caulfield12 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 "This could end up being one heck of a steal for the Padres, as some relievers like Emilio Pagan and Joe Kelly are going for $8 million a year. Despite having Robert Suarez and Yuki Matsui, Heyman said Go is likely to be the team’s closer (not sure if I believe that)." Surely closes the door on Hader returning...Snell is another issue altogether, but likely done with SD unless his price sinks below $150 million. Go, 25, pitched for the LG Twins in South Korea for the past seven seasons, posting a sub 3 ERA in three of the seven years. He has combined for 87 saves in the last three years. His posting window was scheduled to end today at 2 p.m. so the Padres are getting this done almost at the deadline. https://www.gaslampball.com/2024/1/2/24023367/report-padres-close-to-signing-woo-suk-go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFanMike Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 This happened like 2 weeks ago. Lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 Since we've spent 100's of thread pages on the Orioles...I have felt all along the Padres were a really good match for Cease due to the limited financial commitment, the "win now" situation AJ Preller currently finds himself in and the pressure on the Padres/DBacks/Giants created by all the Dodgers' moves over the offseason. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/san-diego-padres-2024-top-mlb-prospects/ They were considered somewhere between 7th and 9th coming into the offseason in prospect rankings, and have surely moved up to #6-7 MiLB system ranking with the signing on the #1 international prospect in SS Leodalis de Vrieze. This after being ranked as low as #28 at the bottom of their first rebuild in 2019-2021. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/san-diego-padres-top-39-prospects/ They also have 4 pitchers in their Top 7. One has to assume their Top 3 and probably De Vrieze are not going to be made available. White Sox fans would ask for Lesko or Snelling...pretty obviously, as their top piece. 5 Nathan Martorella 22.4 A+ 1B 2026 45 6 Robby Snelling 19.5 A+ SP 2027 40+ 7 Adam Mazur 22.2 A+ SP 2026 40+ 8 Samuel Zavala 19.0 A RF 2026 40+ 9 Brandon Valenzuela 22.8 AA C 2024 40+ 10 Estuar Suero 17.8 R CF 2028 40+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 (edited) Padres with 6 on BA Top 100, tied fir most in majors with 5/6 in the Top 57 selections and two Top 17. And had a lower ranked farm system than the Sox over this same rebuild period...bottoming out at #28. BA Top 100 this week #8 Ethan Salas #17 Jackson Merrill #27 P Robby Snelling #38 P Dylan Lesko #57 RHP Drew Thorpe #99 SS deVrieze, hasn’t played stateside after signing as #1 BA international name this past week Plus Mazur, Martorella, Zavala, Dillon Head, Jairo Iriarte, Marsee, Eguy Rosario, Homer Bush, Jr. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/san-diego-padres-2024-top-mlb-prospects/ Edited January 18 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Is this a Padres catch all thread now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 (edited) On 1/18/2024 at 8:43 AM, Chicago White Sox said: Is this a Padres catch all thread now? Sure...personally have already learned everything about the Orioles that I care to ever know. It's going to be an extremely interesting year because HaSeong Kim could get a lot back in a rental trade based on 2023 performance...yet they don't have any idea what to do with the outfield and back of rotation yet. So Cease continues to be the most logical choice because of their financial tightrope. If they hold and wait for the next wave of prospects...it might be too late with Darvish/Musgrove and Machado getting older. Bogaerts and Cronenworth, too. Rock and a hard place in that division. "I had a (non-Padres) scouting executive tell me I should quit this exercise and just write a profile about De Vries, who is one of the more talented prospects to come along in the last five to 10 years." is frickin' awesome. But it makes me laugh that these kids are signed at, like, 1201AM and we already have all these photos and videos of him playing in Padres' gear. When scouting chief Logan White left the Dodgers and came to the Padres, their caribbean scouting took off. The Padres' rookie camp in D.R. and Fernando Tatis helped put the Padres in the minds of Caribbean players, so Padre gear is popular in countries where the team was little-known just a couple decades ago.” gaslampball.com Edited January 19 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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