After the Padres’ splurge of money and prospects last winter, San Diego has retreated into a necessary austerity as it copes with repercussions from a 10-month drain of resources. It’s impossible to place an exact figure on how much dollar value the Padres squandered in their badly timed charge for the top of the NL West mountain -- some rival evaluators believe the appropriate guesstimate is in the hundreds of millions of dollars – and those mistakes were exacerbated by the team’s strange denial of reality at the trade deadline. Before July 31, the Padres should’ve moved to recoup some of the losses with trades, but instead masqueraded as a team intent on winning.
Starts with discipline (Insider)
