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Column: Decisions over Fernando Tatis Jr., Andy Green, farm system facing Padres

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As a baseball team, not necessarily a baseball franchise, the Padres have reached yet another crossroads in what has been a 50-year-old map littered with more crossroads than Indiana.

This organization makes money. The team making hay is another story.

With a little more than a month to go in what has morphed from unexpected promise into typical Swing And Miss Friars, the Padres’ padrones have, as I see it, three critical decisions on their table:

1 — Given Fernando Tatis Jr.’s penchant for injury, do they attempt to extend the popular rookie shortstop’s deal, as the Braves did with Ronald Acuna Jr.