{"id":423348,"date":"2026-08-04T06:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:04:19","slug":"padres-tigers-trade-grades-san-diego-adds-another-rental-starter-for-postseason-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423348\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres-Tigers trade grades: San Diego adds another rental starter for postseason bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 MLB Trade Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trade<\/p>\n

Padres get: RHP Casey Mize and INF Gage Workman
Tigers get: LHP Kash Mayfield and LHP Jackson Wolf<\/p>\n

The Padres are gonna Padre at the deadline<\/p>\n

Padres: A
Tigers: A<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more proof that having the No. 1 overall pick doesn\u2019t always lead to much: hours after the Adley Rutschman era ended in Baltimore, Casey Mize is finished in Detroit. Mize, the top pick in 2018 from Auburn University, leaves with one All-Star appearance, a rebuilt elbow, a losing record and a couple of three-inning playoff starts. It\u2019s not what the Tigers had hoped for.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, though, Mize ended his tenure on a high, going 18-12 with a 3.44 ERA in 44 starts since the beginning of 2025 and allowing the Tigers to recoup future value from the always-aggressive Padres.<\/p>\n

By adding quality rental starters in Robbie Ray and Mize today, the Padres clearly have a better chance to squeeze into a wild-card spot than they did Monday morning. It\u2019s refreshing to see how badly A.J. Preller wants to win; with the way San Diego packs Petco Park, their fans deserve that kind of effort.<\/p>\n

In this deal, as usual, Preller gave to get \u2014 lefty Kash Mayfield was the Padres\u2019 third-ranked prospect, per Keith Law, before this season. With the Padres, though, it almost doesn\u2019t matter what they give up, because they just keep producing prospects and playing for today, and Preller finds a way to keep them relevant.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that there\u2019s a really rough hangover coming, given the bloated payroll and a farm system that seemingly exists to be plundered. But this is seven years in a row in which the Padres have been contenders, and it could be their fifth playoff appearance in that time.<\/p>\n

Do you know how many times the Padres made the playoffs in the first 51 years of their existence? Five. That\u2019s right: five in 51 years, and now \u2014 just maybe \u2014 five in seven years. The Padres won\u2019t be the favorites if they make it to October. But they keep on trying, and there\u2019s honor in that. \u2014 Tyler Kepner<\/p>\n

Each team picked a direction and stuck to it<\/p>\n

Padres: A-
Tigers: A<\/p>\n

From the moment they traded Tarik Skubal, the Tigers were sellers, and at the very least they owed it to themselves to maximize the return on their best remaining rental. They did that with the Mize trade. It may be devastating to their playoff chances this season, but that\u2019s the path the Tigers chose, and they were able to turn the last two months of Mize into Mayfield, a first-round pick who has good numbers in High A and got invited to this summer\u2019s Futures Game. He has upside beyond whatever draft pick the Tigers might have gotten for Mize this winter. Wolf is more of a project \u2014 he\u2019s struggled in Triple A \u2014 but Mayfield was the prize, and he was worth the cost of a soon-to-be free agent.<\/p>\n

The Padres also picked a direction this trade deadline. They could have gone the way of the Tigers and become sellers, but they decided to buy, and Mize \u2014 plus another trade addition, Robbie Ray \u2014 gives them a rotation strong enough to grab a wild card spot and just maybe make a run in October. These two teams are running in opposite directions, but at least they\u2019re not standing still. \u2014 Chad Jennings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 MLB Trade Deadline. The trade Padres get: RHP Casey Mize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1496,1334,74,76,75,2611],"class_list":["post-423348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423348","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=423348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}