The Padres Are Toxic From Top Down? 

Upvoting for the amazing reference

AJ Preller: "You're neither. You're a scout, hired solely to spy on my team's clubhouse."

@@DeathGrip1202" ...and when we went back, to Triple A, there was nothing there but a pile of little arms...I cried like...well, there's no crying in baseball."

And still nobody to this day knows what he does.

lolol always good bits

Yep, but Soto really is a part of the problem. I'm glad he recognizes the problem but if he's not walking or bombin it seems like he's not hittin either! That said, Soto has been more consistant than almost anyone else on the roster.

Sounds like the yankees

@@andrewaaberg482Soto is not the issue. You can’t have a walk rate like he has and also have a high batting average. it’s nearly impossible to walk 130 times a year and bat .320

@@Alan-rw3ezJuan Soto is 100% part of the problem .. for most of the year it seemed as tho he was trying to walk as opposed to getting hits .. he’s been watching pitches go down the middle all year (not very often lately) & the numbers prove it. He’s close to a career high in Ks , yet he leads the league in walks 🧐

⁠@@Alan-rw3ezwalks are not as valuable as hits tho. Of 6 the guys with .400 OBP, Soto is the only one way under .305. Too many walks have diminishing returns

That's exactly what I thought when I heard about this guy. As a Texans fan, God help the Padres

im from Australia and we have similar guys in our sports too. they are called "High Performance Managers" the HPM for Cricket Australia is some Olympic gold medalist in rowing. according to Cricket Australia website his responsibilities include umpire development, talent identification and sports science and sports medicine. before this appointment's he has nothing to do with cricket.

Without Machado, the Padres would be even worse. Machado has shown he's a leader. Machado stepped his game up when the Padres had injuries last season. My point is Machado isn't the problem.

That’s supposed to be Trickers job to tell them why lol

@@tomdiets5079 He's not there to show them how. Lol

No depth. They’re built around a few stars and most of the team is replacement level. Don’t believe me? Gary Sanchez and Austin Nola are their catchers; Sanchez is having one of his best years with the bat, but that’s fueled entirely by a ridiculous 7.3 homer percentage Jake Croenworth is the first baseman. Jake Croenworth is not a major league player at first base. You’re not winning anything if Jake Croenworth is the best you can do at first base. Bogey’s getting paid 27 million a year through his 30s. His bat has been in linear decline for years and he’s never been more than adequate defensively. Trent Grisham is a fourth outfielder, not an everyday center fielder. Matt Carpenter or Nelson Cruz would be a fantastic DH three years ago, but now it’s 2023. The starting rotation…yeesh. Seth Lugo, a reliever, has been forced to start all year and provided a little below average value. He’s also their second best starting pitcher because Yu Darvish has had one good season since 2017 and that was last year, Joe Musgrove missed half the year, Michael Wacha missed half the year, and the one young starter they haven’t traded has sucked. Again, a star (Blake Snell) surrounded by scrubs; even the bullpen is the exact same, with a single true standout in Josh Hader and a bunch of other guys who are decent at best.

@@warlordofbritannia The most successful teams over the last 15 years have been ones who focused on their farm system while making smart decisions in free agency. Even the Dodgers who try to buy their way into a world series, have had a top 3 farm over the last decade which has allowed them to inject superstars they develop into a lineup they enhance in the off season. Look at the Rays, who have not spent any money at all and field a product that has gotten them the 4th most regular season wins in the last 15 years. You win with a good farm system, and the Padres traded all that away just to play worse. The fact that they don't even have a guy in AAA who can take Grisham or Carpenter's job is horrendous.

Talent wise we are not fine. The problem is aj preller

I'd guess it's cuz everyone just throws him breaking balls cuz he swings at everything. These swings were just on FBs

Giving him only 3 per game is being nice to him.

The 2016 NLDS was his time of clutch

Yeah was gonna post that Jimmy doesn't need to apologize because every Rangers fan has known the bullpen has been just god awful since April lol

You’re right we should coddle everyone and uplift and just make sure they’re okay with their feelings and emotions. You probably think the mlb should hand out an award to every team for trying so hard this season too. Get outta here.

@@shawnmiller163 Yea, Manny is clearly a great leader. We can see the obvious results of his stellar leadership not just from his own personal performance (leading by example,) but also from the teams record-setting accomplishments this year. You have such a keen eye for details, those in your orbit are truly blessed by your insight Shawn.

​@@shawnmiller163u the type of dude to yell at your kids and then wonder why they dont talk to you anymore after they turn 25

@@andrewaaberg482you must have forgot he put the whole team on his back last season, played in a week after spraining his ankle that should have had him out a month or two. He’s played w a fractured hand, bad elbow and could shut it down but is still there. Manny isn’t the problem. GM taking the coaches role and telling them what to do is where toxicity comes from

@@trevortatham349That doesn't make him a good leader. Manny is a terrible leader. You can tell from any angle you look at it. The most damning angle is this season's results after Manny got paid. You don't need to be healthy to lead, you don't need to be on the field to lead, you don't need to be the best to lead. Manny is just not equipped to be a leader and that's okay. The team just needs to stop looking to him to fill that role, he has plenty of other value to offer.

San Diego sports team curse, just like the Chargers

You’ve never met the 2012-14 Detroit tigers

Please and thank you. Get Blander off the team and free up ~$30m per year

If you need someone to ground into a dp he is a perfect fit

The worst part is that anyone could have seen this coming-Bogey’s been in linear decline for several years, and two of the most similar players to him are Nomah and Hanley.

@@warlordofbritannia We'll see. I'm still jealous cause he was my favorite player. He was comparable to Nomar for like two years and otherwise he's a sub 120 OPS+ guy. He had a boneheaded WPA, but to be fair his BABIP was also way down this year. Which could be a sign of his higher groundball rate and lower line drive rate (kind of hard to blame BABIP on leprechauns in 2023) but it's also a RHH losing 60 games at parks comparable to Fenway. Still take him over Story 100 times out of 100.

Yes I just assessed someone with WPA and BABIP. It's your 11 year contract not mine.

Probably 7… that bastard. I’ll take the job though lol

That's my thinking too. Multiple all-stars in the lineup, all of them think they're the big shit on the team and none of them think "Hey, the team needs this at this point so I'ma try to deliver and move us on to the next thing"

@@andrewaaberg482not only do that have multiple all stars, literally all of their all stars are known for their huge egos, poor leadership, and bad attitudes

@@bluematter01 Let's take one half step back and remove Ha-Seong Kim from the negative assessment. Once he's clear, maybe 30 feet from the rest of the bunch, I say you're 100% correct and we should throw things at them.

imagine watching a video that explains the toxicity is in the front office and then making a braindead joke about the players

@@peterparker642 Imagine getting butthurt over a youtube comment.

@kermitfrog593 looks like I got you mad too. cry about it. what's wrong? out of cop out jokes?

@@peterparker642 Then imagine still being butthurt.

@@peterparker642wah they made fun of my boyfriends

There’s maybe five players on this team who are worthy of their role: Tatis, Machado, Soto, Snell and Hader. The other twenty players are either overpaid, overperforming, or overaged.

He needs to keep Ha-Seong Kim otherwise there's going to be a riot.

They don’t have an elite pitching staff-they have two great pitchers (Snell and Hader) leading an otherwise perfectly average staff in one of the best pitcher’s parks in baseball.

Ok dude their staff is a top five ERA in all of baseball. Elite / top five...whatever. Their staff isn't really the focus of the vlog or my comment but thanks for your opinion

@@jeremiahhawkins7688 105 ERA+, which is 15/30 teams That’s basically their whole roster: a couple of stars and a bunch of average to replacement level guys

@@warlordofbritannia Congrats on having the internet. We're done here

Manny really is such an incredibly unlikable character

No matter what, it's not good.

No because they'll have the same problem again next year - too many egos. Too many chiefs not enough indians. Too many guys worried about their own stat lines - not the team's record. Machado and Tatis shty egos aren't going to dissolve away over the off season.

@@fedordedov783 They only have more than a decade of Tatis and Machado. YIKES

100% agree. That’s why I roll my eyes when MLB establishment keeps bleating out the same line “the Padres are sooooooooo exciting!” Really, how? I see nothing appealing about them.

more players should be like Soto. He refuses to swing at balls and does what he can with strikes That’s literally the sport.

I heard he likes to cheat in basketball

@@shrekislove1509 I can confirm that you are lying 😂 he’s honestly pretty damn good.

That whole job he did nothing, at least he got paid. Remember when Kramer pretended to work for that company and got fired?