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The San Diego Padres have been one of the biggest disappointments of the 2023 MLB season. Expected to cruise to a playoff spot, and potentially unseat the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West, the Friars have instead underperformed…

SAN DIEGO — The sellout crowd came to cheer Juan Soto in his first game with the San Diego Padres. It went bonkers when Brandon Drury hit a grand slam on the first pitch he saw with his new team. Feeding off…

Comment on this storyCommentSAN DIEGO — Juan Soto sat in a rolling chair with a San Diego Padres logo on it and held up his leg, high enough that Fernando Tatis Jr. could see his red-and-white cleats from his chair a few lockers…

Comment on this storyCommentThe Washington Nationals did what once seemed unthinkable Tuesday: They traded Juan Soto.Why? That will be debated for weeks and months — let alone years and decades in a city that saw Soto, still only 23,…

Speculation continues to swirl over which team (if any) could pry Juan Soto away from the Nationals before the trade deadline, or even which clubs are the top contenders as we approach August 2.  According to Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman…

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SAN DIEGO -- C.J. Abrams is back, and the Padres are hopeful the presence of their top prospect could mitigate the effects of losing superstar third baseman Manny Machado to injury. The Padres promoted Abrams ahead of Monday's series…

Jorge Alfaro knows what a home run feels like. The Padres catcher, all 6’3” and 230 pounds of him, has hit 109 homers as a professional. On Saturday afternoon he thought he had another one. Alfaro ripped a shot at 115.2…

PHOENIX -- As opening weekends go, the Padres couldn’t have asked for a whole lot more. (OK, sure, they could’ve asked for a clean ninth inning on Thursday night -- in which case, they’d be off to a perfect start.) But all in all, it was…

Las leyes que se promulgan en todo el país en contra de la sexualización de la infancia, y que otorgan a los padres el derecho de educar a sus hijos pequeños sobre sexo e identidad de género en lugar de los maestros en la…