed to get a ring? I sure would hope so. But either way, even if he was given a ring, he’d know that he didn’t really deserve it since he didn’t do anything to help his team win in the post season. And it would be hilarious if they won it all this year and never win again in the rest of his career. And I actually was a huge fan of his during his first couple seasons until he put this big red flag on the legitimacy of his talent.
Nico, we are like minded amigo! Ditto to all that!
Kinda like Juwuan Howard being on the Miami Heat. He played like 30 secs and still got a ring. I’m pretty sure that same year LeBron’s father Greg Oden got a ring for being on the team too. He did nothing to help them win.
All the Cheatro Banditros got rings so sure, Tatis deserves one
Of Shady McCoy. Gets back to back rings with KC and TB. Has the same amount of carries as you and I.
Does anyone know what the rules for “ring inclusion” are? If you’ve actively played on team A but get traded at the deadline to team B, but team A wins the WS, I know you get a ring. But, was Tatis ever on the 26-man this season? If not, maybe he won’t get a ring if the Friars win it all.
GiantsPhan, from what I know, it is at the sole discretion of ownership because they order/pay for them. They decide which players and staff get them.
Stephen Vogh didn’t get a ring, Adam Wainwright didn’t get a ring in 2011, they better not give him a ring for being suspended if they win
The players vote on it. Same as a playoff share
Pads fan, I have never heard that before friend….Are you positive about that?????????
Not saying I don’t believe you. But where did you hear that from??? I was always under the impression the owners doled them out per their desire. Are you SUPER SURE?? I think you are mistaken…
100%. The NY Times did a great article on it in November 2015. The owners decide how much to spend on the ring and outside of coaches and FO personnel, the players vote on who gets the rings.
I’ll check it out thanks for finding it
Trumbo: Here’s another online article for it. It provides details on those personnel who have/may receive a ring. It also verified that the owners & management have the final say over which players get a ring. Essentially anyone who co tributes to the team’s success during that year may receive one, regardless of how much, how little, or their present status.
screwballtimes.com/articles/who-gets-world-series-…
Appreciate it Clipper
I definitely remember reading about the cubs situation in 2016 about how the players vote for who gets a share of the postseason prize money, but I didn’t realize that also includes the ring…. “So your saying there’s a chance…?”
So what happened? They got off scott free??
Noo! In the movie, they catch up to him a couple miles down the road and slit his throat. It was a good one!
Lol… glad you picked up on that!
Frankly, I’ll be happy if either NL team wins over the Yankees or Astros. I guess the only way we find out if the management of the padres has a backbone is if they win the World Series. IMO, if ownership and management wants to keep Nando as motivated as possible to stay clean and help them win more, they would not be giving him a ring to go along with the $330 million they owe him.
Wrong, Stephen Vogt was given a ring by the Braves.
According to Wikipedia (take that for what it’s worth), Wainwright was given a ring in 2011 by the Cardinals It is up to ownership who is given a World Series ring. I highly doubt Wainwright was not given one considering his relationship with the club.
That is a blog. Probably better to read whatever the NY Times or another reputable source had to say about it. That is on you. Your choice.
The World Series ring gift tradition is completely up to individual team ownership. Design, cost and distribution.
When Washington won in 2019, I remember reading something about how a group of veterans vote on who should get a share, not necessarily rings, though.
Ripper, I asked that very question yesterday. The sole reply I got was : “He is a member of the team so YES he gets a ring.”
Yeah that is a shame, but man, honestly it might be a bigger burden on him if he receives a ring. Like how can he ever wear that and not get dirty looks and comments from people? It would almost be like a curse for him to wear it…
Attaboy…You took it even a step further…”Cursed Ring!” Haha Yep yep….
Another narcissist we can hook up with Soto & Acuna. The new three stooges…
I googled this myself after the Friars beat the Dodgers to advance. He’s contracted with the team I’m fairly certain he would get a ring. Forgot who it was but there was a player that got a WS and he was on the opposing team but because he was with the WS championship team for more than half the season. He still got a ring.
For one reason or another players that aren’t active on a world series championship team their Wikipedia page doesn’t list them as winning regardless of being with the organization at the time the said team won.
Bengie Molina got one in 2010 when the Giants won even though he was on the Rangers because he was with the Giants until July. Melky Cabrera got suspended in 2012, I’m not 100% sure if he got a ring from that title or not, but I bet he did.
Yeah, Cabrara got a ring in 2012. Got one for the Yankees in 2009 as well. He actually played in that series though.
Difference is Tatis didn’t appear in a single game for the Padres in 2022. Molina appeared with the Giants in several games in 2010 and Cabrera in 2012.
Freedie freeman, he also wasn’t suspended?
Wow this guy didn’t even recover what a human being.
You would think all the HGH he took would have healed him up by now.
He didn’t take hgh
Maybe he should have instead to help heal…….
@Wander Javier- He didn’t? You we’re there to confirm?
@All He was busted for using Clostebol. Do you have proof he also used hgh?
Who cares what he specifically used? All that matters is that he used an anabolic steroid because he’s an idiot.
No. He is a troll. Tatis was busted for Clostebol which means he is an idiot or who ever gave it to him is an idiot and he trusted them instead of checking with MLB which makes him a double idiot.
HGH is not steroids. It is a PED. It definitely matters what he took. Some are very easy to cover up your usage.
Its almost impossible to cover up Clostebol usage which means if he was trying to juice it would have been the absolute wrong one to use. You are right that it means he is an idiot.
From the description of Clostebol. “Clostebol usually as the ester clostebol acetate, is a synthetic anabolic–androgenic steroid. Clostebol is the 4-chloro derivative of the natural hormone testosterone.”
It’s easy to forget that just because someone is terrific at one aspect of life, that isn’t proof against their being an abject fool everywhere else.
There are skilled jugglers, Olympic athletes, and extraordinary baseball pitchers with IQs around 85.
When’s the procedure scheduled for the ringworm?
At the ring ceremony
So much talent, accumulating baggage.
Oh yes… I almost forgot his new nickname is Ringworm.
Wonder if he’ll use steroids to recover from it.
Cheaters will always one step ahead of the tests. The fact that players are still getting caught here and there shows that there’s numerous players still using steroids. If the tests were good enough, players wouldn’t even consider risking it. Tatis slipped up, just like Laureano did.. and many others.
The fact that players are still getting caught is likely proof that some players are really, really dumb.
The Padres are in the NLCS and they will get Tatis Jr. back to replace Bell and Drury.
And the suspension is reduced by each Padres post-season game. There are 25 games left and the Padres will play between four and fourteen more, leaving a balance for 2023 of 11 to 21.
Always enjoyed watching the player, but is he one of the guys that effects the team in a negative manner off the field?
I wonder if the Padres could do it all again would they not give Tatis that extension and would they non-tender him given his choices so far
Why would they non-tender him if the RS were willing to rehire Joey Cora?
you mean Alex
Yes.
They’d probably wait until after he gets suspended to try and extend him because it lowers his leverage but he’d get scooped up so quick if they non-tendered him.
Would be really funny if they put him on waivers before he had enough time to reject an assignment.
He probably gets claimed if they do that.
Are you freaking kidding? Tatis is a generational talent. That he used something that contained Clostebol means he is an idiot, not that that he was trying to cheat. He is incredibly talented.
If the Mets kept an over the hill serial steroid user, what makes you think the Padres would want to cut ties with a 23 year old that is already better than Cano was even at his peak?
@Pads Fans I take your meaning, but Cano put up close to an entire HOF career in just his 8 consecutive peak seasons while Tatis Jr can’t stay healthy and hasn’t played more than 131 games incl his minor league output.
Take Tats’ lone season of that kind (ie Cano’s peak) and multiply it by 8, and only then is he really in the conversation with Cano.
“Already better” is a real stretch. A real stretch.
I wonder how many steroids he’ll take to recover?
It would be flatly hilarious if Tats was caught again.
When is this game starting?
Make sure they check for ring worm while they’re there.,..wouldn’t want another “accident.”
He is the only MLB player I recall NOT appealing a PED suspension.
Feel like most of them don’t
I think it is the opposite
I think Harambe would know.
Why, does he juice?
Last year the Braves won the WS without Acuna Jr.
Will the Padres do the same without Tatis Jr.?
I always thought he was a little overrated and now I think this contract, even in its incredible length and relative cost effectiveness, will wind up a very expensive albatross.
Baseball is weird in that there seem to be guys who play their best in contract years, or always playing for the big pay day, and as soon as they get it, they disappear, they become perennially injured to the point they might as well not exist and then there are guys who play through massive contracts like nothing has changed and they’re the same guy who earned the deal when they were making relative peanuts.
I think Tatis, Jr. is the kind of player who needs to be playing for the payday and once he got a career-spanning guaranteed deal that’s effectively at market value, he immediately disconnected from baseball.
It’s the Yoenis Cespedes situation except instead of four awkward years it’ll be 14 awkward years.
The hot shot lawyers could always try and get his contract voided..You never know..
He’s 23 years old. He made a mistake while the lockout was in effect, then another because he was embarrassed and trying to recover faster to get back to the game. Remember you said this nonsense when he’s winning multiple MVPs over the next decade.
Remember? How could I forget? Why would I care about him winning “multiple” MVP’s??? I could give a hoot less about him and the entire SD organization.
My response was clearly to the OP calling the contract of a 23 year old an albatross, not you. Congrats on not giving a hoot about something you chose to comment on multiple times.
Isn’t commenting on this crap the point to begin with? I figured you would say that…In any case, I was responding to that comment regardless of whom it was addressed. Cry me a river
@trumbo you seem to care or give a “hoot” if your commenting on the padres(Tatis) story. If you didn’t care about Tatis or padres, you would clicked on the next headline.
No Vegas. I am afraid that life is a little more complex than that. Don’t feel like getting into a debate on semantics. I’m sorry it is so contradictory to you but I assure you my mind is resting easy and hardly conflicted. 80% of the articles on here I “don’t care” about yet still post on them and scour the replies…Imagine that….How is it all possible?? Didn’t mean to bad mouth El Nino and ruin the start of your week friend..
You commented about him. That means you “give a hoot” Try telling the truth so you don’t look totally disingenuous. .
By definition, that means you care about them. You can try to claim you don’t, but you would not spend one second of your time if you didn’t care.
You would not insert emotion into your comments if you didn’t care a lot.
Taking PEDs isn’t a mistake! A mistake is like when you stub your toe or accidentally call your wife by your ex-wife’s name.
Called a girl I was seeing once by my ex girlfriends name on pure accident of course….She looked at me and smiled, and softly said “Get Out!” Hahaha Never make that mistake twice..
Unless your ex-wife’s name is the same as your present wife’s name
Brew, haha So I was with my ex for a few years, started dating someone else pretty soon after. Their names were actually very similar..I don’t know how it happened but it did. Never been married…Probably has something to do with it..
Or taking that plunge the second time
Haha There was never a 1st…They were merely “girlfriends.” I didn’t make honest women out of any of them..
because he was embarrassed and trying to recover faster to get back to the game.
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This is the same excuse every player uses for using PEDs. “I was only trying to get back to help the team”.
If he was trying to get back faster to help the team he would have used a steroid that is fast acting and easy to cover up. Instead he used Clostebol which is pretty useless for that purpose and nearly impossible to cover up. Getting caught for clostebol means you are an idiot, not a cheat.
jason giambi jr
I agree with you. You never notice in the last 15 years some of these fantastic hitting first baseman who were regularly around .330, .340, when they got the big contracts they slipped down to .250? Mark Teixeira, Adrian Gonzalez, etc.
They still prepared the same way, they still approached it the same, but there’s something in the mind that has the sense of urgency or not when those massive checks come in every month.
Or it’s Father Time.
Fwiw, what you described is about what you’d get if you just rolled the dice. In fact, players play at most a hair better, on average, in their walk years.
Still, guaranteeing a lifetime of riches to a kid seems odd. Even so, the average annual cost to the Padres of Tatis, Jr, is $24m, so if he only shows up in July he’ll probably be nominally worth the money cost. As a Pads fan, though? I wouldn’t want him on my team.
“Got in another motorcycle accident.”
Now I REALLY want the Padres to win the World Series this year. I can’t wait for the Padres to have a ring ceremony and see Tatis NOT get one. Hopefully the Padres will let it be a surprise!
No kidding! Is he even in the dugout? The stands?
Yeeesh
The number of people here trashing this kid is insane. I hope everyone keeps this same energy when he comes back next season and picks up right where he left off. Yes, he made a couple bad decisions as a young man – but he’s still going to out-earn his contract by FAR. About a month into next season, people will be excited by his insane ability again, and this will be a small blip on an outstanding career.
You hope.
Gimme a friggin break! He lost himself the HOF in one fell swoop! Take your “young man” garabage and shove it!
This reads to me like someone who very much gives a hoot, lol. Who mentioned the Hall of Fame? David Ortiz says hello!
Yeah I care bunches. You got me. Papi juiced? Says who? You are quite the inside man…And I mentioned the HALL OF FAME obviously! Or does that not matter to you? Is that not important anymore?
No, it certainly doesn’t matter to me at all anymore. When they choose to acknowledge MLB’s all-time home run king, the all-time hits leader, the player with the most MVPs of all time, and the player with the most Cy Youngs of all time, it’ll be relevant and important again. Until then, it’s just a dusty museum in a remote part of NY built on a mix of baseball history and inconsistent virtue signaling.
Yeah. Dusty Old Museum. Okie Dokie. Have a good night friend.
P.S. He was the best talent I had seen since 2012 Mike Trout. Had Mike Trout 2.0 written all over him. Forget 5 tools. He has 6. That is where I was with him…So, one could hardly say I have been a lifetime hater of the guy. Much the opposite. Things can turn on a DIME in this world!
Was the 6th tool a Somatropin kit?
No. It was something to do with nootropics and harnessing his 3rd eye.
I quickly became a big fan of him as well. He’s so exciting to watch. This revelation certainly was a huge disappointment. I’m also willing to move past it all and root for him again, but he’s gotta prove to me now that the aberration was his poor decision. Maybe it was really some ringworm meds, as laughable as it all sounds. But the kid’s gonna have a lot of pressure on himself to prove he’s a legit star now. So it’s all on him. He did this to himself, and if he really was clean the whole time then I guess he really shouldn’t have much to worry about. But it would be sad if his performance wasn’t nearly as good and then he starts using these surgeries as an excuse.
Amen!!
Hard not to be a fan back when he homered off Bauer and covered one eye as he rounded first and went toward second. Too bad he squandered so much fan goodwill. It will take a long time to get it back. But AROD is on tv covering games so Tatis still has a chance to be a megastar, even if it is a tainted history. The issue now is can he stay healthy as much as can he avoid the stupidity.
I’d prefer it if players acted as though they’d ever hit a HR of struck a hitter out, previously.
Proving once again that you DO give a hoot. That you care very much about this subject. Why did you feel it necessary to try to lie about it. Just man up and say it.
Instead you try to insult other commenters because they speak the truth Tatis is going to excel because regardless of 2022, he is immensely talented and will be in MLB for more than a decade. He will earn more than $300 million even after losing a few million in 2022 and the first few weeks of 2023.
Considering his career numbers prior to 2022 were .965 OPS and 160 OPS+ with 81 HR in 273 games, its a given that with his talent level that he will be in MVP talk most seasons.
But hey, keep on trying to tell yourself that you don’t care or that what has been said about his talent is not true.
What is true is that you are jealous that he is not on the team you root for. How are those Dodgers doing?
Not competing with your 5000 word essay Pads. Truce? I’m bored already.
He very well may have “insane ability” but we won’t know how well he can play until we also know he’s not using PEDs anymore. Any play before this has legitimate questions….
Nobody can say when this guy started using, but we know he did use at a very, very young age. If he’s that good, he will be back. But, as we’ve seen with many PED-using star-level players, particularly after injuries…..he may not recover his prior form either. Only time will tell.
He was using PEDs to recover from an injury. There’s no drug you can take that can make you play the way Tatis did for the first 3 years of his career, that’s not how steroids work. There’s absolutely zero reason to think he’d suddenly lose that ability at age 24.
Phnxdark23: I don’t doubt that at all. But I do disagree that PEDs can’t help one play like that. There’s a reason that these already-talented people in all N American sports, Olympics, etc, use PEDs at the risk of their reputation and career. They make athletes faster, stronger, better, and provide faster healing ability as well (for muscular tissue). In reality, “healing faster” is somewhat a misnomer. It really strengthens the muscles around the damage and leads people to believe they are healed – it masks injuries better. It leads to better performance overall.
But, as I said, perhaps he was just using it to heal. Perhaps he was using it for performance. Truth is: we just don’t know. But, the future will show us what type of player he will be….. in time.
At my 25year school reunion, one of the guys was HUGE. Well over6ft and as wide as a football player! Wow! He was a giant.
When he turned up at our 50year reunion, he was back down to 5’8 or 5’9. Probably wore a medium size shirt. His once smooth face was hideously pocked,
I wonder what happened.
Do you seriously think that steroids MAKE YOU TALLER!?! Or that stopping them makes you SHORTER? I guarantee that anyone who is at a 25 year HS reunion (and Tatis), their growth plates have closed.
He was using PEDs to recover from an injury.
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You don’t know that. You’re simply making excuses for him.
phnxdark23: I was wondering about the notion that Tatis, Jr. was taking the drug to aid his recovery. Has that been confirmed? As far as I know, he himself did not state this.
Prunella, when you saw him at the 25yr reunion, I am assuming you were all around 42-43ish, did he happen to tell you his occupation?
He was a police sergeant.
Hahaha Nice!
At our 50 year reunion, he was retired from the force, and was head of security for some company such as Home Depot. Can’t remember which one.
To me, logic suggests it was an attempt to strengthen shoulder muscles. So short term recklessness. Avoiding surgery, wanting to play. Young, dumb and full
of …….. bravado.
Just a young sprat. A wee lil lad….Sowing his crazy little wild oats….Kids being kids….You people are Funny. With a capital F.
That wasn’t you at one stage ?
There’s a few that don’t go through that, and kudos if you didn’t, but I wasn’t one of them ! I sort of feel obliged to cut him a little bit of slack. 34 and I’m showing no mercy.
Not with 300+ million bucks on the table.
Fair enough. No disputing selfish.
Yeah Clipper!!!!! The man was just trying to RECOVER!!! How dare you!!! Innocent mistake!!
We know Tatis never played with PED. He was injured when he tested positive. If you are using clostebol, you get caught. Every time. It stays in your system for a month or more, the O- and N- sulfate metabolites are detectable in the tests MLB uses for 3 times that, and its nearly impossible to mask. He may not recover his prior form based on the two injuries he has had. Look at Bellinger. I am hoping he does. We need more young players like him that are relatable to grow the sport.
Outinleftfield, I was a pretty big fan…Had not seen talent like that since Trout when he first came up. Maybe some time passes, he keeps his nose clean, I’ll start to forgive and forget a wee bit.
About a month into next season, Padre fans will be wondering “what if” when they fail to win the NLCS or the World Series after being shut down by Wheeler and Nola and Verlander and Valdez and Garcia.
padres and mlb fans should bash ye ring worm..
the club probably raised ticket prices after they signed him.
now they are paying for nothing.
One team gave a food voucher to the fans based on what they had to pay a steroid player suspended one year.
Yeah. The man can play. He is elite. Just needs to pull back on the invincibility thing he has going on.
A player has to be elite for more than a season and a half, in my book, to truly be considered elite. Until then, he’s a flash in the pan.
He had ringworm in his wrist?
Scratching too deeply?
I said they should’ve traded him for Soto instead of the prospects and Padres fans went nuts. Could’ve dumped his contract, used that surplus on Soto and keep their elite top of the farm
What makes you think the Nats would’ve preferred trading for him to trading for five affordable prospects (and Voit as a throw-in)?
What makes you think the Nationals would have taken that contract on?
The reason the Nationals shopped him was that they presented their best offer to Soto’s agent and he rejected it. They wanted multiple prospects in return.
There’s NO WAY the Nats were doing that
Well, you can listen to your neighborhood PED dealer, or you can listen to the bodybuilder websites with links to PED dealers, or you can listen to the doctors and scientists who aren’t selling ‘roids and who tell you that using them weakens connective tissue, inviting future and recurring injuries. Take your pick.
The juice is bad. Just look at how many pro wrestlers have passed long before their time.
Wrestlers that died early can mostly accredit that mostly to all those hits to the head and HGH abuse causing their organs to grow uncontrollably. Most people don’t understand HGH assists the growth of all tissue in the body. Anabolic and androgenic steroids do not promote tissue/organ growth
Another inside man. Sold. I’ll be picking up some HGH after I hit Farmer Boys for my breakfast burrito tomorrow.
TJT: BUT, steroids promote cellular growth. And that’s deadly as well (consider its effect on prostate growth and disease, among others). Steroids can also fry certain organs, such as kidneys, and promote growth of muscles, like the heart muscle, which is also deadly.
Essentially, any hormone people introduce into their bodies, in addition to what the human body naturally makes & regulates, are taking a risk. Why? Because nobody knows how their bodies will respond to using…until it’s too late.
Steroids also can negatively affect one’s mind, creating issues such as paranoia, emotional instability, etc.
I have a family member who was a professional power lifter. He used steroids and experienced some of the side effects. Unfortunately, the human body’s response to artificially increased hormones is completely unpredictable.
Fernando Tatis, Jr. deserves all the mocking that he gets here and more, but . . . .
More than half of the 30 MLB teams would agree to assume Tatis and his contract and would be more than willing to include a few small pieces in return.
Tatis remains a risk due to his attitude and judgment, but the contract is a reasonable risk.
Hot dog!
Prima Donna!
Foolish immature idiot
Who do you speak of Old Man??
Think San Diego is regretting that contract?
Nope. Not one bit.
Hulk Hogan prescribes Fernando Tatis Jr. with his vitamins like he did his dad, brother!
Wouldn’t he get 10-and-5 rights at some point during the 2029 season?
Oh man the Padres are gonna forever regret this contract. He’s the next Hector Olivera
I’m pretty sure the Padres first order of business this offseason will be to try and have Tatis’s contract renogiated like the Mets did with Cespedes, which in my opinion is completely warranted due to injuring himself in a dirt bike accident then trying to cover up his injury by not getting it treated and allowing his broken wrist to heal improperly.
It was a ridiculous contact from the moment it was signed. The dude is flat out injury prone, worse than Strasburg, and to sign him to a 340mil contact after one season in which he missed half the season due to an injury was the most fiscally irresponsible signing I’ve ever seen. They had him for nothing for 6 years and could offer him an absurd contract after year 5 or 6 if his health and play warranted it.
I know the 340mil is a drop in the bucket to the Padres wealthy owners but it skews the teams ability to resign Soto or sign other great players.
Jose Canseco is the real guy to blame. He should’ve never invited Nando to his steroid party.
theonion.com/canseco-hey-guys-who-wants-to-come-to…
hogwash!
I’m sure there’s some HGH fungal ointment to help the healing process.
Padres should win the WS and show one of the rings to Tatis and say “oh sorry, you already have one”.
#gotheeeeeeeeeeem
Its interesting that even though he is injured and can’t play, each game the Padres play counts toward his suspension, even playoff games.
The deeper in the postseason the Padres go, the more games in the 2023 regular season that come off Tatis’ suspension. As of today he will be eligible to come off his suspension in late-April. I believe he will have served 59 games of his suspension by the end of the NLCS if its a sweep one way or the other. That means he would be available April 21st in Arizona.
It’s a little weird, ain’t it? He may not get a ring but he’ll be back mid-April now. Win win for Pads
The players vote on who gets rings and playoff shares. He could very well get a ring.
Thanks. Yeah, I wasn’t sure how that works in such a unique case as this.
The fact that Tatis didn’t play in a single game this year definitely hurts his chances Koamalu.
It is easy to be a man when you are getting $300 million. One way for him to be a man is to decline the ring and say “I want to earn one myself”. Tatis can do that and still keep his paycheck but get a little goodwill after having screwed up so much.
He might earn a smidge of goodwill if he turns it down himself..
Definitely agree.
Best take of this article
Embarrassment to his teammates and MLB. Not a positive role model for kids at all. His show boating and arrogance is a huge turn off and the Padres should offload him the first chance they get. He’s not worth the hype. Padres are doing just fine without him.
3 surgeries in 8 months, production could dip next year