Answers to three Padres questions I had entering this week’s Winter Meetings

On Saturday, I posed just a few questions I had relating to the Padres getting into the 2025 Winter Conferences in Dallas. Most executives have left following immediately’s Rule 5 draft so now’s a superb time to look again at these questions:

Query 1: Will the Padres speak with Roki Sasaki this week?

Reply: no

Sasaki was not there on the Winter Conferences. Based on Kevin Acee, the 23-year-old was on his solution to america from Japan on Tuesday.

Sasaki’s agent, Joel Wolfe. instructed the media he expects to fulfill together with his consumer within the coming days and start internet hosting conferences with golf equipment as quickly as subsequent week. Sasaki will then return to Japan for the vacations after which have a second spherical of conferences in America with a smaller checklist of suitors.

I’d anticipate Sasaki to go to Petco Park in January.

Query 2: Is that this going to be a quiet week for Preller on the free agent entrance?

Reply: sure

As anticipated, the Padres weren’t in on any of the massive free brokers. It’s nonetheless fairly early within the offseason and the lower-tier free brokers aren’t going to signal till the larger guys go off the board. There must be extra readability available in the market earlier than the Padres go do one thing.

Query 3: Will there be a shock commerce?

Reply: no

There was an enormous commerce, because the Crimson Sox acquired Garrett Crochet from the White Sox, however the Padres have been by no means going to amass him after giving up their high pitching prospects final season and never eager to give up Ethan Salas or Leo De Vries.

There was a ton of speak across the availability of Dylan Stop although and that ought to solely proceed for the reason that free agent costs of starters appear to be out of some groups’ consolation zones. Stop has another 12 months of management and the Padres need to improve their monetary flexibility (sound familar?) in order that they’ll construct out their roster.

Jon Morosi related the Orioles to Stop immediately.