Padres grab high school catcher, four college bats and three college arms on Day 2 of draft
could lose as many three starting pitchers and a closer to free agency this offseason. Their longest-tenured player, an outfielder, will walk after the season. Their aging first baseman doesn’t hit for much power and is sitting more and more often these days.
“Like every year in the draft, you’re always trying to take the guys you feel like are going to be best for you now and in the future,” Preller, the Padres’ president of baseball operations, said late Sunday night. “Ultimately, from our standpoint, you don’t want to be short-sighted. We want to look up and … the best players for us over the course of the next five-plus seasons, and there’s nothing really different this year in that process.
As such, prepsters Dylan Lesko, Robby Snelling and fourth-round catcher Lamar King Jr. figure to command most of the $10.1 million bonus pool the Padres will divvy up among their 21 picks over the three-day draft.overall pick is valued at $4.1 million. Snelling, valued at $2 million as the 39th overall pick, could go over-slot since he was in play on some boards, including the Padres’, in the middle of the first round.
After King in the fourth round, the Padres selected the first of two power-hitting first basemen in Cal’s Nathan Martorella, a 6-foot-1, 224-pound, left-handed-hitter who slugged 11 homers in his junior year.
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