Allen Craig isn’t ready to give up his baseball career yet and will be returning to the San Diego Padres for the 2019 season. For a second-straight season, Craig has agreed to a minor league deal with the Padres, meaning the 34-year-old will return to the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, where he spent all of 2018.
Craig appeared in 92 games last season, hitting .293 with a .375 on-base percentage for the Chihuahuas. Within the hitter-friendly confines of Southwest University Park, Craig chipped in 13 home runs, 18 doubles, drove in 59 runs, and finished with an OPS of .