00:00The Padres goes from leaders in the clubhouse to eight games back in the NL West.
00:05Yeah, they still sit above 533 and 30, but my goodness, the past couple of weeks haven't
00:09been good, which includes two and eight over their last 10.
00:12There's too much talent on that team to be under 500, which they're not, but obviously
00:17playing under 500 ball the past couple of weeks, Craig.
00:20Yeah, and I think it's the conversation in case you missed it earlier in the show that
00:24I would focus on.
00:25But I mean, the team that we'll talk about next, Arizona, I do think is better than San
00:29Diego, but I think it's just kind of more of, okay, at this point in the season, it's not
00:35a big deal.
00:35They're going to be a 500 team, maybe a little bit better, a little bit worse.
00:38But what is the difference, Donnie?
00:40The difference is that the Padres have been as aggressive at deadlines and off seasons
00:45as any team has maybe ever in the last 10, 15 years.
00:49I just don't know that that's still going to be the case because of the new ownership.
00:53And that's not a better or worse scenario, Donnie, but it feels like right now, what's
00:59going to happen to me, I'm going to guess with the Padres is there's going to be a lot
01:03of evaluation going on right now, Donnie, right?
01:05Like there's going to be people that own the club that are going to say like, all right,
01:09show me the landscape.
01:10Who do we have?
01:11Not just players, executives.
01:13Let's go through it one by one.
01:15And usually those key decisions are not made.
01:18And so now all of a sudden, Donnie, it's like, if you are the owner of the Padres, you don't
01:22know AJ Preller, right?
01:24You don't know him.
01:24You just met him maybe a few months ago.
01:26And AJ Preller goes to you and says, let's use Schuble as an example, even though it won't
01:30be him.
01:30We have Tariq Schuble.
01:32Here's $12 million.
01:35Here, you got to pay for this.
01:37Like, do you just blindly accept?
01:39I think Seidler and that family probably did because that's what they did with AJ Preller.
01:43So just the fact that I can throw that out you for that question tells you that I'm just
01:48not sure.
01:49I can't answer the question as to what the Padres are going to be in the next few months.
01:53I don't know.
01:54Yeah, I finally picked up a dub yesterday there going up against those New York Mets, but also
01:58some of the anomalies there that we talk about.
02:00Manny Machado hitting 172, but more importantly, Fernando Tatis, his average is decent around
02:04a 275, finally hit his first home run in the seed.
02:07Like a 265 played appearances for Tatis.
02:10One home run, which is pretty incredible.
02:12But Craig, as we know, sometimes you look to make those moves in the offseason.
02:15Now, it might not be getting great players, but you expect those players to contribute.
02:19You take a look at their pitching staff.
02:20Griffin Canning is a free agent, 6.34 ERA.
02:24Then you take a look at free agency here with Walker Bueller.
02:26Again, aging guy, but 4.53.
02:28Lucas Giolito, just to try to help you out, 4.86.
02:31Not a lot of things that the Padres have tried have worked there, but they still are above
02:35500, still in the wildcard mix, waiting for some of those superstar players to step up.
02:39Now, the Diamondbacks, always interesting to me.
02:42Talented roster.
02:42Yes, we'll see what we get, but always a tough division to compete with when you're
02:46with the likes of a high payroll, let's just say of the Giants or the Padres and or the
02:49Los Angeles Dodgers.
02:50But the Diamondbacks, again, still above 500, Craig, but seeming like the Padres struggling
02:55as of late, 3-7 in their last 10 games here, coming into it.
02:59Eight and a half games back over those Dodgers.
03:03So Washington had a hard time scoring runs against Miami and couldn't pitch at all against Miami.
03:09And then they face off with Arizona, and then they go back to being the number one offense
03:13in baseball and pitch out of their minds.
03:15And they gave up two runs total Friday, Saturday.
03:17This is why baseball is impossible to predict on a daily basis.
03:21I'm not really worried.
03:22I think Arizona is going to have their ups and downs.
03:24They're not a great team.
03:25They're not a bad team.
03:27They're about a 500 team, maybe a little bit better.
03:29Donnie, we're going to get to September.
03:31They're going to be four games out, three games out of the wild card.
03:34And then whoever gets hot gets in.
03:35They're a very well-run organization.
03:37I have confidence that they're going to stay in this thing.
03:39And so for me, at the end, I could see them actually flipping on the Padres.
03:43I could see that happening.
03:44It's just, I think, a little bit of a slump this week, nothing more.
