The demise of the 2015 Padres hasn't got as much national attention as the building of them got in December. It doesn't make for sensational headlines, but it does make for some good long form essays on the topic. Rany Jazayerli took on the task for Grantland.com. His story covers everything Padres going back to December. All the trades, all the early returns for the Padres, all the early returns for the teams they dealt with and the picture he paints is how troublesome the whole rebuilding of the team turned out to be. Two paragraphs about 3/4 of the way through the article illustrates some of this quite well for me:
Add up the damage and it’s staggering.