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SAN DIEGO -- The Padres anticipate a summer-long battle in the National League West. It’s been the sport’s most competitive division through April. The four teams at the top will spend the next five months vying for a division crown -- and multiple Wild Card spots, potentially.

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New York-based sluggers have maintained their stranglehold on the top of the Hitter Power Rankings. But a Midwestern star has jumped into the top three, while three new names with hot bats have broken into the top 10 since our last edition two weeks ago. Once again, the Hitter Power

SAN DIEGO -- Xander Bogaerts couldn’t help but smile as he rounded first base during his home run trot on Tuesday night. “Haven’t had one of those in a while,” Bogaerts would later say. “It was good to feel that.”

The Minor League season is a month old and several of the game's best hitting prospects are off to fast starts. Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony is tearing up Triple-A (just like he did at the end of last year), Padres shortstop Leo De Vries is leading the High-A Midwest

On a day in which homers were flying out of Minor League ballparks across the country, a few particularly stood out. Top 100 prospects Coby Mayo and Moisés Ballesteros slugged a pair of homers apiece, although even those were outdone by a Mets slugger who took three jogs around the

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres have spent so much of the first month of their season placing players on the injured list that Tuesday brought a welcome sight: For the first time all year, they brought a player back from that injured list. Two, in fact. Luis Arraez and Jason

The Washington Nationals are on the clock. OK, not quite yet, but they do have the No. 1 pick in this year’s Draft, and MLB Pipeline has an updated and expanded Draft Top 150, ranking the players all 30 teams are criss-crossing the country to see to line up their

Youth was served in the Minors on Tuesday, which featured a pair of heavy-hitting outbursts from two teenagers who rank among the best in their respective organizations. But they weren't alone as a number of Top 100 prospects came through with notable performances to kick off another week of Minor

SAN DIEGO -- For the first time this season, the Padres are scuffling. They've lost three straight series, including their first home series loss of the season -- a sweep at the hands of Tampa Bay that ended with a 4-2 loss on Sunday afternoon. Of course, there are explanations

SAN DIEGO -- As Fernando Tatis Jr. makes his early MVP case, he seems to be doing something spectacular on a nightly basis. One night it’s with his bat. The next night it’s with his legs. On Sunday afternoon, it was his cannon of a right arm.

If you’ve watched even a second of a Mets game so far, you know that there aren’t many teams -- or many teams' fans -- having more fun than the Mets right now. (Sunday afternoon’s implosion against the Nationals obviously excepted!) Their spot atop the NL East is their ultimate

The season is a month old, and the National League West, as expected, is proving to be the most competitive division in baseball. A roundtable of NL West beat reporters gathered to examine where things stand as we inch toward May: Four teams in the NL West are above .500,

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres have fallen into their first rough patch of the season. They’ve lost three straight, four of five and six of eight. It was bound to happen at some point -- and considering the injuries they’re dealing with, it was probably going to happen sooner rather

Every MLB season is a marathon of ebbs and flows, peaks and valleys. Through it all, players and teams just hope to find some positive consistency. Hot starts, as promising as they seem, often fade after a couple of weeks as the season hits its stride. But when a player

SAN DIEGO -- The moment was better than Tirso Ornelas could’ve envisioned. And he spent a long, long time envisioning it. Even longer than the eight-plus years and 3,200 plate appearances he spent in the Padres’ Minor League system. Ranked as San Diego’s No. 11 prospect by MLB Pipeline, Ornelas

SAN DIEGO -- With a spate of upcoming off-days, the Padres reshuffled their pitching staff ahead of their 1-0 loss on Friday night in the series opener against the Rays at Petco Park. Kyle Hart, the team’s No. 5 starter, was optioned to Triple-A El Paso. Ryan Bergert, the organization’s

Fernando Tatis Jr. is looking as good as ever. For the first time since his 42-homer, 25-steal season in 2021, the Padres right fielder is playing like the superstar we saw when he took the Majors by storm in his early 20s. After missing all of 2022 due to an

One month can’t decide a season. But it can make you rethink some things. It’s been nearly that long since the 2025 campaign began en masse on March 27, and a lot has changed in that time. Several teams that were expected to be top contenders have scuffled out of

This story was excerpted from AJ Cassavell's Padres Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DETROIT -- When Michael King struck out 11 Guardians over five scoreless innings earlier this season, he received a signed picture from one of