The Padres are just 3-3 since starting the season 3-1 against the Giants in San Diego, and darn it, you can’t really say they’re overperforming. Yeah, Arizona followed the Giants into Petco and took two out of three, but then the Padres took two out of three against the Cardinals in St. Louis.
They’ve hit 10 home runs in the six games since the opening series and their offense is right there in the middle of the pack, MLB-wise, and eighth in the NL, ahead of the Nationals, Cardinals, Rockies, and Reds — all teams that were figured to be better than them in the preseason prognostications.