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Tuesday morning the Padres continued the rebuilding process by trading the resurgent Melvin Upton Jr. to the Blue Jays for 19-year-old pitching prospect Hansel Rodriguez. San Diego had to eat all but $5 million of the $22 million remaining on Upton's contract to facilitate the trade.
As always, the Padres had multiple goals for this trade. One, they wanted to add a prospect. That's obvious. And two, they wanted to free up some playing for younger players, in this case lefty swinging Alex Dickerson, who had been splitting left field time with Upton since being called up late last month.