Catcher Austin Hedges, who made his big league debut a year ago for the Padres, also was called up. “These guys, especially the ones that are coming up for the first time, they’ve earned this right to be here”. TV: 10:10 p.m. ET, CSN Bay Area (San Francisco), FSN San Diego PITCHING MATCHUP: Giants RH Jeff Samardzija (11-10, 3.97 ERA) vs. Padres LH Christian Friedrich (5-10, 4.78) Samardzija received a no-decision Saturday in the Giants’ 3-2 loss to St. Louis, allowing one run on five hits and four walks with four strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. San Diego is 64-88 this season and while they are getting a very productive year out of Wil Myers who is enjoying a resurgence after a sluggish season last year, they need to surround him with some more bats as they are getting torched by teams on some nights but are losing some winnable games as well as they simply don’t have the bats to put teams away. “They’re going to have time and opportunity to perform”.
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The Red Sox sent Margot, Asuaje, Javier Guerra and Logan Allen to the Padres for closer Craig Kimbrel on November 13.
As a prospect, the former first-round draft pick is considered to have near-elite raw power that is diminished some by his propensity to swing and miss. Two made their major league debuts as pinch-hitters in the seventh.
Mississippi State and San Diego fans have openly questioned why the Padres did not elevate Renfroe to the big league much earlier in the year.
“It’s great for them”. “Their phones are blowing up right now”. They need to go about playing baseball. “It will also kind of give us a little bit of a road map for the offseason”.
San Francisco came in trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers by six games in the NL West, with 10 to play. It has had only two winning seasons since making consecutive postseason appearances in 2005 and 2006.
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Last week, Major League Baseball suspended Padres general manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay, an unprecedented punishment for failing to disclose medical information when pitcher Drew Pomeranz was traded to the Boston Red Sox in July.
