Preview of the San Diego Padas 2025 season: Roster breakdown, bold projections and predictions

San Diego Padas could have been the best baseball team last October. We will never know with certainty. There was the strip without score without a 24 inning score that concluded their race. There was the quiet winter that followed. There has been the revelation of the struggle for families who blocked their future.

But soon there will be more chances to demonstrate that they were really. The Padres, leaving the profound disappointment in 2023, took their 2024 season among modest expectations. They continued to win the second more games in the history of franchise. Now, expectations are modest again – at least from the outside.

Within the organization, the stakes seem to be higher than ever. The Padas have a veteran core, more key players who approach free agency and other teams that turn with commercial interest. They have a new control person. And they still have quite talent to take another race in October.

Bold forecast

Luis Arraez, with a surgically repaired left thumb and the freely impending free agency, becomes the first player to hit .360 or rather in an entire season by Joe Mauer in 2009.

Expertied appression

Note: This is a projection in formation for when the Padres face an initial pitcher for the right hand. The sale of Atlanta Braves Chris Sales will start in Petco Park on the opening day.

After selling off a third consecutive joke, Arraez appears healthy and ready to challenge the average career. 354 which he recorded in 2023.

Tatis and others have eyes on an MVP caliber performance, but the questions about the duration continue to follow Tatis, which was slowed down last season by a stress reaction in the right leg.

The second classified last year for the debutant of the year of the National League, Merrill went from the ninth ninth to his debut to serve as the fulcrum of a post-installation contender.

An offensive coherence model marked on average 30 races in the house and 101 RBI in the last four seasons-Machado could return to being more a two-way force after a low season without physical limits.

In what should be a push to its value, Cronenworth is again a second starting base after spending most of the last two seasons at the beginning.

In the midst of its positional mix, Bogaerts remains a five -time silver shiny that still tries to win back its shape to the dish.

The sheets were not tied by the Chicago White Sox of 2024, but the Padres do not have a designated beef and the hot spring of the sheets probably earned him the first crack.

Except for an offensive rejuvenation, Heyward Figures to be a part-time player for a team that continues to look for a more permanent solution in the left field.

It is not a secret that the Padres would appreciate an update behind the dish, but Díaz improved his frame on the pitch last season and can serve as temporary solution.

Projected rotation

The Padas would love to sign King at an extension, but after the success not mitigated King in his first complete season as an appetizer of the great alloy, he could join Dylan to cease near the top of the next class of free agents.

The Padres did not stop listening to the commercial offers that ceased, the free pending agent, but so far no one has offered enough a radius.

Pivetta is under contract for at least these next two seasons, giving the launch coach Ruben Niebla the time to work with one of the most talented appetizers of the League.

With Yu Darvih and Matt Waldroni directed to the list of injuries, Vásquez should receive some leash at the beginning of the season, although Stephen Kolek offers an alternative ready on the back of the rotation.

Hart, who won the version of the Cy Young Award of the Korea baseball organization in 2024, will soon have his first opportunity of the Major League since he made four apparitions forgettable with the Boston Red Sox of 2020.

Top Solvers design

Suarez will try to sprinkle a little more variety this year after throwing a quick ball with four seams or a 97 percent platinum last season.

Only four rescuers of the last season have induced a higher breath of breath than Adam, who has things to close the games if the Padres end up exchanging Suarez.

With the departure of Tanner Scott, Estrada and the 26 -year -old colleague Adrian Morejon are ready to help the Padres to maintain one of the most bad bullpends of the League.

As the Padas accumulate

“Hope” comes from Annual by Stephen J. Nesbitt Optimism survey of Hope-O-Meter fans. “Farm” comes from Keith Law’s agricultural system rankings. The “bats” and “arms” are from the classification of Jim Bowden of the apricit of formations and rotations. “PWR” comes from The Athletic’s Preset Power Rankings. The team projections come from Austin Mock, while Jake Ciely has provided players’ projections.

*Randy Vásquez’s projection comes via Fangraphs 2025 Zips.

(Photo by Luis Arraez: Christian Petersen / Getty Images)