Is San Diego Keeping the Core Together?

The Padres are such outliers in their range of media market or however you want to find that either they are just off base and have no idea what they're doing or everyone else is, I mean, there's almost no middle ground. They've got so many players locked up now that I think if you look at the roster resource payroll breakdown for 2026 Only the Yankees have more committed for that year. Even the Braves with their multitude of extensions don't have as much money committed in that year. It's really something And there are going to be stretches of it where I imagine we're going to see some potentially bad baseball in San Diego on the back ends of these, but who cares