{"id":161109,"date":"2025-09-22T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:27:13","slug":"padres-notes-bogaerts-bader-de-vries-gore-kwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161109\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Notes: Bogaerts, Bader, De Vries, Gore, Kwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres are expected to activate Xander Bogaerts<\/a> from the 10-day injured list prior to Monday\u2019s game with the Brewers, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> writes.\u00a0 The shortstop might\u2019ve already been back this weekend except a planned on-field workout on Friday was canceled due to rain, delaying Bogaerts\u2019 return until the start of the six-game homestand that will conclude the Friars\u2019 regular season.<\/p>\n

A left foot fracture has kept Bogaerts out of action since August 27, and it wasn\u2019t clear if he would be able to play again before the postseason, even if the injury wasn\u2019t expected to keep Bogaerts out of any October action.\u00a0 Bogaerts has hit .262\/.330\/.387 with 10 home runs over 534 plate appearances, for a decent but unspectacular 103 wRC+.\u00a0 He has displayed some good plate discipline<\/a> and augmented his work at the plate with 20 steals (in 22 attempts) and very good defense in the view of the Outs Above Average metric (+7).\u00a0 Jake Cronenworth<\/a> and Jose Iglesias<\/a> have handed most of the shortstop duty over the last four weeks, and with Bogaerts back, Cronenworth should return to his usual second base position.<\/p>\n

Returning Monday gives Bogaerts six games to ramp up for a postseason trip that has been all but officially clinched.\u00a0 San Diego seems likely to finish as the NL\u2019s second wild card team, unless the Padres can overcome the Dodgers\u2019 three-game edge in the NL West race, or if the Padres somehow fritter away their five-game edge over the Reds (who hold the third and final wild card slot).<\/p>\n

Though the Padres surely wish they\u2019d been able to overtake Los Angeles for the division lead, a 25-22 record since the trade deadline has at least helped San Diego more or less lock up its fourth playoff berth in the last six years.\u00a0 President of baseball operations A.J. Preller was his typical active self at the deadline, swinging five trades in July<\/a> to add a variety of roster upgrades.<\/p>\n

The many players actually acquired were just the tip of the iceberg, as the New York Post\u2019s Jon Heyman<\/a> writes that \u201cthe Padres were in on every top player\u201d even somewhat available at the deadline.\u00a0 Most of those trade targets were cited on MLBTR\u2019s pages, but Heyman adds that the Padres also had interest in Harrison Bader<\/a>, who instead went<\/a> from the Twins to another NL power in the Phillies.<\/p>\n

San Diego\u2019s interest in Bader was logical, as the Padres had a clear need in the outfield.\u00a0 Rather than Bader, the Padres ended up acquiring<\/a> both Ramon Laureano<\/a> and Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/a> from the Orioles for a six-prospect trade package, addressing both left field and first base in one fell swoop.\u00a0 O\u2019Hearn\u2019s bat has cooled off since the deal while Laureano has played really well, so there probably aren\u2019t any regrets in the Friars\u2019 front office about missing out on Bader, who has exploded since arriving in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The largest of the Padres\u2019 deadline deals saw Mason Miller<\/a> and JP Sears<\/a> acquired<\/a> from the Athletics for four minor leaguers, including elite prospect Leo De Vries<\/a> as the headliner.\u00a0 De Vries was far and away the most prominent prospect moved at the deadline, and it took the inclusion of a controllable young arm like Miller to convince the Padres to move the young shortstop.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean that other teams didn\u2019t ask.\u00a0 San Diego was known to have<\/a> made a push to pry MacKenzie Gore<\/a> away from the Nationals, even though Washington wasn\u2019t going to move Gore for anything less than a haul.\u00a0 Heyman writes that the Nats\u2019 ask from the Padres was a five-player package that included De Vries, so it isn\u2019t too surprising that the Padres turned elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Steven Kwan<\/a> was another outfielder on the Padres\u2019 wishlist, and a De Vries-for-Kwan trade was floated between the Padres and Guardians even though Heyman says that neither team wanted a straight-up swap.\u00a0 Kwan (like Gore) is arbitration-controlled through the 2027 season, so while two-plus years of control is still a lot of an established player, it perhaps wasn\u2019t enough of a long-term add to convince Preller to move De Vries.<\/p>\n

From Cleveland\u2019s perspective, the Guardians often pursue at least one MLB-ready piece when trading their veteran assets.\u00a0 De Vries only just made his Double-A debut after his move to the Athletics\u2019 farm system, and while he is posting strong numbers, he doesn\u2019t turn 19 until next month and isn\u2019t expected to reach the majors until 2027.\u00a0 While the Guards were only 54-54 on July 31, keeping Kwan has paid dividends, as has helped contribute to the September surge that has now given Cleveland a chance at not just a playoff spot, but even the AL Central title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres are expected to activate Xander Bogaerts from the 10-day injured list prior to Monday\u2019s game with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,13987,27435,14259,462,82,486,34798],"class_list":{"0":"post-161109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-harrison-bader","11":"tag-leodalis-de-vries","12":"tag-mackenzie-gore","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-steven-kwan","16":"tag-xander-bogaerts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}