Blake Snell is being traded to the San Diego Padres from the Tampa Bay Rays, per multiple reports. The deal reportedly will send Luis Patino, Francisco Mejia, Cole Wilcox and Blake Hunt to the Rays, and is pending medicals.
The Padres made a big move at the trade deadline to land Cleveland Indians starter Mike Clevinger, but Clevinger was slowed down the stretch, left his one playoff start for the Padres after one inning, and underwent Tommy John surgery after the season, which will cost him the 2021 campaign. The Padres have been rumored all offseason to have been seeking someone to head up their rotation in place of Clevinger, and appear to have found their man in Snell, the 2018 American League Cy Young Award winner.