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August 13, 2022
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Even though there have been some good sized shortstops in MLB over the years like Jeter and Tulo, I grew up watching small and/or slender guys play the position like Aparicio, Campaneris, Maxvill, Kessinger, Belanger et al., so I routinely gawk at Tatis filling the hole at 6'3", 220.
If this had happened before the trading deadline, who knows what the Padres would have done to fill the void.
posted by beaverboard at 03:10 PM on August 13, 2022
Maybe they would have reached out to Detroit about Javy?
posted by NoMich at 03:20 PM on August 13, 2022
Third police probe launched into alleged junior-hockey gang-sex assault, this time in Quebec City
posted by tommybiden at 03:42 PM on August 13, 2022
I don't know what the Padres would have done if they knew Tatis was going to be suspended, but it might well have been nothing. There's been talk of moving him to the outfield anyway, where he'd probably take the place of Trent Grisham in the starting lineup - whether he'd play center or Profar moves to center and Tatis plays left (now that rightfield is handled by Soto) is up for debate. But, they've got Bell at 1B, Cronenworth at 2B, Machado at 3B (he could also maybe move to short and have Drury play 3B?), and Ha-Seong Kim is doing perfectly fine filling in at SS for the time being (he's not all-world, but competent).
posted by LionIndex at 05:36 PM on August 13, 2022
Alternate theory: the Padres did what they did before the trade deadline because they already knew what was coming, and in the future they'll trade Tatis off to get rid of his contract and re-sign Soto.
posted by LionIndex at 01:04 AM on August 14, 2022
San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. suspended 80 games after testing positive for PED