The San Diego Padres built the league's best bullpen, a star-studded rotation, and one of the deepest casts of brand-name position player talent in 2025, and yet they couldn't even escape the NL Wild Card Round against the Chicago Cubs.
That was mostly due to the faltering of that supposedly loaded offense, which managed just five runs in three games against the Cubs. During the regular season, the team was shockingly incompetent at the plate for large swaths of time.
Among all MLB teams in 2025, the Padres ranked 28th in home runs (152), 18th in runs scored (702), 16th in OPS (.