The Padres did what they had to do at Monday’s trade deadline: bolster their starting pitching. Padres general manager A.J. Preller obtained Robbie Ray from the Giants and Casey Mize from the Tigers, who earlier shipped star left-hander Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers.
The pair prop up a rotation that has been limited at the front end to Michael King and Walker Buehler largely because of season-long injuries to Joe Musgrove and Nick Pivetta, who are now slowly working their way back to the club.
Ray, a veteran left-hander, was 10-6 with a 3.08 ERA in 22 starts for the Giants. Mize, a right-hander, was 4-6 with a 2.70 ERA in 16 starts for the Tigers. Both are free agents at the end of the season.
“Going into this we obviously knew we had a need,” Preller told the media during a post-deadline Zoom call. “These guys, too were lined up with what was out there in the market. There were a lot of starters who are going to be free agents at the end of the year. They have a lot of experience.”
Preller praised Ray as one of Major League Baseball’s top pitchers over the last 10 years and noted Mize was the first overall pick in the 2018 First-Year Player draft.
The Padres, at 58-54, are a game out of the National League’s third Wild Card spot. Preller said they/re going for it. The Padres were in Phoenix Monday night to open a four-game series against the equally competitive D-backs at Chase Field.
The franchise is in transition with the sale from the Seidler family to Jose Feliciano — the co-founder of a private equity firm and a European soccer club owner — and Kwanza Jones, a singer and songwriter, at a record MLB valuation of $3.9 billion.
That process is still winding its way through the commissioner’s office for approval by the 30 owners.
Despite all that, John Seidler, the Padres’ control person, and Erik Greupner, the club’s president, gave Preller a chance to slightly increase the club’s budget with the goal of winning the World Series for the first time in the club’s 57-year history. They’ve lost twice, the last time in 1998 when they were swept by the Yankees.
The Padres wound up taking on about $7 million in salary by acquiring the two pitchers: $4.7 million of Ray’s $26 million salary and $2 million of Mize’s $6.2 million salary. The Giants ate about $4 million of Ray’s deal, but the Tigers didn’t contribute to move Mize.
The Padres sent two prospects to San Francisco in return for Ray: right-hander Miguel Mendez and shortstop Joniel Hernandez. For Mize and infielder Gary Workman, they sent pitching prospects Kash Mayfield and Jackson Wolf to Detroit.
Preller worked hard not to part with any players on the Major League roster and succeeded.
“We always have a budget, and we always have a conversation about where we’re at on dollars and what that looks like,” Preller said. “Since I’ve been in this chair the focus has always been on the big stage and getting to the World Series. To do that you have to have resources, players and dollars. We operated this time just the way we have for the last couple of years – doing the best for the Padres and our fanbase about trying to win.
“Obviously at some point in the future, we’ll get to new ownership and see what that looks like, but for this week it was a very similar process to what we’ve done in the past,” he said.
Because of other injuries and lack of performance, the Padres have recently been going with a series of bullpen games in their last three rotation slots. The Padres’ starters have an ERA of 4.66, 27th in MLB, and the rotation’s W-L record is seven games under .500.
That’s now over with Ray and Mize stepping in behind King and Buehler. The duel returns of Musgrove and Pivetta would give the Padres an embarrassment of riches. But that still needs to be sorted out, and with only 50 games to go in the season. Musgrove has been out for 21 months after Tommy John surgery and other complications in his right elbow.
Pivetta has been out since April 12 with a flexor strain in his right elbow.
Both have been progressing lately through a series of bullpen sessions, but it’s not out of line to wonder what the Padres can expect from them when and if they return.
“We’re going to know a lot more here in the next three-plus weeks as they go through their programming,” Preller said. “This week they’ll go out and start to get into some rehab environments. The good news so far is their ability to face some live hitters. Velocity is going in the right direction. They’re feeling good, which is the best part.
“Their ability to bounce back has been encouraging. We know that when those guys are right they’re championship caliber pitchers. They are leaders in our clubhouse and getting those guys back will be a big boost.”
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