As a disappointing season draws to a close, it’s a good time to look backwards then ahead with an eye to better baseball. There’s a crop of prospects banging on the door, and at the major-league level, people whose auditions for the 2022 season are worthy of attention.
This week against the San Francisco Giants, they managed to split the series, including big contributions from several of this season’s most valuable Padres in the two wins:
- Fernando Tatis Jr was 6-for-8 in the last two games with a home run
- Manny Machado was 3-for-10 with three RBI;
- Jurickson Profar helped greatly with three hits and home run
- Adam Frazier, the main trade acquisition AJ Preller made at the deadline, had seven hit in 10 at-bats
- Joe Musgrove had another quality start, his team-leading 15th
Here, in order, are the Top 10 Padres in value to the team, measured in Wins Above Replacement (WAR), per Baseball Reference:
- Fernando Tatis Jr – 6.