I had on Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo this week on the Talking Friars podcast and one of my questions to him was about what the San Diego Padres need to add before the season starts.
“They need a big starting pitcher,” Russo told me. “[Blake] Snell and [Yu] Darvish are not good enough to win a championship. Darvish is always hurt. Snell hasn’t done anything in the last two years. They need some big pitching.”
While Russo might end up being correct when all things are said and done in saying the Padres don’t have enough frontline starting pitching, I doubt that Snell, Darvish, MIke Clevinger, Chris Paddack, Adrian Morejon, and Ryan Weathers are all going to get hurt again like they did in 2021.