#Robert Suarez

The Philadelphia Phillies are one win away from the World Series. They will try to win the pennant in front of their home fans on Sunday in NLCS Game 5 against the San Diego Padres. The Padres are unlikely to go without a fight, however. They've already knocked two 100-win teams from the playoffs and have shown resilience throughout their run. Just…

The San Diego Padres look to even the series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. It's time to continue our MLB odds series with a padres-Diamondbacks prediction and pick. The Padres played great until the final inning of the game last night. Yu Darvish pitched excellent not allowing a hit in six innings of work. The Padres collapsed in the ninth…

Wednesday was an offday for American League Division Series action, so we only had the National League to watch. Both NLDS games at least made for compelling TV, and even better, both guaranteed at least one more playoff game in each series. The Dodgers and Phillies each had a chance to move up 2-0, but instead, the two NLDS sets are knotted up as…

Josh Hader first went two innings in his third appearance as a rookie in 2017. He went three innings three weeks later. By the time he was beginning to save games for the Brewers the following April, one-plus was a staple for the lanky left-hander. One-plus. Two. Two-plus. Even three a few times, including twice in the 2018 NLCS against the…

The last day of spring training has arrived. It's time to do one more roster prediction, since I hate to pass up a chance to show how wrong I can be. (Plus, hours after my last roster projection arrived in your inboxes, the Padres traded for Luke Voit. You're welcome.) There is a decent chance at least one more move is coming before Thursday's…

Coming into this game, both teams are in significantly different positions in the standings. While Chicago is down in the dumps, San Diego looks to take control of its division. See what we like in our MLB betting picks and predictions for Padres vs. Cubs. The Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres will meet up for a four-game series starting Monday…

If the BABIP gods change their minds, the Red Sox are the first in line. Last week, they inked left-handed reliever Joely Rodríguez, formerly of the Mets, to an incentive-laden, one-year contract with a team option for 2024. If he pitches like his peripheral numbers indicate he can, the signing should prove fruitful for Boston. Rodríguez will make…

This year's free-agent market for relievers was long known to be a weak one, and teams, knowing that, went all out to retain their best free-agent arms before they ever reached the market -- like Edwin Díaz, Robert Suarez and Rafael Montero. What's left, then, is a collection of older pitchers coming off mostly uncertain seasons. You might have to…

The San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres will finish the regular season with a three-game series in San Diego. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Giants-Padres prediction and pick, laid out below. San Francisco will miss the playoffs after a 107-win season in 2021, sitting in third place in the…

The San Diego Padres made a statement to kick off the offseason by re-signing reliever/starter Robert Suarez to a five-year contract worth a reported $46 million. Some will argue the Padres overpaid, but Suarez compiled a 2.27 ERA with 61 strikeouts over 47.2 innings in the regular season. He established himself as one of the club's most valuable…

The deal, which will pay Montero $34.5 million, has some people asking questions. There's argument as to whether Montero is truly an elite reliever or just the recipient of "puck luck," as they say in hockey. He's had good seasons and bad, it's true, but he's been primarily good since joining the Astros from Seattle late last season. A lot of his…

The San Diego Padres will continue on and the 101-win New York Mets are heading home. Sunday night the Padres dominated the Mets in Game 3 of their Wild Card Series matchup (SD 6, NY 0). Padres righty Joe Musgrove was dominant despite the Mets' efforts to throw him out of rhythm, and the offense seemed to pick up every timely hit. New York mustered…

The three-horse race many were expecting in the NL West didn't go as planned, as one team pulled up lame. The San Diego Padres went 79-83 last season, finishing just 4.5 games better than the Rockies and a whopping 27 games behind the second-place Dodgers. Keeping up with thoroughbreds isn't easy, but the Padres ran a bad race and it has left a lot…

San Diego and Los Angeles meet for Game 2 of the NLDS after the Dodgers picked up a 5-3 win yesterday. With two studs on the mound tonight, our MLB betting picks are eyeing the total on this game - read more to see where we lean. The Los Angeles Dodgers will try to take a commanding 2-0 series lead over the San Diego Padres when the teams meet once…

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers continued their season-long dominance over the division-rival Padres with a 5-3 win in Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, but Game 2 is set to be a showdown between a pair of veteran aces in Clayton Kershaw and Yu Darvish on Wednesday. Kershaw is looking to add to his postseason…

For the second time in the past three years, the Los Angeles Dodgers will take on the San Diego Padres in the National League Division Series. The Padres will be hoping for a better outcome than last time, when the Dodgers swept them in three games, while the Dodgers will be hoping for the exact same result: another victory on the road to a World…

World Series Odds: +3000 Pennant Odds: +1300 Regular Season Record: 89-73 Pythagorean Record: 86-76 Team wRC+ (Rank): 102 (13th) Starting Pitching xFIP (Rank): 3.87 (13th) Bullpen xFIP (Rank): 3.84 (12th) Odds via FanDuel Pythagorean record via Baseball Reference Stat rankings via FanGraphs It's been a strange ride for this version of the Padres.…

The National League Division Series is headed to the West Coast. The Padres disposed of the Mets in three games and will now fly back to California and face the Dodgers. These teams have plenty of familiarity as they played 19 times this season. Unfortunately for the Padres, the Dodgers won 14 of those games. In those games, the Dodgers outscored…

Just one season ago, the Atlanta Braves proved how important a team's bullpen can be in today's MLB during their World Series run. Postseason games can be won or lost by arms coming out of the back-end of the'pen and this year 11 of the 12 teams playing for the title finished the regular season with the top-14 bullpens by ERA. While some starters…

The betting market was high on the New York Mets for almost the entire 2022 MLB season. They were the betting favorites in 122 of their 162 games and closed -200 or shorter 40 times. According to Action Labs, only the Dodgers, Astros, Yankees and Braves surpassed the Mets in both of those categories. And for most of the season, the market sentiment…

In the summer of 2015, word began to spread among Padres scouts of a late-blooming Venezuelan humping a heater up to 98 mph in the Mexican League. Real. He'd never been signed by a big-league team, so he was raw. But he was already 24 years old and could move quickly. One problem: Competition in Japan had driven the price tag up to 50 million yen…

As the bullpen piled up a National League-high 688 1/3 innings last year, Pierce Johnson admittedly was among the Padres' relievers dragging at the end of the season. A year later, the silver lining is obvious after the 31-year-old right-hander missed 119 games in the middle of the season to an elbow injury. "It's a game-changer feeling this fresh…

I am stepping in to do several previews that would have otherwise been written by the witty Jack Sommers, so don't slam me for the lack of professionalism in this write up. Besides, you know who I am. :) The last time we played the Padres was before the trade deadline. We got swept at Petco Park...no, wait! We actually won a game, because Merrill…