1 DAY AGO - Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports The league has stated they will not make a counter-offer. In a report on The Athletic by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich, the MLB has rejected a proposal from the Player’s Association on a 114-game season while simultaneously stating they will not propose a counter offer. At his moment, both sides seem to be in a deadlock. “The league, according to sources, also informed the MLBPA it has started talks with its owners about playing a shorter season without fans, and that it is ready to discuss additional ideas with the union on that subject,” says Rosenthal and Drellich. “The impasse over player pay, however, shows no signs of abating.” After the players agreed to take a pro-rated pay cut in March, they are staying put and refusing to negotiate against themselves to take a second pay cut. The MLB is supposedly entertaining the idea for a shorter, 50-game season but at the moment it’s no more than heresay. “Though the language in the March agreement Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports On this date in San Diego Padres history, the Friars were unfortunately on the wrong side of history in a high-scoring affair with the Seattle Mariners at Petco Park. After the first five innings, the Padres found themselves with an extremely comfortable 13-2 lead. This is when the chaos ensued. Over the course of the next two innings, the Marlins scored 14 runs by the end of the seventh and all of a sudden the Padres’ lead was turned on it’s head. The score of 16-13 would hold for the final two innings and the Marlins completed the biggest comeback in franchise history. The comeback was led by third baseman Kyle Seager who went 3-for-5 at the plate with five RBIs, right fielder Nelson Cruz who went 2-for-5 with a home run, and first baseman Dae-ho Lee that went a perfect 3-for-3 with 4 RBIs and his own home run. The Padres offense was led by center fielder Jon Jay who went 5-for-6 with a pair of RBIs. He was joined by first baseman Wil Myers, left Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Tatis, Paddack, Gore all included in Friars’ group of budding stars. Bleacher Report’s Zachary D. Rymer posted an interesting article on Monday that took all the top young talent (25 years or younger) among the 30 MLB teams and ranked them from first to worst. For the article, here are the criteria that each team’s players were graded upon: Superstars (10 Points): “For the most part, these are players who already have at least one five-WAR season under their belts, according to either Baseball Reference or FanGraphs. We also squeezed in a certain Washington Nationals star who ZiPS has been projecting as a five-WAR player for 2020.” Lesser Stars (5 Points): “These are players who have managed at least a two-WAR season or who are projected for one in 2020 by ZiPS or Steamer. However, any prospects who made the cut were instead scored according to the next stipulation.” Key Prospects (1-3 Points): “Prospects got one point for each appearance in the Collapse

6 DAYS AGO - Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports Friars originally drafted 3B Cory Spangenberg. Going along with the trend of publications re-doing past drafts with the knowledge we know now about their careers and how they panned out, ESPN writers David Schoenfield and Kiley McDaniel are making a combined effort to re-draft the top-10 players in every draft over the last 10 years (2010-2019). Today, I’m highlighting the 2011 draft where the Padres drafted third baseman Cory Spangenberg with the 10th-overall pick. Instead, the Friars snag pitcher Kyle Hendricks who was originally selected in the eighth round by the Texas Rangers. Spangenberg spent five years with Padres from 2014-2018 where he his .258 with 298 hits, 27 home runs, and 109 RBIs. He was released in November of ‘18 when he refused a minor league assignment. He was then signed by the Milwaukee Brewers in January of 2019. Here’s what Schoenfield and McDaniel had to say about Hendricks moving into the top-10 following what we know Collapse

7 DAYS AGO - University of Minnesota Athletics The Golden Gopher is one of two prominent pairings for the Friars in this year’s draft. Leading up to the 2020 MLB draft, there’s been about a half dozen first-round mock drafts released by publications like MLB.com, The Athletic, and ESPN. While mock drafts are usually intriguing due to the variance between all the different authors writing them, the Padres slot at #8 overall hasn’t changed much from the first mock released just a couple weeks ago. As things stand, it seems like media members are 99% sure that the Padres will be selecting either high-school player Robert Hassell - who’s set to play at Vanderbilt - or pitcher Mac Meyer from the University of Minnesota. In MLB.com’s Jim Callis’ first edition of a 2020 mock, he sticks to the status quo by pairing Minnesota’s Meyer with the Friars with their first-round pick. Here’s what he had to say about the pick: “There’s conflicting buzz around the Padres, who could have the choice of some of Collapse

5/27/2020 - Padres players would take pay cuts ranging from 10 to 63 percent under proposal submitted by MLB owners Collapse

5/27/2020 - USA Today high school sports McDaniel keeps Padres consistent with high-school bat in second mock draft. The shortened 2020 MLB draft is just two weeks away and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel just released the second edition of his 2020 first-round mock draft. Unfortunately, McDaniel didn’t change a whole lot when it came to the Padres who once again select Robert Hassell, a Vanderbilt commit and current centerfielder for Independence High School in Tennessee. Here’s what McDaniel had to say about the selection: “Hassell has some very strong believers in the industry (including me, as you’ll see when my updated rankings come out in a week or so). San Diego is the first spot where he’s in play, and he’s really in play here, so it would likely be a bit below slot, helping set up a potential overpay at the Padres’ next pick. All of the top prep outfielders (Veen, Hassell, Austin Hendrick) have been mentioned here, in that order.” 2020 OF Robert Hassell (@robert_hassell3) delivers the home Collapse