Good Morning San Diego: Padres Franchise (MLB the Show 17)

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Introduction
After a disappointing end to my previous Franchise mode with the Reds I have decided to stay in the National League again for another Franchise. I feel like with doing a National League team you are forced to create a better overall roster including your bench so you can use the double switch as well. So I’ve decided to go with the San Diego Padres a team that has still not one a World Series since their creation in 1969 and I’m looking to change that as soon as possible. Even though the Padres have had greats like Tony Gwynn, Dave Winfield and Trevor Hoffman they were unable to win a World Series with the Padres. This San Diego team has some talent that can escalate this team to a power house in the MLB. Talent like Manuel Margot, Hunter Renfroe, Will Myers and Anderson Espinoza. I am hoping veterans like Erick Aybar, Jared Weaver and Clayton Richard can lead this team with their veteran presence. And I this will allow Margot, Renfroe, Myers and Espinoza to lead this team and guide others to make this team one of the best team in baseball in the future. My plan this season is to develop some of the young Padres prospects and not to rush any of them to the MLB and hinder their development. This rebuilding process is most likely going to take a few years as we develop our youngsters and build through the MLB draft system. The Padres this season are going to have a high pick and with this year’s draft going to look to snag some young pitchers to lead our rotation and bullpen in the future. The squad we have this season I’m looking to at least post a 61-101 record.

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2017 Season Preview
I’m going to be doing a new write up every month of a different top prospect in our organization and every season going to do a season preview and roster breakdown. I’ll go through the pitchers, catchers, infielders and outfielders and breakdown what we have and what I want to improve on in the future. Also, I will be doing predictions of the upcoming season and who I think will be our MVP, Sleeper and Key Add.
Season Predictions
Team MVP

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Will Myers- easily the best Padre on the roster Myers looks to have another good season after being the center piece of the team last season. My predictions for Myers this season is to hit .278 with 31 HR’s and 93 RBI’s and make the All-Star game

Team Sleeper

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Carter Capps- even though Capps will start the season on the DL Capps will return around May time if he continues to recover properly. Capps even though only pitching 30 game, in Miami, posted a 1.16 with 58 K’s. If Capps can return this season and post the same stats he may be able to help this weak pitching staff and if not he can be shipped off at the deadline

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Team Key Add

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Jared Weaver- A weak rotation that includes mostly older guys but Jared Weaver may look to reinvent himself in San Diego and possibly be the team best add of the Off-season. My predictions for Weaver this season is that he’ll go 12-9, with a 3.76 ERA with 87 strikeouts.

Opening Day 40-Man Roster

2017 San Diego Padres Opening Day Roster
#	PITCHERS	POS	B/T	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
40	Ryan Butcher	P	L/L	30	6'4	258
38	Trevor Cahill	P	R/R	29	6'4	240
46	Jhoulys Chacin	P	R/R	29	6'3	215
55	Jarred Cosart	P	R/R	26	6'3	206
52	Brad Hand	P	L/L	27	6'3	228
57	Zach Lee	P	R/R	25	6'4	227
37	Brandon Mauer	P	R/R	26	6'5	230
61	Luis Perdomo	P	R/R	23	6'2	185
3	Clayton Richard	P	L/L	33	6'5	240
63	*Jose Ruiz	P	R/R	22	6'1	190
34	Criag Stammen	P	R/R	32	6'4	230
59	Kevin Quackenbush	P	R/R	28	6'4	235
27	Jared Weaver	P	R/R	33	6'7	210
53	*Christian Friedrich	P	R/L	29	6'4	224	-
77	*Buddy Baumann	P	L/L	29	5'11	198
56	*Carter Capps (DL)	P	R/R	26	6'5	230
43	*Miguel Diaz	P	R/R	22	6'1	175
47	*Jake Esch	P	R/R	27	6'3	205
84	*Tyrell Jenkins	P	R/R	24	6'4	180
62	*Walter Lockett	P	R/R	22	6'5	225
#	CATCHERS	POS	B/T	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
18	Austin Hedges	C	R/R	24	6'1	206
44	Hector Sanchez	C	S/R	27	6'0	235
21	*Luis Torrens	C	R/R	20	6'0	175
12	*Christain Bethancourt	C/P	R/R	25	6'2	213
#	INFIELDERS	POS	B/T	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
2	Luis Sardinas	SS	S/R	23	6'1	180
8	Erick Aybar	SS	S/R	32	5;10	195
70	Javi Guerra	SS	L/R	21	5'11	155
4	Wil Myers	1B	R/R	25	6'3	205
11	Ryan Schimpf	3B	L/R	28	5'9	180
26	Yangervis Solarte	IF	S/R	29	5'11	205
15	Cory Spangenberg	2B	L/R	26	6'0	195
20	*Carlos Asuaje	2B	L/R	25	5'9	158
70	*Javier Guerra	SS	L/R	21	5'11	155
13	*Jose Rondon	SS	R/R	23	6'1	195
#	OUTFIELDERS	POS	B/T	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
32	Jabari Blash	RF	R/R	27	6'5	235
16	Travis Janowski	LF	L/R	25	6'2	185
7	Manuel Margot	CF	R/R	22	5'11	180
10	Hunter Renfroe	RF	R/R	25	6'1	220
71	*Frenchu Cordero	LF	L/R	20	6'3	175
17	Allen Cordoba	CF	R/R	21	6'1	175

*indicates 40-Man Roster

San Diego Padres Injury Report
Pos	Player	Injury Note
P	Carter Capps	Recovering from March 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: Late May
LF	Alex Dickerson	Bulging disk in lower back, Due back: Early June
P	Robbie Erlin	Recovering from May 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: Late June
P	Collin Rea	Recovering from May 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: 2018

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Opening Day 2017

The San Diego Padres have announced that Jared Weaver will start opening day and his 8th in his career. Though it will be his first in San Diego after leaving his hometown and hometown team Los Angeles Angels. Weaver on Opening Day holds a record of 3-3 and this year will be facing off against the Dodgers and their Ace Clayton Kershaw who holds a record of 4-0 and has faced the Padres in 3 of 6 of his opening day matchups. The Padres will be on the road for Opening Day at Dodger Stadium and will be wearing the Alternate Road jerseys while the Dodgers wear the classic whites. A rainy day in LA while the Dodger host the Padres with the lineups as follow Padres starting lineup: CF Margot, 2B Solarte, 1B Myers, RF Renfroe, LF Jankowski, SS Aybar, 3B Schimpf, C Austin Hedges, P Weaver. While the Dodgers lineup is: RF Puig, 3B Turner, SS Seager, LF Gutierrez, 1B Gonzalez, CF Pederson, C Grandal, 2B Forsythe, P Kershaw. The final score would be 1-6 to the Dodgers and Weaver would struggle this game giving up 4 ER with 3 homeruns given up while Kershaw would dominate with 11 k’s and one ER. The Dodgers power would show with 5 homeruns with 1 from Grandal, 1 from Gutierrez and 3 from Joc Pederosn. While Ryan Schimpf would get the only RBI for the Padres and Quackenbush would pitch 2 innings and give up 2 ER, Cosart and Butcher would finish the last two innings with no runs given up. As Kershaw would get the win and Weaver the lose

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Padres GM A.J. Preller in an interview stated that he will be shopping his team this season and looking to make some moves. Though it’s also to be noted that he is being watched by the team owners as they may be about done with all the moves he’s made during his tenure especially when he acquired Matt Kemp, Craig Kimbrel, Justin Upton and signed James Shields and the Padres still struggled. Preller stated that he has a few players on his shortlist of players he is wanting to trade for but stated that he will keep those undisclosed until he makes a deal so nothing among the team changes.

Manager Andy Green stated:
“I’ve heard nothing about any trades or any deals that have been made. I’m here to win games for this team and nothing else. If we do make any deals then our team will adapt and continue to do our best to win games.”




Trade Rumors:

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Pitcher- Sonny Gray
The Padres are looking to get a good Ace to the team and the A's have been showing interest in selling him off.


Infielder- Wilmer Flores
The Padres have been looking for a utility man and Flores is able to play all the infields position and can even shift to RF/LF. This would allow the Padres to move around more players and get more at bats for some others.


Outfielder- Marcel Ozuna
Ozuna who has had a cold start to the season may be a good fight for the Padres. As his power may be something the team could use in the middle of the lineup.

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April 2017 Review
In the month of April the Padres have struggled through but it’s no surprise as this team wasn’t expected to contend or push for the postseason. They finish April with a record of 8-19 and stand in last place of the National League East and are 10 games back of the first place Arizona Diamondbacks.

Padres Player of the Month: CF Manuel Margot
In the first month of the season and in his rookie season Manuel Margot is awarded as the Padres player of the month for April. He’s batting .278 in the leadoff spot with 4 homeruns and 8 runs batted in. He has also snagged 2 stolen bases but has been caught 3 times. He’s also has done well in CF playing every day so far this season getting 39 putouts with 0 errors and being very reliable in the outfield in 193 innings in Center.

Spoiler

P- Anderson Espinoza
In Double-A to start the season Anderson has posted a record of 2-0, with 23 k's, a 3.10 ERA in 29 innings pitched


C- Stephen McGee
As the back the right hitting platoon had an average of .355 with 3 HR's and 7 RBI's.


P- Gabriel Encinas
Even though currently on the DL Gabriel has posted a 0.93 ERA, 19.1 IP's and 20 k's in Triple-A El Paso.

Pos	Player	Injury Note
P	Carter Capps (MLB)	Recovering from March 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: Late May
LF	Alex Dickerson (MLB)	Bulging disk in lower back, Due back: Early June
P	Robbie Erlin (MLB)	Recovering from May 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: Late June
P	Collin Rea (MLB)	Recovering from May 2016 Tommy John surgery, Due back: 2018
P	Zach Lee (MLB)	Dislocated shoulder April 2017, Due back: 1-2 months
P	Gabriel Encinas (AAA)	Torn Labrum. Due back: Early 2018

Padres Transactions
4/18 P Zach Lee added to 60-Day DL with dislocated shoulder
4/19 P Miguel Diaz recalled from Triple-A El Paso



Team Leaders
Hitting

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Games: Wil Myers- 27
At Bats: Wil Myers- 104
Runs: Manuel Margot- 12
Hits: Wil Myers- 27
Home runs: Wil Myers- 5
Runs Batted In: Wil Myers- 13
Stolen Bases: Travis Jankowski, Wil Myers- 4
Average: Jabari Blash- .286
On Base Percentage: Wil Myers- .333
Slugging: Manuel Margot- .467
Walks: Travis Jankowski, Wil Myers- 12
Doubles: Cory Spangenberg- 6
Triples: Manuel Margot, Wil Myers, Ryan Schimpf- 1

Pitching

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Games: Kevin Quackenbush- 18
Games started: Jared Weaver, Clayton Richard- 6
Wins: Ryan Butcher- 2
Loses: Clayton Richard, Trevor Cahill- 4
Holds: Craig Stammen- 4
Saves: Brandon Maurer- 8
Innings Pitched: Jared Weaver- 33.0
Strikeouts: Jhoulys Chacin- 28
Earned Run Average: Craig Stammen (7 games)- 0.00

Around the League
League Trades:
4/18 Indians acquire RF Mitch Haniger from Mariners for SS Erick Gonzalez
4/25 Twins acquire P Brett Anderson from Cubs for CF Zach Granite
2/27 Royals acquire IF Brock Holt from Red Sox for P Jason Hammel

April Awards:
American League
-Pitcher: Garret Richards (LAA): 4-0, 37 k’s with 2.61 ERA
-Players: Miguel Cabrea (DET): 94 AB, .479 AVG, 12 HR’s and 28 RBI’s
-Rookie: Yelieski Gurriel (HOU): 89 AB, .326 AVG, 6 HR’s and 17 RBI’s
National League
-Pitcher: Taijuan Walker (ARI): 5-1, 30 k’s with 0.69 ERA
-Players: Anthony Rizzo (CHC): 77 AB, .390 AVG, 7 HR’s and 20 RBI’s
-Rookie: TJ Rivera (NYM): 26 AB, .346 AVG, 1 HR and 2 RBI’s

[bubbie623]

What settings are you using this year?

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Quote: Originally Posted by bubbie623

What settings are you using this year?

The Mike Lowe slider with a change in trade frequency during trade deadline. As well as All-star hitting and pitching

[SoxSoxSox]

I'm also giving the Padres a run. Wanted to take the worst NL team with no titles.


I fully expect to have to resort to calling up Anderson Espinoza by the end of June. Rotation might be brutal.



I do like the up the middle of Solarte at second and Margot in center.


Actually going to shift Solarte to third and have Spangenberg play second against LHP. Schimpf is bad vs lefties per his ratings so he'll sit on those days, at least to start the game.