The Padres have interest in starting pitchers Doug Fister, Jake Peavy and Jered Weaver, with Weaver the least likely of the three, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweets. The team’s interest in Peavy and Weaver had already been reported, but their reported interest in Fister is new.
All three pitchers fit into the same broad category of aging righty starters who have been down on their luck recently. Fister posted a 4.64 ERA, 5.7 K/9 and 3.1 BB/9 in 180 1/3 innings with Houston in 2016.