Padres wishlist for surprising Dyan Cease trade revealed

The San Diego Padres won 93 games and secured a Wild Card spot this past season. They precocious past the Atlanta Braves earlier losing the National League Division Series to the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

This offseason, they are expected to prosecute starting pitching. But determination is astatine slightest a slim accidental that they mightiness research a commercialized of 1 of their apical pitchers.

Right-hander Dylan Cease is not expected to beryllium traded, but it does stay a possibility, according to Dennis Lin of The Athletic, who noted that if it does happen, the Boston Red Sox are a squad that could prosecute the ace.

"The Boston Red Sox, aft watching [Max] Fried spell the Yankees and [Nathan] Eovaldi to the Texas Rangers, are 1 of aggregate big-market teams bare for starting pitching. It is successful this situation that the Padres, according to league sources, are astatine slightest exploring the commercialized worth of Cease," Lin wrote.

Cease is successful his locomotion year, truthful it does marque consciousness that determination is astatine slightest a anticipation the Padres commercialized him. Last offseason, they dealt Juan Soto to the Yankees and received a monolithic haul that included right-hander Michael King, who is present 1 of their apical starting pitchers.

Boston would person to springiness San Diego a bully haul successful speech for Cease if they bash so prosecute him. Cease went 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA successful 33 starts implicit 189 1/3 innings portion striking retired 224 batters successful his archetypal twelvemonth with the Friars.

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