{"id":423234,"date":"2026-08-04T02:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T02:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:52:16","slug":"san-diego-padres-cap-off-deadline-by-adding-reliever-hunter-stratton-san-diego-padres-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423234\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres Cap Off Deadline By Adding Reliever Hunter Stratton &#8211; San Diego Padres Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe San Diego Padres had a massive deadline, acquiring two top-of-the-rotation arms in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rayro02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Ray<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mizeca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Mize<\/a>. After hanging on to their relievers, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=millema03,miller005mas&amp;search=Mason+Miller&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Miller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/morejad01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Morejon<\/a>, they continued to add to their bullpen depth as the clock struck midnight on the trade deadline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe San Diego Padres acquired reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strathu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Stratton<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Pirates, and then immediately optioned him to Triple-A El Paso. They gave up minor league reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=moore-012and,moorean02&amp;search=Andrew+Moore&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=padresmission.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-03_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Moore<\/a> in the deal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tStratton, 29, has only made three appearances in 2026. For his career (60 appearances), he has a 3.88 ERA (3.89 FIP) and a 14.6% strikeout-minus-walk rate, though he has struggled each of the previous two seasons. He is controlled for at least three seasons beyond 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEssentially, the Padres flipped a reliever who isn&#8217;t ready for big-league action for one who theoretically could be. What do you think of the move? Join the conversation in the comments!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/padresmission.com\/san-diego-padres-free-agents-trade-rumors\/rumors\/san-diego-padres-cap-off-deadline-by-adding-reliever-hunter-stratton-r269\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View full rumor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The San Diego Padres had a massive deadline, acquiring two top-of-the-rotation arms in Robbie Ray and Casey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[168877,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-423234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-hunter-stratton","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}