Your masterpiece.

AJ’s extension is George RR Martin’s Winds of Winter.

Manny and Xander are a year further removed from their prime, so the team has to keep adding offensive talent just to stay even tbh.

Preller is a fucking donkey and people think he’s some genius. Hilarious.

Fair point.

Be careful what you wish for. Mamdani and AOC led party has no shot at winning either houses or a single swing state nationally.

The window is closed. It’s now just a slow, steady decline til we find ourselves watching Manny chase 3K hits / 500 HR for a 74 win team from 2028-2032.

It’s adorable we’d even consider the idea of the Padres making it to game 7 of the World Series. 2022 and 2024 were their shots, soon we’ll be a middling tribute band playing in an expensive retirement community.

Impossible to predict Preller, but they need to get super creative given payroll constraints. Maybe Morejon and Crone packaged together gets you a controllable mid rotation SP?

Personally, trading him at his all time high in value when he only has 1 year before FA? That’s my jam.

Morgan low-key could be a good candidate.

Morejon in last year of deal, trading him makes sense (but keep him b/c he’s an AJ guy). I think Morgan gets converted to SP, they trade Estrada and Crone, and Wagner starts at 2B.

Predictions: Darvish retires and agrees to get paid in deferrals, and they have to trade from MLB roster to build a rotation: Estrada and Crone for sure, and maybe Morejon.