What are scouts seeing from the Padres, who will take a 9-7 record into Dodger Stadium on Monday night to open a four-game series?
Here’s what I’m hearing:
On the club’s improvement from the past nine seasons:
“It’s about friggin’ time,” a National League scout said.
“They went out and got some stability and got some players with experience and it just made their younger players that much better,” a scout said. “For me, the trick is how is the young pitching going to come forward, but they have the experience in the bullpen, which makes their margin for error that much easier to cover with the young starters.