Padres News: Bob Melvin Sees the Irony in How San Diego Finished 2023 Season

Irony at its finest right here..

Over the last few weeks of the MLB season, the San Diego Padres finally looked like the team that everybody expected them to be all year. It took until the very end for them to put things together, but it was too late at that point.

To their credit, San Diego did manage to stay alive in the postseason hunt for longer than anyone envisioned, and they even made things interesting heading into the final weekend of the year. But their inability to win close games came back to haunt them down the stretch.

So, when the Padres were victorious in their season finale against the Chicago White Sox by a score of 2-1 in extra innings, it provided a little comedic irony. Manager Bob Melvin spoke on this after the game.

“A little irony there with a one-run, extra-inning game to finish it off with,” Melvin said, referring to the Padres’ MLB-worst 9-23 record in one-run games and MLB-worst 2-12 record in extra innings.

Per The SD Union-Tribune

For a team with so much talent, they couldn’t get the big out, or get the needed hit all season. It was a weird year all around for this team, and the results still baffle most in the industry.

The last-ditch effort by San Diego over the final few weeks of the season was impressive, but they also were playing some of the worst teams in the league. They can’t pick who is on their schedule, but their inability to take advantage of things earlier in the season cost them dearly.

“It’s been a really hard season for everybody,” Melvin said. “It feels like it’s been two seasons, to tell you the truth.”,

Per The SD Union-Tribune

Now they will enter the offseason with more questions than answers. It will be an interesting winter, to say the least for the Friars, and one where they try to figure out what happened, so they make sure it doesn’t happen again in 2024.