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The San Diego Padres are gearing up for one more playoff flee.
On Monday, Dennis Lin, Josh Tolentino and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported the Padres agreed to invent starting up pitcher Blake Snell from the Tampa Bay Rays in swap for Luis Patino, Francisco Mejia, Blake Hunt and Cole Wilcox, pending medical opinions.
That plot Snell will be a part of an already-gallant rotation for the next two years, as ESPN’s Jeff Passan pointed out:
Padres 2021 Rotation
- Blake Snell
- Dinelson Lamet
- Zach Davies
- Chris Paddack
- MacKenzie Gore/Joey Lucchesi/Adrian Morejon/Ryan Weathers
Padres 2022 Rotation
- Blake Snell
- Dinelson Lamet
- Mike Clevinger
- Chris Paddack
- MacKenzie Gore/Joey Lucchesi/Adrian Morejon/Ryan Weathers
It needs to be eminent Mike Clevinger will budge over the 2021 season attributable to of Tommy John surgical blueprint but is scheduled to return for the 2022 advertising and marketing campaign and add one more gallant arm to the rotation.
The Padres made the playoffs within the shortened 2020 season, which used to be their first postseason look since the 2006 advertising and marketing campaign. They additionally haven’t won a playoff series since they went to the World Sequence in 1998.
They’ve a capture-now roster in web relate online with Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and a starting up rotation with a high ceiling after the addition of Snell to a group that already had Dinelson Lamet and Zach Davies.
Snell won the 2018 American League Cy Young Award when he used to be on the Rays and performed the 2020 advertising and marketing campaign with a 3.24 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 63 strikeouts in 50 innings. He additionally pitched successfully within the playoffs with a 3.03 ERA and helped lead the Rays to the World Sequence.
Whereas his Tumble Fundamental will be easiest remembered for Tampa Bay supervisor Kevin Cash’s resolution to pull him early within the group’s Sport 7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Snell is a postseason-examined ragged who can anchor San Diego’s rotation into October.
Having him accessible with one of the critical youthful avid gamers and forming a one-two punch with Clevinger in 2022 would possibly presumably presumably quiet support the Padres compete with the Dodgers and others within the National League West.
