The San Diego Padres didn’t just add a reliever on Dec. 4 — they added a major comeback story. Ty Adcock’s road to the majors has been so chaotic, so injury-riddled, that the Padres might as well have signed a walking billboard for perseverance.
Adcock’s path wasn’t supposed to look like this. He entered college as a two-way catcher and hitter, only to be told somewhere along the way, “Hey, how about pitching full time?” Good call. His arm played, when it worked. The Seattle Mariners took him in the eighth round in 2019, and then everything that could go sideways… did.