These Rumors Have MASSIVE Implications For The Padres...

These rumors change everything for the Padres as this certain team is looking for help and the Padres have players that fix that problem for them. Who am I talking about? What's going to happen with the Padres? Let's talk about it. Oh, excuse me. Hi, welcome back to another episode of Padres Digest with your host, Andrew. Today we have more off-season trade rumor stuff, something that I saw a couple of days ago, and I thought we can make a nice little video on it. uh and as always please subscribe as always follow us on X Instagram Facebook Padres digest but today we're talking catching and we're talking the Yankees so what am i yapping about well Yankees want backup catcher for their catcher Austin Wells this is a report from Joel Sherman so they list multiple catchers you know Carson Kelly Austin Hedges Carantini Aaron Sanchez but then you got Freddie Fermin and Luis Campusano both of course Padres catchers so Austin Wells last year wasn't horrible definitely wasn't great uh it was pretty bad it was pretty bad i guess i was trying to be nice but no uh so he definitely needs some help right he is a lefty bat uh and on the prowl for a proven right-handed hitting batter catcher to pay pair with Wells and we technically have one uh but well we had technically have two but only really one fits that but we could still get rid of him because he's not horrible horrible he just wasn't playing great last year right so Padres have three catchers for two spots who are we talking about you should probably know by now but of course we have uh Freddie Fermin Luis Campusano and of course newly called up Ethan Salas and there's no reason to keep three catchers competing for the same future role i mean there are some benefits to it but i think it was just a little unnecessary having three catchers uh and of course Ethan Salas his left-handed bat is a huge deal now the timeline you all saw of course we got Freddy Fermin for Ryan Bergert Stephen Kollek Compusano on a one-year deal uh returning arbitration Fermin avoids arbitration and Salas gets called up and everything changes because that guy is going to be insane and then Sherman names both Compusano and Fermin as possible targets so what's the contracts and payroll looking like for that so Compusano will be under control through 2028 so two more years yeah uh Fermin three more years through 2029 uh and then Salas is still on his rookie deal i'm pretty sure so he's going to be here for a long time now right and our payroll is already at 277.8 million uh by Spotrac predictions for next year so over the tax line by 30.8 million uh and that's of course before the whole lockout things happens but yeah everyone agrees easy decision Fermin must go he's not a good hitter Salas and Campy lefty and righty will be next year's catcher uh but let's look at the stats right so what do the stats say so Padres catchers post very different 2026 numbers of course let's look at Campusano's numbers .265 average not bad OBP on base percentage top nine percent of catchers OPS top 20 percent of catchers uh so you know he had a solid season nothing crazy but a 1.7 WAR not bad right and then Federman means kind of the opposite uh .203 average so he did pick it up at the end there but a .589 OPS below one WAR but not horrendous just not great uh but then you got you know your boy Ethan Salas who didn't play that much obviously but 16 games respectable and he's only going to get better right so you can compare all those numbers with each other obviously Salas is going to be the best out of this list but Campusano right now is statistically better than both of them for right now of course now it's crazy that catching might be a bona fide strength for the Padres uh and that's a problem I love having right and of course Ethan Salas he's a very talented player and then probably too is his catcher uh character and maturity I can read uh so yeah we have two we have three catchers we can get rid of one of them but who do the Yankees have to get rid of uh who can we get from the Yankees well you got Warren Dominguez he's they're all seen as possible Yankees chips so will Warren we've talked about last year with the whole Mason Miller trade rumor stuff but he's a starting pitcher and you have Jason Dominguez, Ben Hess, another starting pitching prospect and we do need some starting pitching so maybe this is interesting right so Warren last year his stats weren't great weren't horrible 3.92 ERA 158 strikeouts though which is top 15 percent uh 11 wins six losses 32 games pitched so a 1.1 WAR respectable right and he's still relatively young so it's not like he's like 40 years old and you know washed like he's a guy who definitely has some stuff left to give Jason Dominguez has had good times bad times okay times what kind of player are we gonna get i don't know but he does have a negative WAR uh but he is definitely someone the Yankees kind of want to get rid of and maybe he would fit nicely because we do need a left fielder uh so maybe Jason Dominguez could really fill that hole for us maybe maybe right i wouldn't hate it i wouldn't love it but Freddie Fermin for Dominguez doesn't seem horrible and then Ben Hess uh this is his baseball reference since he's still a minor leaguer but 4.45 ERA and 16 starts he had some fine stats right not great not horrible but he's still young right he's on the 60 day IL in the minors but he's the number 89 prospect overall and the Yankees number five but maybe he'll drop thanks to those stats i don't know but uh Dominguez could be the centerpiece of a blockbuster deal uh i don't know if i'd call Freddie Fan mean and Dominguez a blockbuster deal but you know it's a possibility right then you have your unlikely chips of course Ryan McMahon they do want a salary dump uh and like he could find a place on our team but i just don't know if i really want to pay 15.4 for Ryan McMahon and then you got Volpe who's been bad been good been okay probably not going to get moved same thing with George Lombard uh but there are possibilities probably not Lombard though uh the word throughout is that Brian Cashman's not going to part with his top prospect George Lombard which i guess makes sense right and then McMahon is a net negative at the plate and on defense so definitely not someone really want to get on our salary so Padres catching plans heads into the off season this is how Austin Wells looks versus our catchers so they could absolutely use someone like Fetamine and Camposano they need a right-handed bat either or I would obviously want to trade Fetamine more but I don't know if he'll get as good as return as Camposano would but honestly I like Dominguez and Fetamine straight up two struggling players to help fix our needs it doesn't seem like a bad trade maybe it's a little lopsided for us honestly but it would fix both of our problems so i don't hate it right uh and i do they do have other options right i mean there's Ryan Jeffers who's gonna be a free agent Carson Kelly uh does have a mutual option with the Cubs but could be a free agent Keibert Ruiz uh Hunter Goodman if they want to splash Pedro Pages from the Cardinals so they do have other options but you know what's the right return if you're going to give up Campusano and or Fermín do you want a major leaguer pitcher like a major league pitching player like Warren or do you want a top pitching prospect like Hess or would you rather just keep Campusano or keep Fermín or keep both and then have three catchers you guys let me know what you think but like I said I like I think I like Dominguez for Fermín straight up but you guys give me your thoughts in the comments down below uh and as always thank you for watching please subscribe follow us on X Instagram Facebook Padres Digest thank you to our channel members and join members just for awesome bonus features and have a fantastic wonderful rest of your day stream later today so be there or be square goodbye