Is It TIME For Him To Go?

Is it finally time for him to go as this man has been very controversial for the Padres and could be losing seasons for them? Is it time to get rid of him or is he actually doing a great job and everyone's overreacting and everything is okay? Let's talk about it. Hi, welcome back to another episode of Padres Digest with your host, Andrew. Yes, the season just ended. Yes, I am miserable. And yes, I am already making another video because I am insane and I'm coping. i'm huffing my copium uh i was gonna take i was gonna take a day off today but i've seen a lot of talk around a certain person mr aj preller himself and i felt i should give my two cents now that the season's over and everything is horrible and life has lost all meaning before we get too deep into it uh thank you the reminder on the bottom right there for ruining my day i didn't need you to remind me that we lost three to one and i hate you now for doing that anyways uh please subscribe as always follow us on x instagram facebook padres digest uh anyways let's talk aj preller uh who doesn't love talking aj preller it's everyone's favorite hot take a lot of people right now are blaming preller a lot of people are defending preller a lot of people are saying get rid of him a lot of people are saying keep him i know you guys have your opinions and i've seen your comments i know a lot of you guys are pro well i feel like the ones who are most vocal are the ones who are con or don't like aj preller uh personally i have my own opinions and i'll share with them in a little bit but i feel like if you know me you should know by now what they are so i thought we could just go through talk about the pros of AJ Preller the cons of AJ Preller uh and just you know obviously you got to show the trades when you talk AJ Preller has he screwed us i don't know i mean i do know but let's just talk about it let's talk about it oops hold on i gotta get rid of that whoop there we go so AJ Preller keep or fire the case to keep five of seven seasons he's had a playoff berth from 2020 to 2024 three straight from uh 22 to 24 three straight 90 win seasons 93 90 and 91 playoff all three years home attendance uh three million plus for four straight years uh seasons above 500 five uh six of 7 seasons, don't do the meme 2024 injury hit of course I mean Pavetta got injured, Musgrove got injured, CDIL for Laureano Giolito, Ranjifo, Duran and he really has no control over that and the fan pulse, his role is to get us into the tournament, he does that almost every year, these are people from Twitter, Guy built a contending and exciting team yearly so he does have a lot of success with the Padres and you know he's made the team good for the most part right but on the flip side a lot of people are saying yes the team has been good but he's also been hurting the team in a lot of different reasons right so of course we've had no NL West titles that is kind of hard to do when you have the Dodgers in the division but the best finish we've had is second of five second in World Series trips zero in 12 seasons the furthest we've made it is one NLCS where we lost four to one to the Phillies we have missed playoffs seven of the 12 seasons that AJ Preller has been um general manager and 21 and 23 are also really bad seasons postseason exits of course NLDS NLCS NLDS and a wild card in NLDS so we definitely have not made it very far recently five managers of course you got Andy Green Jace Tingler Bob Melvin Mike Shildt Craig Stammen Mike's still kind of retired so i don't know if it's really Preller's fault but you know what i mean right fan pulse for that though just being competitive each year is no longer enough i always go back to imagining this team if he had just kept some of the prospects traded away what does that look like well it's a very long list those are all the players and prospects he has traded the way from 2020 to 2025 uh yeah it's a lot it's a little it's a lot right i mean Leuvrays obviously big names Ryan Berger and Steven Kolkwitz for Freddy Fermin has definitely not looked great for us i don't even know if Freddy Fermin will play for us next year uh i assume so you know got James Wood obviously uh you have Josh Naylor uh Cal Quantrill had some pretty good years i'm trying to find oh Xavier Edwards has been pretty good um trying to find the obvious one obviously Ty France is back where is where is he where's that mr shortstop who's making us look dumb there you go CJ Abrams Mackenzie Gore's been kind of mediocre but i mean you can't argue there's a lot of really good players on this on this list uh and yes you could argue that i don't think it's possible to say we've won the Juan Soto trade because i don't think we won the Juan Soto trade but i feel like if you look at the full context of it it was pretty even but if you look at it from a one from one standpoint we got fleeced uh so i obviously cannot argue that AJ Preller has definitely traded away great talent for either good talent or just not great i mean again i don't hate Freddie Fermin but it would have been really nice to have Ryan Berger and Steven Kolick on this team this year even though both are out with Tommy John this year uh or you know got injured but you know like i i it was a little confusing so i'm not going to pretend like AJ Preller hasn't had very bad trades uh but i do think he's built a pretty good roster i feel i do feel like this year was a good AJ Preller work with what he has because ownership didn't really want to spend money this year roster but i also can't pretend like this year's trade deadline definitely didn't suck i mean Casey Mize is obviously the biggest one i understood the trade at the time because Casey Mize had a 2.70 ERA when we traded for him right and then he had a 7.46 ERA with us 7.46 just god awful uh and i i do genuinely think he was just hurt the entire time he played for us and i think AJ Preller took a risk and just completely missed but we gave up Cash Mayfield and Jackson Wolfe for that Robbie Ray i just never liked uh and i don't know why we got traded for him but you know we gave up Mendes and Hernandez who were both cool pitchers right and engage workman i don't even know why we got him but you know cool there's also Hunter Stratton who actually i kind of like but we haven't seen him at all he's a pitcher from the Pirates who's actually been pretty nice in AAA a but you know i think this year's deadline might have been the worst deadline we've had which i don't know if i want to say is saying something because we've had some pretty i feel like most of our deadlines have been pretty a-okay but i think this one was by far the worst but you know with the holes we had on this team i do think he filled the gaps in nicely i mean Loriao got hurt we replaced him with Saman Taylor and Saman Taylor did his job for a while and then we replaced him with Renhefo and Ren Hefo did a good job for a while and then he got hurt and then we got Dustin Harris who did a pretty good job but at the end of the day all of them kind of failed during the playoffs um and then the gaps we tried filling with you know Griffin Canning which didn't work great Giolito which didn't work great and then we finally traded for Robbie Ray and for Casey Mize and those didn't work out so i don't know i mean i think the way i feel about Preller and i'll show you here i do think my verdict i do want to keep him right AJ Preller has done well for what he has he's definitely not perfect but he's done more good than harm even if there's not a lot more good than bad it's still more good so if i had to put like a percentage on it i feel like he's done 65 percent good for us and 45 what's the math on that 35 35 bad we'll say 60 40 because i can't do math 60 good 40 bad and the 40 bad as definitely absolutely hurt but i mean we are making the playoffs NL West titles i mean the dodgers are gonna you know win most of the time when they're spending 500 million dollars a year NLCS trip was nice world series trips though we're getting closer somehow well i don't know if i can say we're getting closer sometimes it feels like we're taking a step forward and then sometimes it just feels like we're taking steps back but three straight 90 win teams and i think the brewers are a really good comparison to the brewers have been a really good team for a long time and just haven't amounted to much with that but i do think they're getting very very close to being that championship team so i feel like the brewers are honestly a good comparison of who we want to be not that i want to give them credit screw the brewers but i i do feel like they are a good example right so overall i do think preller does more good than bad but i definitely do think the bad it is really bad but i just don't know who we could replace him with that could have a similar impact to this team i don't think it's time to blow anything up i know it sucks that we can't be clutch i will say i do like craig stammen i do think he had a very good first year and i do hope he continues to manage with us but i still don't know if he was the best decision to manage because it was clear he got hella out managed by pat murphy uh but you know we have him and i'm okay with keeping him because i don't want to get another manager uh but yeah so overall preller i like you i'm keeping my eye on you uh the minute we go below 500 or miss the playoffs goodbye but for right now with the new owners hopefully smart spending i i do like the future i'm excited for the future but what do you guys think i know you're gonna give me your comments on should we keep aj preller should we not uh so again you know just just give me how you feel tell me how you feel like him fire him just tell me maybe i'll make a poll on youtube too while we're at it but yeah thank you guys so much for watching please subscribe as always follow us on X, Instagram, Facebook, Padres Digest, thank you to our channel members show members just for awesome bonus features and have a fantastic rest oh excuse me rest of your day random burp at the last second crazy uh padres you made me sad but you know see you next season bye