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For years, the Padres lived on momentum.Big swings. Bigger names. A front office that refused to sit still. Now, ESPN has put a number on the cost. According to Kiley McDaniel’s latest evaluation, San Diego’s farm system ranks dead last in Major League Baseball — 30th out of 30 — and not by a narrow margin. The gap is wide. The verdict is blunt. And the timing makes it harder to ignore. Just two years ago, the ... Read more

Andrew Friedman didn’t sound distracted.He sounded deliberate. When the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations addressed his advisory role with the Los Angeles Lakers, the tone was steady, almost understated. No grand vision. No power grab. Just collaboration — the kind that doesn’t announce itself loudly but carries weight behind closed doors. And yet, the moment he spoke, the implications stretched far beyond a ... Read more

Andrew Friedman didn’t sound distracted.He sounded deliberate. When the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations addressed his advisory role with the Los Angeles Lakers, the tone was steady, almost understated. No grand vision. No power grab. Just collaboration — the kind that doesn’t announce itself loudly but carries weight behind closed doors. And yet, the moment he spoke, the implications stretched far beyond a ... Read more

In modern baseball, choices are usually loud.Numbers leak. Suitors posture. Markets roar. Shohei Ohtani’s didn’t. As reports and speculation swirled around interest from the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, the expectation felt automatic. Bigger markets. Bigger spotlights. Bigger money. The kind of gravitational pull that has shaped MLB history for decades. And then nothing happened. No dramatic bidding ... Read more

In modern baseball, choices are usually loud.Numbers leak. Suitors posture. Markets roar. Shohei Ohtani’s didn’t. As reports and speculation swirled around interest from the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, the expectation felt automatic. Bigger markets. Bigger spotlights. Bigger money. The kind of gravitational pull that has shaped MLB history for decades. And then nothing happened. No dramatic bidding ... Read more