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Column: Should Padres study Rays, who with less money have No. 1 farm system and 69-50 record?

Next up for the Padres, starting Monday night, is a home series with the Tampa Bay Rays.

These three games aside, here’s some big-picture advice for the folks who run the Padres:

Fancy your team the “Pad-Rays.”

That’s an easy thing for any geek to type, but if the Pads could be more like the Rays — and, in fairness, they may be tracking a similar trend line — for Pads fans, it would be like having both a tasty appetizer and a good meal.

You may have heard the Padres have a farm system that’s super-duper.