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Living on a Prayer: The Padres of San Diego

Posted on April 22, 2016 at 02:20 PM.

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Starting up a Padres franchise which I will be running for a couple of seasons. I have some high hopes for the Padres as their farm team has some good prospects and the current MLB roster isn't totally devoid of talent!

Will probably be running about 2 games a week. The next post coming up will be the Minor League breakdown of the top 3 prospects in the system. I'll update the minor league team's progress once every five games. For the franchise I'm using TNK/Psychobulk's slider set (latest version but altered to set trading slider at 2 for April with gradual increases as the season progresses). Also using the OSFM 40 man rosters.

After every week I'll round up the trades and acquisitions that happen around the league and give a breakdown of why the teams traded as well as any injuries that occur.

Before the season kicks off with the Dodgers/Padres opening matchup here is a quick run down of the depth chart for the season as it kicks off:

San Diego Padres Depth Chart - 2016

Catcher
Derek Norris
Christian Bethancourt

First Base
Wil Myers
Brett Wallace

Second Base
Corey Spangenberg
Adam Rosales

Third Base
Yangervis Solarte

Shortstop
Alexi Ramirez
Alexi Amarista

Left Field
Melvin Upton Jr.
Alex Dickerson

Center Field
Jon Jay

Right Field
Matt Kemp

Starting Pitcher
James Shields
Tyson Ross
Andrew Cashner
Drew Pomeranz
Robbie Erlin

Relief Pitcher
Kevin Quackenbush
Matt Thornton
Brandon Maurer
Carlos Villanueva
Brad Hand

Closer
Fernando Rodney

Designated Hitter
Brett Wallace

Decided to make some hard choices to begin the year by leaving all my high prospects in the outfield in the minors. Jabari Blash, Hunter Renfroe, Travis Jankowski, and Manuel Margot are all in AAA or AA to begin the year. I imagine at some point this year I'll trade Jankowski as I'm looking to upgrade the starting pitching and net a few infield prospects or controllable veterans at 3rd and SS.

Starting Pitching is looking good if everyone stays healthy and beasts out with the Padres front office hoping that Shields lives up to the "Big Game James" moniker. Also on the way out this year most likely will be Andrew Cashner as he is a free agent before the season is over and Tyson Ross is arbitration eligible for 2017.

Dodgers and Padres is next and I hope you guys join together with the Padres in their search for an elusive World Series in the 2000's !