San Diego Padres Should Explore Available Free-Agent Pitchers

As per the Angels’ TV broadcast team today, there is a pretty impressive six-man rotation of available free-agent pitchers. The San Diego Padres wouldn’t be doing their due-diligence without kicking these hurlers’ tires.

While I was watching the San Diego Padres’ Cactus League game versus the Angels, my ears perked up in the 8th inning when the Halos’ color-commentator made a curious, but completely true remark.

He said, to paraphrase, that there is a pretty good six-man rotation of pitchers that are still without jobs on February 25th. He wasn’t joking. Jake Arrieta, Lance Lynn, Jeremy Hellickson, Alex Cobb, John Lackey, Kyle Kendrick, Scott Feldman, Clay Bucholz, Ubaldo Jimenez, and even…