{"id":292310,"date":"2025-11-19T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292310\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:43:07","slug":"padres-select-garrett-hawkins-miguel-mendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292310\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Select Garrett Hawkins, Miguel Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres announced that they have selected right-handers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=hawkin000gar&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Garrett Hawkins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=mendez005mig&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miguel Mendez<\/a> to their 40-man roster. That protects both of them from being selected in next month\u2019s Rule 5 draft. San Diego\u2019s 40-man roster count climbs to 36.<\/p>\n<p>Hawins, 25, was the Padres\u2019 ninth-round pick in 2021. He pitched 60 innings with a sparkling 1.50 ERA with a massive 35.1% strikeout rate against a 10.1% walk rate. He\u2019s a pure bullpen prospect who returned from Tommy John surgery in 2025 with even better velocity and strikeout rates. Hawkins still hasn\u2019t pitched in Triple-A but is an obvious candidate to get a big league look at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez, 23, climbed through three levels this season, topping out in Double-A and posting a collective 3.22 ERA, 29.4% strikeout rate and 11.2% walk rate. The Dominican-born hurler draws plus grades for his fastball and slider \u2014 the former, in particular \u2014 but he has subpar command that still needs refinement if he\u2019s to continue as a starter. For the time being, the Padres have continued to try to develop him in a rotation role; he started 21 games in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres announced that they have selected right-handers Garrett Hawkins and Miguel Mendez to their 40-man roster. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,132013,132014,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-292310","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-garrett-hawkins","11":"tag-miguel-mendez","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292310","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=292310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}