The San Diego Padres have enjoyed a peaceful offseason.
The Padres need to make some big roster additions after a paucity of major league acquisitions, a failed Roki Sasaki sweepstakes, and now losing Tanner Scott – both of whom ended up with the Dodgers.
San Diego made it to the last game of the NLDS against the eventual champions and was only a few runs away from advancing to the NLCS. The current team has shown that it can compete with baseball’s would-be champions, but supporters want to win.
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The Dodgers are not the only club retooling; witnessing other teams progress while San Diego remains stagnant is very disturbing. When Opening Day approaches in a few months, the previous year’s record and accomplishments will be meaningless.
Dylan Cease, a right-hander, was just inked to a one-year contract worth $13.75 million to avoid arbitration. He is a name that comes up when it comes to trading current players in order to avoid spending too much money on free agents.
MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand recently wrote on Cease in relation to the current pitching market in MLB.
“Given the need for starting pitching around the league, the Padres would likely be open to trading Cease if they can find a team willing to part with controllable players and/or prospects.”
San Diego is more than ready to move on from Cease. However, acquiring enough assets to make the trade worthwhile while simultaneously executing a transaction that improves the roster may be more difficult to locate.
Given Cease’s performance last season, the worst-case scenario of him continuing in the rotation does not look to be all that horrible.
During his debut season with San Diego, the 29-year-old went 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA. In his career-high 189.1 innings thrown, he threw 224 strikeouts and 65 walks.
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