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One year ago, we lamented that, even with consensus top prospects shortstop Leo De Vries and catcher Ethan Salas, the Padres were a bottom-10 system in the game. Fast forward one year, De Vries is

Going into the 2025 season, I wrote that the system had more questions than answers. Twelve months later, that's even more true. At least a year ago, the organization had two clear top-50 prospects. N...

For El Paso’s Tirso Ornelas, it was easy. Mom hit from the left side. “Everyone in my family is right-handed, but my mom is the only one who is a lefty, and I’ve always been kind

I led my top 30 list last year with the comment, “eventually Preller will run out of prospects to trade.” I thought that, after trading Dylan Lesko, Robby Snelling, Adam Mazur, and Jakob Marsee, among

SURPRISE, Ariz.— Coming into 2025, little was truly known about right-hander Tucker Musgrove. The original plan was for the 2023 seventh-round pick, who was more of an outfielder in college, was to be...

El Paso Winner:  L&J Cafe This El Paso landmark has been around since 1927, in one form or another, and serves classic Mexican Sonoran border cuisine. It’s one of the rare places that's ...

There were years over the last the decade when the Padres faced many difficult decisions about which players to add to the 40-player roster in advance of the Rule 5 draft. As this year's deadline

Going into 2026, most national rankings will have the Padres’ farm system at the bottom of the league. What will soon follow is a standard refrain that Padres President A.J. Preller went “all-in” at t...

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- It's the top of the ninth inning at Surprise Stadium. Braedon Karpathios digs into the box—the 22-year-old spits on a changeup to start the at-bat. One pitch later, he laces a fastb...

Hours after the offseason officially got underway Thursday, the San Diego Padres made their first addition of the winter, signing journeyman utility player Pablo Lopez to a minor league deal. The 3...

SAN ANTONIO -- To minimize travel in the sprawling Double-A Texas League, teams only play one series a year against the five teams outside their division. That means 108 of a team's 138 contests are

LAKE ELSINORE — Brian Burres, 44, is in his third year with the San Diego Padres organization and has just completed his first season as the manager of the Lake Elsinore Storm.  Burres is from ...

El Paso Chihuahuas (Won series at Sugar Land Space Cowboys, 4-2) Players of the Week: Francisco Acuna, 25, spent most of the year with the Double-A San Antonio, where he had a rather pedestrian...

LAKE ELSINORE – At the end of the 2024 season, Cardell Thibodeaux was a 20-year-old undersized left fielder coming off a bad sophomore year at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, where he batted just ...

Sugar Land Space Cowboys 12, Chihuahuas 6 (8 innings) Key Stats: 2B Ripken Reyes 1-for-5, 3B, 2 RBI; RF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-4, BB; CF Trenton Brooks 2-for-4, 2B, BB; SS Francisco Acuña 3-for-4, 2 R...

Chihuahuas 5, Sugar Land Space Cowboys 3 Key Statistics: 1B Tim Locastro 1-for-4, BB; RF Yonathan Perlaza 1-for-4, BB; DH Luis Campusano 1-for-2; 3B Marcos Castañon 1-for-3, 3B, BB; LHP Jackson...

LAKE ELSINORE – The Padres drafted switch-hitting middle infielder Dylan Grego in the 13th round of this year's draft out of Ball State University. Grego, a Kansas City native, had entered the transf...

Sugar Land Space Cowboys 8, Chihuahuas 5 Key Statistics: RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-5, 2B, 2 RBI; CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-3, 2 BB; 2B Ripken Reyes 1-for-2, R, BB, 2 RBI; RHP Matt Waldron 5 IP, 5

Chihuahuas 5, Sugar Land Space Cowboys 1 Key Stats: LHP JP Sears 4 IP, ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 6 K; LHP Omar Cruz (W, 5-5) 2 IP, H, 4 BB, 2 K; RHP Sean Reynolds,

LAKE ELSINORE —  Kannon Kemp may have been the Padres' eighth-round pick in the 2023 draft, but that doesn't fully tell the story of how he was seen coming out of high school in Texas. Then

Chihuahuas 13, Sugar Land Space Cowboys 2 Key Stats: DH Luis Campusano 2-for-5, R, RBI, BB; 2B Clay Dungan 2-for-6, 2B; RF Yonathan Perlaza 3-for-5, R, 2 RBI, BB; CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-5, HR (10) ...

LAKE ELSINORE -- In an organization that has become renowned for finding talent in the ranks of undrafted free agents, Alex McCoy, 23, has the potential to emerge as one of the Padres' scouting depart...

With the two Single-A teams already done for the year and instructional league work getting underway in the desert, we've still got plenty going on across the site. Subscribers have a profile on Jagge...

Chihuahuas 16, Albuquerque Isotopes 3 Key Statistics: 2B Clay Dungan 1-for-4, BB, SB (30); DH Luis Campusano 1-for-4, 4 BB, 3 R; C Rodolfo Durán 4-for-5, 2B, 3B, GS HR (14) BB, 7 RBI; LF Tim

SAN ANTONIO -- For years, people in minor league baseball said the toughest leap for a young player was from High-A to Double-A. Shifts in league alignments and smaller rosters that force players to m...

Albuquerque Isotopes 9, Chihuahuas 0 (6 innings) Key Statistics: RF Yonathan Perlaza 1-for-2; LF Trenton Brooks 1-for-2; RHP Logan Gillaspie (L, 1-3) 3.1 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 2 BB, 2 K; RHP Clay Edmondso...

Chihuahuas 4, Albuquerque Isotopes 2 Key Stats: RHP Victor Lizarraga (W, 1-0), 5 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 3 BB, 2 HBP, 5 K; RHP Bradgley Rodriguez IP, BB, K; RHP Sean Reynolds (S, 5), IP,

Alburquerque Isotopes 21, Chihuahuas 10 Key Stats: C Luis Campusano 2-for-5, BB; RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-2, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 BB; LF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-6, 2 RBI; CF Clay Dungan 2-for-5, 2B, R, RBI, B...

Chihuahuas 15, Albuquerque Isotopes 7 Key Statistics: CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-4, 2 R, HR (9), 2 RBI, BB; RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-5, 2 R, RBI, SB (14); C Rodolfo Durán 2-for-4, 3 R, BB, RBI; 1B

El Paso Chihuahuas (Split Series at Salt Lake, 3-3) Players of the Week:  Marcos Castañon, 26, made the most of his Triple-A debut on the road in Salt Lake City with four extra-base hits, inclu...

Chihuahuas 10, Salt Lake Bees 6 Key Stats: RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-5, HR (18), 2 RBI; 3B Marcos Castañon 2-for-4, 2B, BB, 4 RBI; 2B Nate Mondou 1-for-2, 3 BB; CF Tirso Ornelas 1-for-4, BB, 2

LAKE ELSINORE – Kash Mayfield finished his first full professional year with an ERA of 2.97 in 60.1 innings for the Low-A Lake Elsinore Storm. The Padres' first pick and the 25th overall in 2024,

Salt Lake Bees 6, Chihuahuas 5 Key Statistics: RF-IB Tim Locastro 2-for-5, SB (28); C Luis Campusano 2-for-3, RBI, BB; 1B-2B Nate Mondou 2-for-5; DH Rodolfo Durán 2-for-4; 3B Marcos Castañon 2-for-...

When the Padres drafted catcher Lamar King Jr. out of high school in Baltimore in the fourth round back in 2022, they recognized that he would need significant time to develop. While he showed the ...

Salt Lake Bees 8, Chihuahuas 7 Key Statistics: 1B Tim Locastro 2-for-5, 2B, 2 RBI; DH Luis Campusano 2-for-4, 2B, RBI; C Rodolfo Durán 2-for-4, 2 R; 3B Marcos Castañon 1-for-3, 2 R, HR (1), 2

LAKE ELSINORE – The San Diego Padres allocated nearly 85% of their 2025 draft bonus pool to three high school players: First-rounder Kruz Schoolcraft and catchers Ty Harvey and Truitt Madonna. Brea...

Chihuahuas 6, Salt Lake Bees 5 (10 Innings) Key Stats: C Luis Campusano 2-for-4, RBI; RHP Connor Gillaspie 3 IP, H, BB, 4 K; RHP Bradgley Rodriguez 1.1 IP, H, BB; RHP Manuel Castro (W, 3-1) ,

Salt Lake Bees 7, Chihuahuas 3 Key Stats: LHP Jackson Wolf 3.2 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 3 BB, K; RHP Ron Marinaccio IP, H, 2 K; RHP Francis Peña IP, H; DH Luis Campusano 1-for-4;

Chihuahuas 11, Salt Lake Bees 9 Key Statistics: RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-5, 2B, BB, 2 RBI; DH Luis Campusano 2-for-5, 2 R, HR (24), 2 RBI, BB; CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-5, 2 R, HR (8), 2

El Paso Chihuahuas (Lost to Tacoma Rainiers, 1-5) Players of the Week: With a 1-5 series against the club they were battling for a second-half playoff spot, the Chihuahuas fell to 4.5 games bac...

Tacoma Rainiers 2, Chihuahuas 1 Key Stats: LHP Miguel Cienfuegos 5.2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, K, 3 BB; RHP Stephen Jones 1.1 IP, H; 2B Nate Mondou 2-for-4, 2B; CF Tirso Ornelas 1-for-4 Prospect Watch:...

Tacoma Rainiers 10, Chihuahuas 6 Key Stats: 3B Ripken Reyes 3-for-4, 3 2B, 3 RBI; 1B Tim Locastro 3-for-3, 2B, BB, 3 R; CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-5; LHP JP Sears IP, 2 H, ER, 2 K, BB; LHP

Tacoma Rainiers 11, Chihuahuas 9 Key Statistics: RF Tirso Ornelas 1-for-4, BB; C Luis Campusano 3-for-5; 1B Tim Locastro 1-for-3, HR (7), 4 RBI; CF Clay Dungan 2-for-5; 3B Ripken Reyes 2-for-4, 3B,...

Tacoma Rainiers 9,  Chihuahuas 5 (10 innings) Key Stats: LHP Jackson Wolf, 5 IP, H, 1 R (0 ER), 4 K; RHP Francis Peña, 1.2 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, K; RHP Sean Reynolds, IP, H, 2

Chihuahuas 6, Tacoma Rainiers 3 Key Stats: DH Luis Campusano 2-for-3, 2B, BB; CF Tirso Ornelas 2-for-5, 2 2B; RF Yonathan Perlaza 2-for-5, 2 2B; C Rodolfo Durán 1-for-4, HR (13), 3 RBI; SS Clay Dun...

Tacoma Rainiers 13, Chihuahuas 10 (10 innings) Key Statistics: SS Tyler Wade 2-for-6, R, RBI, SB (10); RF Yonathan Perlaza 4-for-6, 2B, HR (17), 3 RBI; DH Rodolfo Durán 2-for-5, HR (12), 2 RBI; 1B ...