Quote from Randy Manese on June 21, 2026, 11:53 am

Oblique injuries are scary even those considered slight.  Salas has cooled off over the last couple of weeks and that could be attributed to the injury or just the league making adjustments to him.  Concur that it is a good time for him to take a break anyway since this version of the SA team is not going to challenge for the playoffs.

Quote from Randy Manese on June 21, 2026, 12:00 pm

Deja vu all over again!  The Dominican Summer League Padres Gold team is just crushing it!  Don't know if their pitching is as strong as last year, but the hitting/on base percentage/base stealing is impressive.  I would have promoted Bastidas over a couple of those sent to Arizona and top prospect Hernandez looks like the real thing on offense but has got to get a lot better on the defensive end - may have to move him to the OF or 2b.  We should know in a couple of more weeks if they can continue this pace since they actually started slow, around .500, then exploded to their 13-2 record.  Another championship?

Just saw where Bastidas was promoted to the ACL along with little (5:05) Eddson Martinez.  Good luck to the both of them!

Actually, the Brown team is getting surprising productivity out of their offense but the pitching is atrocious.  They'll be lucky to win a third of their games.

Quote from Jeremy Hill on June 21, 2026, 1:44 pm

Quote from Randy Manese on June 21, 2026, 11:53 am

Oblique injuries are scary even those considered slight.  Salas has cooled off over the last couple of weeks and that could be attributed to the injury or just the league making adjustments to him.  Concur that it is a good time for him to take a break anyway since this version of the SA team is not going to challenge for the playoffs.

I just hope it's really a slight injury and not the typical downplaying of something more serious that the team tends to put out. We went from them saying Campusano could potentially tough it out and keep playing to him being gone 6 weeks and counting. They said Pivetta might be able to make his next start, but they were keeping him out as a precaution. Now he's on the 60 day and still doesn't seem to have made much progress towards a return. We went from Musgrove supposedly having an outside shot to return for the playoffs last year to who knows when we'll see him again. Laureano went from a minor initial report to likely being done for the season. I find it hard to take any injury information put out by the team at face value.

Quote from Jeremy Hill on June 22, 2026, 12:19 am

Tucker Musgrove is reportedly headed to AA. With the first half officially in the books I would expect we'll see a fair amount of movement before the second half starts up on Tuesday.