After a slow start to the offseason, the San Diego Padres have lit the hot stove with a couple of megachanges for opening pitchers. First, San Diego acquired 2018 American League Cy Young winner Blake Snell for prospects for the Tampa Bay Rays. The Parents then turned around and added 2020 National League Cy Young runner-up Yu Darvish along with receiver Victor Caratini by right-handed pitcher Zach Davies and four young prospects in a megachange with some Chicago Cubs now in reconstruction. As if that wasn’t enough, San Diego also made room in its agenda for a free agent signing by adding Korean boxing player Ha-seong Kim.
Will San Diego’s Christmas shopping be enough to catapult the Parents over the Los Angeles Dodgers as the team to beat in MLB? Will the moves be the biggest fuss any team makes this winter? And what should the Puppies do now that they have changed to their own? We had ESPN baseball experts Bradford Doolittle, Jesse Rogers, and David Schoenfield answer these and other questions.