Juan Soto has come and gone. The San Diego Padres don’t seem to have changed much. The Padres were 12 games over .500 in August 2022 when they acquired Soto in a blockbuster deal with the Washington Nationals.
New York Yankees’ Juan Soto gestures to teammates after bunting for a single during the third inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Friday, July 19, 2024, in New York. San Diego Padres pitcher Michael King is greeted in the dugout after the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Cleveland .
San Diego did finish with a run differential of plus-104 last year, and this season’s team isn’t on pace to end up anywhere close to that, but it’s still remarkable how the arrival and departure of an MVP-caliber player didn’t turn the Padres into a juggernaut and didn’t leave them out of contention.
Gore has been a rotation mainstay for the Nationals, if a pretty average one, and Abrams has become an All-Star. Together, they’ve been worth more wins above replacement for Washington than Soto was in his season-plus with the Padres, according to Baseball Reference. And Wood recently arrived in the majors as one of the game’s top prospects.
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