Padres Making MOVES...

The Padres are making moves as these newly acquired players need a spot on this roster, which means other players in our roster had to get sent down. So who got called up? Who got sent down? Let's talk about it. Hi, welcome back to another episode of Padres Digest with your host, Andrew. Today, we have some roster moves to go over. Trade deadline just ended. We got new players. They got to get added, which means other players, like I said, got to get sent down. So we'll talk about that in a sec. Also, some sad news and good news. Obviously, Christian talked about Nick Pavetta getting injured. It seems like I saw this. I probably should have brought it up. Hold on. Let me show you. Okay, here, I'll show you real quick. There's possibly good news regarding Nick Pavetta. He threw 20 plus pitches in the bullpen after leaving today's rehab start in Lake Elsinore. Key will be how he feels tomorrow and how soon he can get back on the mound. So maybe not as bad news as we thought, but still not great news. So yeah, we'll talk about that and some other news. But before that, really quickly, a few things. First of all, please subscribe as always. Why is it not working? There we go. Please subscribe, as always. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Padre's Digest, and, of course, this video was brought to you by Morgan & Morgan. If you or your child spent years growing up on social media and experienced serious mental health struggles, you should hear this. Recently, a jury ordered Meta and YouTube to pay millions for their role in designing and promoting addictive platforms. They knew their apps could contribute to anxiety, depression, and body image issues, but did not share those risks while prioritizing profits. The recent historic verdict underscores the consequences of those decisions. Now, Morgan & Morgan is stepping up to hold these platforms accountable for the harm they caused. Click the link in my bio and take a short quiz, and you may be entitled to a recovery of a potential $1,000. Or a potential recovery over $1,000. But yeah, thank you very much, Morgan & Morgan. Now back to this. Let me go over here. So you probably saw the moves already, but just in case, we got Hunter Stratton from the Pirates for Andrew Moore, which means that to put Hunter Stratton on the 40-man roster, we had to move Jason Adam to the 60-day IL, because when you move a player to a 60-day IL, it frees up a roster spot, which then means also we have Casey Mize and Gage Workman. We added them to the 26-man roster, which means we optioned J.P. Sears and Rodolfo Duran. Initial reaction, makes sense, but also, Griffin Canning survives another day. Okay. Why do we keep Griffin Canning? Because I guess we hope someday he'll be good. But I guess it makes sense, because J.P. Sears does have options. But I feel like J.P. Sears is pitching much better than Griffin Canning ever has. What do I know? I'm just a guy who makes YouTube videos, who watches the Padres way too often, and knows that Griffin Canning sucks. What do I know? Also, on the pitching side, Casey Mize will make his start on Wednesday in Arizona. So tomorrow, Robbie Ray will be making his debut on Friday at Petco Park. So that'll be lit. But let's take a look at these moves, right? So we got Casey Mize, who we talked about before, but obviously great ERA, 2.70, below one whip, sub one whip, and 2.70 ERA. English, oh my God. 2.70 ERA with Detroit. Mize slots straight into rotation as a legit innings eater. And then Gage Workman, who we don't know as much about, But he's had a very small sample size in the majors, especially this year. But he's shown some pop. Two homers in just 38 appearances this season. 158 average isn't great. 553 OPS, also not great. But, you know, 38 plate appearances. I was going to see if he's any good against lefties. And then I remembered that he isn't himself a lefty. So, he hasn't had a single at-bat against a righty all year. Sorry, he hasn't had a single at-bat against a lefty all year. So, he is not a lefty killer. He is just another guy. I mean, I don't mind it. Let's see what he has. You know what I mean? Yes, he's kind of the throw-in for the trade, but I don't know. Prove yourselves, I guess. Prove me wrong. Prove us all wrong. I don't expect much, but hopefully, he's cool. Right? We'll see. Now, of course, JP Sears, who, yes, the ERA was bad, 468. You know, I think he was doing better. He was going to have to find his command because he had some rocky stretches with the big league clubs. Whip is not that great, but he did have some legitimately good outings. So it'll be nice to see how that goes. He pitched horrible in AAA this year, so maybe that might hurt his confidence. I don't know. Rodolfo Duran got sent back down to AAA, which is fine because I don't know why we need three catchers. But, okay. But yeah, he wasn't bad. I love Rodolfo Duran. Like, he's cool, but he was never really that great, to be honest. Like, he had a stretch where we, like, when he first got called up that we all loved him. And then now he's just kind of relegated to, like, I don't want to say mediocrity, but, you know. You know. I root for you anyways. And then we have Hunter Stratton, who we did trade for, but we immediately sent him to AAA. What I basically said about him is that he's just going to be a depth bullpen, which is fine. He has really good stuff. Stuff as in the literal stuff stat, which was like 104 stuff plus, which is 4 points above average overall. But he has some command issues that you can see from the 1.80 whip. So, I guess we'll see what he can do. If not, if nothing, it's nothing really bad. We traded Andrew Moore, and I don't even know who Andrew Moore is. So, I mean, he's actually, I looked it up, actually. But, yeah, he had some pretty good stats. But it was, it seemed like a trash for trash swap, pretty much. So, you know, whatever. But these are the moves that we decided, which I was very interested in seeing. So, yeah, me gusta. You probably noticed... That there's nothing about Robbie Ray yet. I'm assuming they're going to wait closer to Friday to make that move. Unless I completely missed something. Give me two seconds to check. Yeah, I don't see any moves yet for Robbie Ray roster wise. So yes, he's on the team. But I'm assuming his move is going to be closer to Friday. I don't actually technically know how long they have to make that move. But I'm assuming pretty soon. And I'm assuming and I'm kind of also low key hoping that this means Griffin Canning's next. If I had to guess because we're having Randy We're having Randy Vasquez today. I'm going to guess we're doing a Randy Vasquez and whoever gets sent down for Robbie Ray next, which is either going to be Griffin Canning or Hedman Marquez. I would hope Canning, but you know. I could also see, I guess, Lucas Giolito being released off the 40 man, but I don't know if they can if they want to do that to him. We have better options, right? Musgrove's coming back hopefully soon. He had an okay outing a Single-A and I like Elsner. Nick Pavetta, I don't know if he's ever coming back, but Nothing that's super crazy yet. I mean, once the roster players start coming back in, like once we get David Morgan back, once we get Miguel Andujar back, if we ever get Jason Adam back, like the roster crunch is definitely, Samardzija Taylor, once we get him back, the roster crunch is definitely going to be, like we have a good problem right now where we do have a lot of talent on this roster in some parts, not starting pitching that much, but like in other parts, right? Like Luis Ranjifo has been really good. Sung Moon Song has shown potential. We'll have to see how that plays out. But for right now, we know for sure, Gage Workman, Casey Mize, they are here and they are playing this series. I assume Gage Workman will. And we'll see how Robbie Ray is affected. And then just really quickly, I'll just show you the Jason Adam thing. But yeah, right shoulder strain, placed on the 15-day IL and then retro to June 30th. He was transferred to the 60-day IL late August or September. We'll see him. But yeah, he's really good when he's here. But, you know, he's hurt. Not much we can really do about that. But yeah, what do you guys think about these moves? Do you think losing JPCS was a good idea, bad idea? Would you rather Griffin Canyon get released and then JPCS after? Or do you think that... Just give me your opinion on what that is. And do you think Rodolfo Duran should have been called down? Or are you happy with that? You want to get rid of Federmeen? I'm sure you do. Fun fact about Federmeen, actually, real quick while we're here. Ryan Burgert had Tommy John surgery earlier this year. And now Ryan Kulik. Uh, Stephen Kolek, sorry, Stephen Kolek is going to have Tommy John surgery. So both pitchers we traded for Federmeen are now getting Tommy John surgery. So give me your reaction to that in the comments down below. But yeah, let me know your guys' thoughts. Please subscribe as always. Follow us on X, Instagram, Facebook, Padres Digest. Thank you to our channel members. Please join memberships if you'd like for awesome bonus features. And have a fantastic rest of your day. Please win today, Padres. Goodbye.