BOSTON -- Nobody in the San Diego clubhouse preaches a process-oriented approach more than Manny Machado.

Sure, the Padres had begun the season a bit slowly on offense. But their at-bats were quality, Machado insisted. Their approach was the correct one. They were doing all the right things at the plate.

The countdown to the 2026 season is on, and there's no better place to watch all the action than on PADRES.TV presented by UC San Diego Health.

BOSTON -- Ramón Laureano, the Padres’ best hitter so far this season, delivered their biggest hit so far this season -- breaking open a tie game in the ninth inning on Saturday and sending San Diego to a much-needed 3-2 victory over the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

BOSTON -- Fernando Tatis Jr. has never struck out five times in a big league baseball game -- but he found himself on the brink at a frigid Fenway Park on Saturday night.

Tatis punched out in each of his first four at-bats, lowering his early-season batting average to .172. He

BOSTON -- These two things can be true simultaneously:

1. The Padres’ offense has been unlucky.
2. The Padres’ offense -- even when accounting for that bad luck -- has not been good enough.

On a pristine Friday afternoon at Fenway Park, San Diego dropped its fifth game out of seven

With the Minor League season kicking off, here's where the Padres’ Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

This page will be updated throughout the year with all the latest Padres injury news and transactions.

It’s often said “you never know what you’ll see at the ballpark.” Patrons in attendance for Thursday’s 3-1 Tacoma win over El Paso at Cheney Stadium got to see something that hasn’t been confirmed to have occurred in the pro baseball ranks in over 25 years:

Both

SAN DIEGO -- Late Tuesday night, after a fourth loss in five games to start the season, new Padres manager Craig Stammen approached bench coach Randy Knorr with a plea.

Stammen felt he wasn’t getting his lineup quite right. He was exasperated. His offense had underperformed, and he was exhausting himself

With games kicking off on Thursday at both levels of A ball as well as Double-A, and Triple-A entering its second week of play, the 2026 Minor League season is now fully underway. That means we can finally see all of our favorite prospects performing on the field.

We know it’s

SAN DIEGO -- On Friday night, Mason Miller watched from the bullpen as the Padres let an eighth-inning lead slip away. He never even got loose.

The season has just begun, but several pitchers put themselves on the radar with electric debuts.

Whether they are young hurlers that might be taking a step forward, veteran pitchers looking for bounceback seasons or unheralded pitchers potentially flashing a new upside, we had plenty of pitchers with impressive first games.

For

The White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 Draft, which comes with an assigned value of $11,350,600, the largest since the bonus-pool era began in 2012. Yet it's the Pirates who possess the largest overall pool at $19,130,700, another record.

MLB informed the teams of the updated

SAN DIEGO -- One turn through, the questions about the back end of the Padres’ starting rotation are as glaring as they’ve ever been.

Right-hander Germán Márquez was hit hard in his Padres debut, as San Diego dropped a second straight to the Giants, 9-3, on Tuesday night at

Which Minor League ballparks are worth visiting? The answer, of course, is "all of them." Minor League Baseball's 120 teams operate out of a wide variety of locales, within a wide variety of locations, and all of them offer their own unique charms. And every year, there are different reasons

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres dropped Monday’s series opener against the Giants, 3-2, at Petco Park. Jackson Merrill launched a two-run homer in the ninth to account for the entirety of the offense -- but otherwise, there wasn’t much to quell any concerns about the back of the

SAN DIEGO -- Man, it’s good to have baseball back.

Fun Opening Weekend at Petco Park. Sure, Thursday’s opener was a bit of a dud. But the Opening Day atmosphere is always top-notch. And I thought the games on Friday and Saturday were both highly

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres named Mason Miller their closer last month, the latest in a long tradition of elite closers in San Diego.

And any elite closer deserves an elite closer entrance. Miller debuted his on Saturday night.

It was a thrilling Opening weekend across baseball, but the fun is just getting started.

In the first full week of the 2026 season, there are several heavyweight matchups, including a battle between two of the top teams in the American League and a pair of other series on the West

SAN DIEGO -- Craig Stammen had only just moved from the Padres’ bullpen into their front office when he found himself in an executive suite at the 2023 Winter Meetings in Nashville, discussing the team’s potential return package in a Juan Soto trade.

Michael King would be the headliner in that

As we learned in “The Sandlot,” s'mores and baseball are a natural pairing. The Padres are taking that to another level this season with a concession item that puts a unique twist on the classic campfire snack.

SAN DIEGO -- Craig Stammen had a lead when he took the ball from his starting pitcher on Friday night. When that happens this season, the Padres will generally like their chances.

They’ve built one of the best bullpens in baseball. A year ago, they set a record by sending three

SAN DIEGO -- After recording four hits in Thursday’s opener, Tigers rookie Kevin McGonigle had eyes for his first big league home run on Friday night.

Jackson Merrill wasn’t having it.

The Padres’ star center fielder ranged to the wall and made an incredible leaping grab to rob McGonigle of a certain