SAN DIEGO -- In need of pitching anywhere they can find it, the Padres made sure on Tuesday that two of their most promising young arms would not be left exposed to next month’s Rule 5 Draft. San Diego added right-handers Miguel Mendez and Garrett Hawkins to its 40-man roster

PEORIA, Ariz. – Baseball has a way of writing a family’s story. This one begins with James Passilla, a right-handed-hitting shortstop who started his professional career in the Cincinnati Reds' system in Moultrie, Ga., in 1956. Stints in New York, New Mexico, Washington, Florida, Illinois and South Carolina were to

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Braedon Karpathios’ path to the Arizona Fall League has been one of the most unique in this year’s class, but it’s led him to the same destination as some of the game’s top prospects. Soon, it could lead him to San Diego. Hailing from Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County,

There's fatherly advice, and then there's fatherly advice that comes from the status of being a first-round pick in the NFL and five seasons of experience as a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks. So when Lamar King Jr. sought help while dealing with shoulder problems and eventual surgery in

The Arizona Fall League is underway, and the Padres have eight prospects set to play for the Peoria Javelinas. Over the next several weeks, those prospects will compete alongside, and against, some of the best young players from around baseball. Here's a look at three intriguing Padres storylines for the

The road to World Series glory can be paved in a myriad of ways. Each of the 12 teams hoping to be the last ones standing in this year’s postseason have been constructed in very different ways. There are the super-homegrown squads, like the Guardians and Tigers, leading the way

In a world of big tools and top prospects, these Minor Leaguer players stood out amongst the rest in 2025. They were the names that could be found atop the statistical leaderboards all summer, the top performers over the marathon that is the Minor League season. Here are the Minor

On Wednesday, Padres beat reporter AJ Cassavell conducted an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. You can read the full transcript here. But these are the highlights (edited lightly for clarity and brevity):

While the San Diego Padres are battling to stay neck and neck with the Dodgers in the race for the NL West division crown, the Rookie-level DSL Padres Gold team set an example for its parent club by winning a league title. DSL Padres Gold outslugged the DSL Athletics, 12-5,

It's mid-August, the dog days of summer. But players are acting like the season just began, still motivated and energized. On Sunday, the best performances from across the Minor Leagues came from familiar faces excelling at higher levels, both at the plate and on the mound. Here is a sampling

Kevin McGonigle, the newly anointed No. 2 prospect in baseball, paced a homer-happy night around the Minors, slugging a pair for the first time in his professional career. Fellow Top 100 prospects JJ Wetherholt, Franklin Arias, Owen Caissie, Cooper Pratt and Jeferson Quero got in on the long ball fun,

The dust has settled from another wild Padres Trade Deadline. And now that it has, here’s another seemingly annual tradition in San Diego: piecing together the new-look farm system in the aftermath of transactions that largely depleted it. On Monday, MLB Pipeline unveiled its re-rank of the Padres’ top-30 prospects

SAN DIEGO -- It wouldn’t be a proper Deadline day without an A.J. Preller trade binge. The Padres' general manager did not disappoint. Preller reshaped his roster in a major way on Thursday -- making five deals that involved 22 players before the Trade Deadline. The most stunning of those

The Trade Deadline is all about headline-grabbing deals involving bundles of talent, and more often than not, that means prospects are front and center. Even so, the swap the A's and Padres pulled off at the 2025 Deadline stood out for the type of prospect involved, specifically with the A's