Padres’ Up to this point Starting Rotation After Reported Yu Darvish Swap
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The San Diego Padres are all-in on the 2021 season.
On Monday, Sahadev Sharma, Dennis Lin and Patrick Mooney of The Athletic reported the Padres are procuring pitcher Yu Darvish and catcher Victor Caratini from the Chicago Cubs in alternate for pitcher Zach Davies and potentialities Reginald Preciado, Owen Caissie, Yeison Santana and Ismael Mena.
Essentially the most intelligent switch comes on the heels of one more marquee alternate spirited a family title at pitcher.
Lin, Josh Tolentino and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported Sunday that San Diego traded for pitcher Blake Snell, sending the Tampa Bay Rays Luis Patino, Francisco Mejia, Blake Hunt and Cole Wilcox.
The additions of Darvish and Snell way the Padres may per chance well accept as true with one of many staunch starting up rotations in all of baseball:
- Yu Darvish
- Blake Snell
- Dinelson Lamet
- Chris Paddack
- MacKenzie Gore/Joey Lucchesi/Adrian Morejon/Ryan Weathers
What’s more, they’re going to accept as true with Mike Clevinger available in 2022 although he’s going to miss the 2021 campaign thanks to Tommy John surgical treatment. Including him to that neighborhood will have San Diego even greater over the direction of the subsequent couple of seasons, which is totally pertaining to to the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
San Diego has received appropriate one playoff assortment since it reached the World Series in 1998 but has the pieces in self-discipline to exchange that with Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado main the offense and Snell and Darvish spearheading the rotation.
Snell was as soon as the 2018 American League Cy Younger Award winner who helped lead the Rays to closing yr’s World Series, whereas Darvish was as soon as a Cy Younger contender closing season who helped lead the Cubs to a Nationwide League Central title.
Darvish done the 2020 campaign with a 2.01 ERA, 0.96 WHIP and 93 strikeouts in 76 innings.
If he comes anyplace with regards to that in 2021, the Padres will likely be on the short list of championship contenders.