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Padres Manager Pleased To See Team Having to Fight For Wins

He hopes it brings out the fire in them!

Noel Sanchez

Padres Manager Pleased To See Team Having to Fight For Wins
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Your San Diego Padres seem to finally be putting together some form of consistency and even though every game isn't perfect, players are starting to naturally fall into their roles and numbers are going up. Yes, that Dodgers series would have been great to win but we get to run it back this weekend.

The Friars got themselves one of their more impressive wins this season as they took their match against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday 6-1. Both Manny Machado and Juan Soto came up huge against them and had some great at-bats.

They were looking far better than they did the first couple of weeks in the 2023 season and it's been very clear that if they both could return to their superstar levels that we all know them for, this team will be the scariest in the league.

Xander Bogaerts is already leading the team with six home runs on the year and is slashing .273/.366/.447 while Fernando Tatis Jr. already has four home runs. As longs the rest of the stars can get back to normal form, no opponent will be able to hang with them.

However, there is beauty in the struggle and it's better for San Diego to come across these roadblocks early in the year versus when the postseason is rolling around. Team manager Bob Melvin definitely agrees and he's admitted that a part of him is glad that the clubhouse has to work for their wins right now.

“I believe that,” Melvin, who has managed in eight postseasons, said of the power of being refined by fire. “Especially with the expectations, and if we were just blowing teams out early on, then you get to a point where things don’t go well and ... So sure, I’d like to see our record a little bit better, but we’re having to fight for everything we get right now. And I don’t know that that’s not a good thing.”

(Via The San Diego-Union Tribune)

Even though it is good to see our guys battle for it all, we will take a 6-1 win any day of the week.

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Noel Sanchez
NOEL SANCHEZ

Noel is currently in his third year at California Polytechnic University of Pomona and is pursuing a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Multi-Media Journalism. He has always had a deep passion for sports and writing.

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