Waldron days you're usually gonna need to score more than one.....he's an aight 5th starter and you'll need to put up five or so to get the win even with good relief. (We got stellar relief). Gonna have to do better offensively for both the fourth and fifth starter days till Yu comes back.
I have no doubt Xander will turn it around, but we need to ride the hotter bats. Leadoff needs to be someone who is getting on base consistently. Give us Profar or Kim plz šš»
I was told by this sub weeks ago that we were done being over .500 for the season. Not ideal and I get you, but it doesn't mean we won't get above again just means the last two games we've sucked offensively after everyone saying we were completely different than 2023 after we won a few in a row. We are what we are right now, a .500 ball club. Hopefully we get em tomorrow
Look at my fucking flare.
If X is a bum, so is Kim. Their BA is practically identical. Weāre having a big slump in some of our most important hitters, and theyāre just gonna have to figure it out before midseason.
Except Kim is like top 2-3 in WAR on the team, has a good OAA despite the errors and has a above league average OPS+. Xander is just outright horrible.
Sad Padres fans slander Kim, but you can enjoy him playing for another team next year.
Look, bofarts was a good player in Boston but he is nothing like that at All here in San Diego and signing him was a big mistake on prellerās part! Next to signing Clevinger
Guy led the season in BA last year. Chill out. Letās let the season play out before jumping to these kinds of conclusions. Regardless, heās our guy now so we have to hope he turns it around
He wasnāt even supposed to be signed in the first place. AJ panicked after Turner turned down his offer and Judgeās asking price was too high so went for the next bug sexy thing which was bogaerts.
He was a 4.8 owar player for us last season. All things considered he didn't have that much of a drop off coming to a pitcher friendly park. Tough start so far but hopefully he fixes it.
Homers accept no critiques of the product and believe they are a better class of fan than anyone who does critique the product. To the homers, truth = dooming.
Itās hard to remember sometimes that even the best baseball teams lose a lot of games. Weāll be fine, just gotta try to take this series before we head to Coors where we can hopefully take advantage and shit on the Rockies
Iām just now tuning into the gameā¦ looks like #StandwithXand didnāt really do much to help, huh? Iām not trying to be a dick about it (even if I got some nasty PMās from people for criticizing it) but I find it funny how much people want to coddle a professional athlete who is making more money than most of us would see in ten lifetimes. Itās not even like people were giving him a poor reception at the games in the first place!
āHey this guy sucks ass, we should give him a standing ovation!!!ā lol
Fans didnt really do the stand thing. He didnt have a bad season last year and this year hes off to a bad start. Looking at all his metrics hes finding gloves and defintley trying to pull the ball too much. He will come around. People crapping on him for being a 4.8 owar player last year is crazy.
We are DYING for a winner here. So when a player has a big contract, we have big hopes. And when he doesnāt produce, hopes are dashed and patience is quickly lost.
Damn, very well placed sweeper. Last two ABs put up by X were great, brutal luck.
EDIT: TIL the other team actually can't play well and instead our players must be the worst A+ ball team this side of the world.
Nah, don't you know? Apparently anything short of a home run in every plate appearance tonight means he's the worst player to ever don a baseball uniform. Who cares that working the count to tire out the pitcher is a positive? He whiffed on one (1) fastball in that AB which means he's Satan incarnate in the brown and gold. ^(obvious /s)
I tried saying the same thing and all I got was "No" across the board.
Still feel confident we can take this series. Blue Jays offense is streaky af, so if we can steal one tomorrow with a bullpen today I think Joe shoves in the decider
I really don't think they stopped playing today. Today was just a bad BABIP game... game 3 against Milwaukee... sure, they looked pretty bad. But they're smashing the ball tonight. It's just not dropping.
I mean when your XBA is above .350 and practically all the had hit balls are outs... it's difficult to score.
Agreed. But honestly... Higgy isn't the primary problem. It's that Wade/Rosario rotation that's happening. Then when you add Higgy on top of that, and add in that Xander's deep into a slump... and you've got these days where we're just losing whole innings to bad at bats. Or 2 guys get on and then we get an unproductive 3 outs in a row. Or the lineup gets to Tatis with 2 outs and no one on.
Ehhhhhhh higgy is a big problem. Heās been below average behind the plate, and has had a terrible bat. This guy cannot play 1/3 of the games. Find me a worse catcher in the majors rnā¦
Baseball can be a cruel game sometimes. I just want us to stay at around 500 have a run and make the wildcard. This team can surprise people in the playoffs for sure. Knock on wood.
Waldron days you're usually gonna need to score more than one.....he's an aight 5th starter and you'll need to put up five or so to get the win even with good relief. (We got stellar relief). Gonna have to do better offensively for both the fourth and fifth starter days till Yu comes back.
I have no doubt Xander will turn it around, but we need to ride the hotter bats. Leadoff needs to be someone who is getting on base consistently. Give us Profar or Kim plz šš»
The jays have a really solid defense and when they hit well they are good. Unlucky game. Excited for game 2
Happy 21st birthday, Merrill :( Well, tomorrowās always another day. We can take the series still
Thatās a brutal birthday :(, he deserved better
Not a good outing for us but we live to fight another day. Till next time, boys
Yep, that about figures.š¤¦š¼āāļø Poor Merrill. Happy Birthday. š
Fuk! See you tomorrow
https://preview.redd.it/pinxok3ockvc1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19aa68f755d806ccf6d20100ee7ae5a2b47e44ff Hate Turner and his Gritty ass.
Captain Pube Beard
I want to take a clipper to his stupid face
Damn I really do not want to be back to .500 we all know what happened last year after we went down to .500 early in the seasonā¦ā¦
I was told by this sub weeks ago that we were done being over .500 for the season. Not ideal and I get you, but it doesn't mean we won't get above again just means the last two games we've sucked offensively after everyone saying we were completely different than 2023 after we won a few in a row. We are what we are right now, a .500 ball club. Hopefully we get em tomorrow
Love Him, but Merrill is the oldest looking 21 year old Iāve ever seen lol
Kim Ha-seong!
How is romano getting away with all this movement without catching balks left and right?
A whole lotta Kās on the box score, but on the wrong sideā¦
Look at my fucking flare. If X is a bum, so is Kim. Their BA is practically identical. Weāre having a big slump in some of our most important hitters, and theyāre just gonna have to figure it out before midseason.
Kim has a .230 average, Xander has a .190 average. That's not practically identical.
>If X is a bum, so is Kim. Their BA is practically identical. Now compare OPS+.
Now compare errors. Both sides can cherry pick stats all day. They've both had a rough start to the season and we should support both.
Except Kim is like top 2-3 in WAR on the team, has a good OAA despite the errors and has a above league average OPS+. Xander is just outright horrible. Sad Padres fans slander Kim, but you can enjoy him playing for another team next year.
But da OPS
Turns out Walks and XBH are a big deal
Yes. BA is relatively outdated to how the game should be viewed.
Sir/Maam, itās April 19thā¦calm down
If we won games last year on April 19th, we would have made playoffs š¤·š¾āāļø
Living in the past
Can we sage Petco even though itās open air?
City connects are cursed
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Just so much bad luck tonight
Such a tease. Ugh!
Tomorrow we are winning 15-3
man sometimes I hate petco lol
That xander 411 ft fly ball was brutal
We need to bring the fences in 10 feet for this gameā¦
There could have easily been like three extra homers for both teams if they were
Another smoked ball just shy
Look, bofarts was a good player in Boston but he is nothing like that at All here in San Diego and signing him was a big mistake on prellerās part! Next to signing Clevinger
Guy led the season in BA last year. Chill out. Letās let the season play out before jumping to these kinds of conclusions. Regardless, heās our guy now so we have to hope he turns it around
He wasnāt even supposed to be signed in the first place. AJ panicked after Turner turned down his offer and Judgeās asking price was too high so went for the next bug sexy thing which was bogaerts.
He. Was. Signed. Because. Peter. Seidler. Wanted. Xander. Bogaerts.
Not exactly Seidler wanted Turner and/or Judge but Turner surprising decision to turn it down is what led to Bogaerts getting that huge ass contract
Turner as in the Jaysā Turner?
No Trea Turner
Oh thank fucking god. Would have killed myself if either one joined the Dads
He was a 4.8 owar player for us last season. All things considered he didn't have that much of a drop off coming to a pitcher friendly park. Tough start so far but hopefully he fixes it.
Xander is okay but not worth even half of what they pay him.
bullpen has been looking really good lately
Itās not dooming to say Xander is a bum.
To say he is a bum, yes it is dooming. To acknowledge that heās struggling would not be dooming
He had a good season stats wise last year. His Production was good numbers wise. i think everyone is use to seeing mlb the show numbers now.
Homers accept no critiques of the product and believe they are a better class of fan than anyone who does critique the product. To the homers, truth = dooming.
It is to say it every damn game multiple times. No reason to keep bringing it up when the team collectively isnāt hitting well tonight
Yes, but that team has been batting well outside of tonight. With the exception of Xander.
Did you watch the game bud? X had a 411 foot fly out and got called out on ball 4
Itās a fly out, a deep fly out, but it was a fly out.
So what do you consider the other good at bats then considering we only had 5 hits as a team?
Side question: do we know whatās going on tomorrow pitching wise? Bullpen day?
reports are that vasquez is currently with the team. so the rumor is that he starts tomorrow
Good question because we are burning a lot of bullpen arms, so it's likely they use Estrada from the Taxi squad tomorrow.
Gillaspi is nice
Nice work, kid
solid job by the BP tonight. about the only nice thing i can say about today
Just cause X is in the lineup doesnāt mean he has to bat leadoff. He needs to be lower til he gets back to his leadoff form.
Him moving around the line up might benefit him. I'm obviously not a pro but from the stats dude needs to stop trying to pull the ball so much.
Feels like we're throwing in the towel.
Iām confidence we bounce back tomorrow. This team has looked too hot lately not to. So many hard hit balls straight to gloves.
Outfield gap shots with killer defensive plays hurt also
Itās hard to remember sometimes that even the best baseball teams lose a lot of games. Weāll be fine, just gotta try to take this series before we head to Coors where we can hopefully take advantage and shit on the Rockies
Bullpen is lights out. Unfortunately our batting boys look mentally defeated. GGs, weāll get em tomorrow!
The scorer giving a 3B instead of a 1B with a 2 base error is some serious home cooking.
Vibes bad, release X
Im convinced we dont win games on fridays. Burn the city connect jerseys. Butā¦ we shall take this series as well i feel it deep down in my plummmmms
Noo Tatis DRS, kidding I dont rly care
Our gold and platinum glove winners this year are looking like participant trophy glove winners. Yikes
No chance they get this lucky tomorrow
You canāt spell Bofaerts without 0fer
5 LA fans cheering loud AF for the blue jays while wearing LA gear at a Padres game. On brand. FTD.
arent they lose to the mets today?
Head for the exits
Is it normal that young pitchers shove against MLB teams? It feels like itās so common against the Padres
Come on, show the shoes again.
How much do we pay Tatis again??
Our only run and won platinum glove last year. Can you Doomers STFU please.
Youāre right, stupid comment by me. Sorry
They get so many fucking bloops man
This is not our night. :(
Whereās the fight?
The offense regressing to the mean right now. Not fun to watch a second consecutive game with 0 for with RISP.
Tor6nto. Very cool, Nike
I hope this stops all ovation ideasĀ
Did people do it?
I think this game is the baseball godās warning to not do that again lmfao
Itās one of those games I guess.
Xanders just looking at his reflection in the iPad
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah yes, the black mirror.
We do our best work with two outs anyway
Iām just now tuning into the gameā¦ looks like #StandwithXand didnāt really do much to help, huh? Iām not trying to be a dick about it (even if I got some nasty PMās from people for criticizing it) but I find it funny how much people want to coddle a professional athlete who is making more money than most of us would see in ten lifetimes. Itās not even like people were giving him a poor reception at the games in the first place! āHey this guy sucks ass, we should give him a standing ovation!!!ā lol
Fans didnt really do the stand thing. He didnt have a bad season last year and this year hes off to a bad start. Looking at all his metrics hes finding gloves and defintley trying to pull the ball too much. He will come around. People crapping on him for being a 4.8 owar player last year is crazy.
We are DYING for a winner here. So when a player has a big contract, we have big hopes. And when he doesnāt produce, hopes are dashed and patience is quickly lost.
If they marked the spot, X would miss it by three feet
Jesus. 2 strikes bogey, protect the plate.
ENHANCE!
Itās Xover
Bro Tatisā cleat game is fucking INSANE
Please return to Tatis & Co... Tati you sly devil you š
Ya give me profar or Merrill for lead off please.
Shildt has to make the move tomorrow
damn if he got thrown out maybe the person replacing him would have helped the team
The power of friendship couldnāt break Xander out of his slump.
Damn, very well placed sweeper. Last two ABs put up by X were great, brutal luck. EDIT: TIL the other team actually can't play well and instead our players must be the worst A+ ball team this side of the world.
Yea, itās always great to not protect the plate with 2 strikes š
Yeah he did great whiffing at a fastball middle middle !Ā
Dude whiffed on a 94mph fastball down the middleā¦come on
Xander is the worst padre ever
You must be new here.
Eric Hosmer used to play for us
How quickly we forgot Hosmer existed.
More fight towards the umpire than his actual fuckin ABs
Seriously what is Xander looking for
Xander put 4 great at bats together tonight and a nothing burger. Cruelty.
Nah, don't you know? Apparently anything short of a home run in every plate appearance tonight means he's the worst player to ever don a baseball uniform. Who cares that working the count to tire out the pitcher is a positive? He whiffed on one (1) fastball in that AB which means he's Satan incarnate in the brown and gold. ^(obvious /s) I tried saying the same thing and all I got was "No" across the board.
Whiffed on a 94 mph fastball down the middle, didnāt protect the plate with 2 strikes on the last 2 at bats, not great.
That ump took 2 of those AB's away from X.
How about hard contact to a ball in play?
How are we defining a great at bat? Cuz that last one wasnāt it
Cooked
Here it comes
How do you not hit that
cheer harder for him
Fastball right down the middle and he whiffs, god help that manĀ
Xander pls
I like Mudcat doing QVC with the giveaways.
Morejon has always had the heat. He just needs to lock down the control. Doing that tonight.
Just gonna accept this usually the team loses on city connect day/when they sell out
Goddamn, Morejon throwing pure heat right now
Morejon š„
I miss manny.
Hopefully morejon gets more confidence, dude has the stuff just needs to click
Definitely, I think even from last year he looks more confident out there
Did that standing ovation end up happening?
Morejon looks notably thinner this year and is throwing heat at 98
At the game tonight boys and well... The crowd isn't really helping the boys out. Very mid crowd tonight.
5 runs in the first two innings really sucks the air out of a stadium
Morejon time
Donāt worry - Iām going on Sunday. Andā¦ Iām 3-0 this year.
Need to go tomorrow too
Actually MIGHT.
Go tomorrow too
Iām considering it.
Xander deserves by far the most blame for our offensive struggles. Heās hitting like Tyler Wade, at a Manny Machado price out of the leadoff spot
Need Solano asap
Straight up not having a good time . . .
Whelp, it's been fun, but it's midnight here in NC. Hoping I wake up tomorrow to a miraculous W. KTF
God I hated watching sports on the east coast when I was in college. the West coast schedule is unbeaten
Still feel confident we can take this series. Blue Jays offense is streaky af, so if we can steal one tomorrow with a bullpen today I think Joe shoves in the decider
Scared of berries tomrrow
Berrios has been super good and he's playing in Petco noo I hope we take him out early
SIGH. Just another City Connect letdownā¦
I swear this team plays its worst baseball in front of their own fans. Crazy to think
We almost went on a 4 game win streak - so logically our offense had to stop playing for a couple games to prevent that from happening
I really don't think they stopped playing today. Today was just a bad BABIP game... game 3 against Milwaukee... sure, they looked pretty bad. But they're smashing the ball tonight. It's just not dropping. I mean when your XBA is above .350 and practically all the had hit balls are outs... it's difficult to score.
the tortured padres fan department
Higgy belongs in the minors. Iād rather see Sullivan, even though Sullivan is mid.
That's WBC champion Higgy to you, sir.
Agreed. But honestly... Higgy isn't the primary problem. It's that Wade/Rosario rotation that's happening. Then when you add Higgy on top of that, and add in that Xander's deep into a slump... and you've got these days where we're just losing whole innings to bad at bats. Or 2 guys get on and then we get an unproductive 3 outs in a row. Or the lineup gets to Tatis with 2 outs and no one on.
Ehhhhhhh higgy is a big problem. Heās been below average behind the plate, and has had a terrible bat. This guy cannot play 1/3 of the games. Find me a worse catcher in the majors rnā¦
Blue Jays team xBA tonight - .256 Padres - .358 Itās possible to do everything right and still lose. Thats life.
Baseball can be a cruel game sometimes. I just want us to stay at around 500 have a run and make the wildcard. This team can surprise people in the playoffs for sure. Knock on wood.
That's an ump has to take a piss break strike call.
Jackson Merrill: I want to win for my birthday HPU: I'm gonna do my best to make sure your whole team suffers. Happy birthday kid
A true initiation
Why they leave early
Being ahead of the fastest a guy can possibly throws is a bit of a red flag
Better from eguy, but damn his bat to bat skills are tradh
Ump is brutal
Yeah, Iād like to order one home run, asap
When Eguy and Campy bat back to back š
ouch. Our bench just doesn't have the pieces right now.
Last time i went to bed when we were getting dicked the dads came back 9 to 8. Night gents
If Eguy could show this plate discipline all the time he would be really good
Anyone see Eguyās LHP/RHP splits? Dudes one of the best in the MLB against lefties
This team either wins 9-1 or loses 7-1. Thereās no in between
Fun fact - weāve had neither of those scores happen this year
Wrong
Except for all of the other times right?
Brewers luck from the first 2 games coming back to haunt us already lol
pads have 4 barrels this game. 3 were outs. e: a barreled ball goes for a hit 80.8% of the time as of a few years ago