The Padres Make a Major Statement...

This has serious implications for the Padres, both in the short and long term. I want to talk about something that A.J. Preller came out and said and then tie that into the bigger picture of the changing franchise under the new ownership. Big things to talk about. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Padres Digest, the show where Andrew and I are bringing you guys daily content all off-season long, even if that means having to grit our teeth and watch this dang World Series, knowing that could have beat them Brewers, should have beat them Brewers, would have beat them Brewers that one ball and right okay i'm sorry i'm sorry zen positive pete all off season my apologies like subscribe comment share follow the big headlines that i saw of AJ Preller making a clear and concise statement about Fernando Tatis and Manny Machado that being that he was talking to reporters and saying no they are not getting traded they are the founders of our team machado and tatis are padres for life and every change for the organ everything changed for the organization when we signed machado and when tatis came to the big leagues we never think about trading them i um okay great fantastic lot to unpack from this my first thing would be i don't believe that they've never thought about trading them maybe just even like one point one one one one one percent sure okay but uh great if the thought is that they're never going to trade them i'm here for it i am here for it in a big kind of way because these guys are and i don't want to pretend that they are 100 percent universally liked by every one of you in the comment section i think significantly more of you guys like uh fernando tatis jr than manny machado but i they divide us they were uh tatis trade last year that discussion was a lot around when he wasn't hitting should we send him to somewhere where he can just get a fresh start we can get a bunch of draft picks then the team got hot and like we are a really good team when both of them are hitting that cubs series was us seeing exactly what this thing can be in the playoffs and so if the core is look these guys are the backbone of this generation and they are going to be Padres for life i dig it i think it is interesting though to have that overlap with new ownership because there is to me always no matter how good a group of dudes is um personality or talent wise or you know or how much they're loved by a city there's always some element of them being the other guys you know the other ownerships team and Kwanzaa and Jose Feliciano are you know coming in at a right time where they get to sample an amazing like they obviously were like here and in like they didn't just blindly buy the Padres on a whim one day and be oblivious to the bad start to the season but they showed up and were actually in the building as the owners in an amazing end of the season spurt and into a playoffs where they i was there they saw a very packed San Diego city to see what Manny and Fernando can do so i think then it dovetails into the statement that they released a couple of days ago that i'm sure most if not all of you have um have seen and it's a long one but it basically this just talks about how they're grateful the the last line is really what i'm after here is that they respect the history and they're grateful for the foundation that Peter Seidler and so many others built for the Padres. And you can go, you can pause this or I'll leave it here in the corner. If you guys want to read it all, if you have not yet, but I get the vibes that they are largely interested in building off of and not rebuilding this lineup. But that being said, it to me is okay. If there's no trade on those guys and you're interested in building, what do you do then are you talking about are they gonna just go out and make moves arbitrarily for the sake of moves, even if Tarik Skubal is not really worth 200 gazillion dollars does he get 200 gazillion and and Mori Hone gets a billion and are these guys going to be splashes and big spends just for the sake of big spends are they going to hold and let everything just kind to sit and simmer are they going to be savvy investors in the margins are they going to get rid of AJ Preller because uh you know if you can't make any moves with Tatis and Machado and Bogarts and all those guys maybe that's the chain it does beg the question of what is really the moves um this one these are some quotes from a uh couple of weeks earlier from them said they're all in they meant it we mean it now all in our people all in our winning all in San Diego and beyond you deserve more than words it deserves action and i think that you can you can do action in the right direction you can do action in the wrong direction you can do action that is just spinning your wheels and churning for nothing to be accomplished and so if we are going to hold steady on the long-term contracts that are here and if they're going to say that hey we see Peter's vision but if they're also then going to get hit with a potential for a salary cap either be it hard or soft and other labor restrictions that don't allow them to just be um oh we're going to spend a literal billion dollars worth of deferred like if if this was five years ago and they came in and bought Seidler's team i would have said okay holy hell we're about to go on a run where they're just going to sign everybody and spend all this money to be true not just competitive but truly like elite elite and just go for it um but i i will be curious now if we are definitively holding on to some of these guys to be career Padres because i don't think AJ Preller's quote was to shut this down of like oh no we're not trading them right now but we could be open to in the future they're saying that we're going to hold on to these guys to the bitter end and that means ever increasing salaries for those guys and contracts that are going to end up being major albatrosses around our necks and a need to find winning potentially in the really smart margins so i'm curious where those moves start to happen and when those moves start to happen because we keep having a depleted farm system we keep having shortcomings of like we get all this headline top of the top like major talent and then we have Austin Hayes grounding into game-ending double plays and it's like well that sucks 170 games into the season we're dependent upon Austin bleeping Hayes we're dependent upon our bullpen running out of of guys we're dependent on like we just seem to always be like a little bit short and i just don't know if you can accomplish that by um big big spending so i gotta see what these actions are going to actually be and maybe these actions are different coaches and different leadership and different scouting and different stuff that we're not going to initially inherently appreciate as like oh that was really savvy um i think this was an interesting quote in the realm of this from Joe Musgrove um they've got our full support and we know that we're all there while we're all about winning he said of the new owners so we expect some moves in the offseason to revamp the group get the pieces that we need make another run at it so player support for them we've had some other quotes come out from Tatis and Machado just that they like the guys that they're gonna they understand that help is on the way curious to see what these moves are gonna be and i think that it's good i'm optimistic there's a lot of potential here but i don't want to see moves just for the sake of splashes i don't want to see oh we went out and signed uh you know a 37 year old dh and a 35 year old starting pitcher and we gave Michael King and Nick Pavetta and Wandy Peralta all this cash to lock them up for career i i don't need to see that i need to see really intelligent savvy moves i think the window's open for like two or three more really solid years before we start to have to talk about like moving Manny to first and some other sort of like just you know tread water to extend careers for their value type of moves um but that being said a couple of years go this is all going to start happening very very quickly even with the potential for labor negotiations dragging into uh lockout and all that kind of stuff i still think that post the World Series in the Brewers in four um so the World Series is going to be done in about a week we're going to see some moves i think happen really quickly after that for the Padres whether it's internal re-signings or external signings i just think that like we're real close to starting to see this action so very curious to see exactly what it is very excited hope you guys are as well let me know what your thoughts are until next time we'll talk to you soon