Heading into this season, the biggest questions facing the San Diego Padres was their starting pitching rotation. Who would be in it? Where would they get innings? Who is the ace? How bad could it be?
It appears that the team’s lack of MLB experience is not holding them back. In fact, they’ve gone in the other direction, calling up players from the low minor-leagues in an experiment to see how many of them can survive once they get here. The early results have been impressive.
Making his MLB debut this season after never having pitched above double-A, Chris Paddack leads all starters on the team in strikeouts per 9 innings (11.