What happens if Machado and Soto get hot at the same time? If Hader is Hader? If a $233-million payroll finds its groove?
Fellas, the team’s investors are saying, bring home the World Series trophy.
If the 2022 Padres max out as the 2010 team did, they won’t be pushovers for anyone. Based on the premise this team is much more talented that’s the ticket, and it’s grounded in this reality: Several Padres players have shown they can be good or very good at big-league baseball. And, satisfying what baseball’s quants call “meaningful sample sizes,” several have done it for long stretches, at some point, in their careers.
The Padres will need Josh Bell to live up to his career adjusted OPS, which defines him as 21 percent above league average. If Brandon Drury and Jake Cronenworth match their recent seasons of adjusted OPS, the lineup’s plausible number of capable hitters grows to five, headed by Machado and Soto. Josh Hader doesn’t need to jump into a phone booth for a costume change, either. In 11 playoff games, he’s assembled a 1.88 ERA and white-hot rates in WHIP and strikeouts per nine innings .
Following the 22-yea-old’s lead, the rotation delivered value well beyond its collective income. For the first time in team history, five pitchers — Latos, Clayton Richard, Jon Garland, Wade LeBlanc and Kevin Correia — made at least 25 starts. Swingman Tim Stauffer, delivering the best of his 10 big-league seasons, while providing examples of why he went fourth in the 2003 draft, recorded a 1.85 ERA.
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