Tom Verducci Previews This Season's First Series Between the Dodgers and Padres

SI's Tom Verducci previews the first series this season between the Dodgers and Padres; a matchup he calls the new best rivalry in baseball

Tom Verducci | Apr 16, 2021

The San Diego Padres had an extremely successful and productive offseason signing some of MLB's top-tier talent. This weekend they will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in a series for the first time this season. In today's SI Insider, Sports Illustrated senior writer Tom Verducci previews this weekend's series first series; a matchup he calls the new best rivalry in baseball.

Published Apr 16, 2021

TOM VERDUCCI

Tom Verducci is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who has covered Major League Baseball since 1981. He also serves as an analyst for FOX Sports and the MLB Network; is a New York Times best-selling author; and cohosts The Book of Joe podcast with Joe Maddon. A five-time Emmy Award winner across three categories (studio analyst, reporter, short form writing) and nominated in a fourth (game analyst), he is a three-time National Sportswriter of the Year winner, two-time National Magazine Award finalist, and a Penn State Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient. Verducci is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame, Baseball Writers Association of America (including past New York chapter chairman) and a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 1993. He also is the only writer to be a game analyst for World Series telecasts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, with whom he has two children.