"To be honest, I almost cried."
The Petco Park ovation for Pedro Avila struck quite the chord with the
#Padres
' 26-year-old rookie after he beat the
#Phillies
for his first career win after more than 682 innings in the minors.
Machado was at the top step to crown Kim with the swagg chain.
Kim: "He's like my big brother in the clubhouse. He always tries to help me, try to give me advice, try to make me laugh. I’m always happy around him."
"I just didn’t know why I wasn’t seeing the ball.”
After a month of neurology/ophthalmology tests,
#Padres
Austin Nola has some clarity:
A vision issue impacting brain's ability to coordinate eyes.
Nola hasn't played for
@epchihuahuas
since Aug. 2.
Brent Honeywell has been told he made the team.
Seeing his jersey hanging between Tim Hill’s and Seth Lugo’s: “This is the best day of my life.”
He’s been in majors before but never made an opening day roster. He says this is “my true debut.”
What did Bauer think of Tatis' celebrations?
"You give up a homer, a guy should celebrate it. It's hard to hit in the big leagues. I'm all for it and I think it's important that the game moves in that direction."
Sometimes it's like Ha-Seong Kim doesn't understand what a big deal he is in San Diego.
On his bobblehead day on Tuesday:
"It's a blessing. I'm happy to have my own bobblehead day. I hope a lot of fans come and get their own."
Profar on Tatis:
"I'm there by his side. I'm talking to him every day. He's feeling very bad and everyone is talking bad. That's how the world (is). You make one mistake and everyone wants to crucify you, but not me. ...
(1 / 2)
#Padres
aren’t making travel party public until after the game, but Graham Pauley’s name is on a bus list with players that are DEFINITELY going to Korea.
He learned last night.
"Los Angeles" Chargers cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. throwing out the first pitch at Petco Park .... in San Diego ... is certainly a ... choice.
He was booed very lightly. Even with Joe Musgrove catching.
Mass movementup up the
#Padres
system:
Ethan Salas
Robby Snelling
Graham Pauley
Jakob Marsee
Nathan Martorella
All to Double-A
@missionsmilb
Dylan Lesko and Samuel Zavala to High Single-A
@TinCaps
Dillon Head to Low Single-A
@Storm_Baseball
Clubhouse scene:
Pretty barren. Wil Myers walks in, goes to his locker as media crowds around.
Never a no from Myers since he’s been here.
“Someone’s gotta do it.”
Other side of clubhouse: Darvish, Manaea and Martinez huddling talking pitch shape like nothing’s happened.
Logan Allen’s line from his first big league start: 7 IP, 3 hits, 0 runs, two walks, 5 Ks (90 pitches, 56 strikes)
Back home with his nurses in Ashville, N.C., big brother Philip approves.
Austin Hedges, a good catcher, has had one thing made clear to him by
#Padres
manager Jayce Tingler: "If you want to make this team, you have to get on base."
#Padres
roster review:
No Tatis? No problem.
All Ha-Seong Kim did in his sophomore year was turn in the second-best shortstop season in franchise history.
"You can go to a franchise that’s done it however many times or you can be a part of one that’s going to do it for the first time. I want to be a part of something like that.”
Matt Carpenter "fired up" as he joins
#Padres
team gathering momentum.
Some important updates on
#Padres
broadcasts:
Free streams through the end of the weekend on MLB app, and .
Cable deals secured, channel lineups to come.
Local blackout lifted in San Diego.
“It means a lot to me and my family. My dad was really (emotional)."
#Padres
notes: Jorge Alfaro on the new mural and feeling at home in San Diego with all the good vibes from fans. Plus the latest on Manny Machado.
The
#Padres
have said all along they did not believe Luis Campusano's offseason arrest would impact his availability.
It's official now: Georgia prosecutors are not pursuing charges.
Bit of an altercation in the
#Padres
clubhouse this morning.
Campusano's French Bulldogs Cookie and Pablo were tied up at his locker.
The Yellow Lab doing the security sweep came by.
Things were said between the dogs, but all parties walked away before it got out of hand.
A small but not insignificant update:
#Padres
SS prospect CJ Abrams (shoulder) back to full baseball activity this month in AZ and SD.
#Padres
will look to get him playing in mini camp before minor league spring training starts (or if big league camp ever gets going).
From "All the Small Things" to the Tatis saga to Manny Machado and Juan Soto and everything in between, the 22 moments that defined the
#Padres
2022 season.
Surprise, surprise:
Fernando Tatis Jr. leads all NL shortstops in All-Star fan balloting as he seeks to become first
#Padres
player VOTED into the starting lineup since Tony Gwynn in 1999 (injured, DNP).
A lot of muttering in this Matt Waldron live BP.
“Jesus Christ.”
“Disgusting.”
“It’s moving like a mother_______”
Guys just don’t see knuckleballs much.
Fernando Tatis Jr. is expected to rejoin the Padres on Monday, to be in and around the team before he comes off the suspension list Thursday.
TBD if they put together a simulated game to get him ABs to stay fresh or send him to
@Storm_Baseball
on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Luis Campusano is hitting on the field as we speak. He's expected to catch a bullpen later today.
Significant steps in coming back from his left thumb sprain.
...
"I'm there to support him and get him through this and get him back on the field whenever he is eligible and show the world what kind of player he is again."
(end)
Wil Myers is on the
#Reds
injured list with an undisclosed illness, is not here and will not be here at all through the
#Reds
' one trip to Petco Park this year.
Bummer.