The Padres defense has been pretty bad this year. Not quite awful, but comfortably in the lower third of the league. This of course was part of Grand Master AJ Preller's esoteric master plan to "just hit the f'n ball." Preller's radical offseason rostermaggedon finally buried the Jed Hoyer brand of Padres baseball which revolved around lockdown bullpens, extreme run prevention defense, just enough starting pitching, and hopefully one or two runs in a game. In fairness, the Kansas CIty Royals have ridden this philosophy to some excellent baseball in the last few seasons, but years of boring baseball masquerading as "pitcher's duels" in Petco Park have lead the front office to the nuclear option on the Padres lineup - lots of bats and nowhere to play them.
Fixing the Padres Defense
