Team believes it is equipped to have everyone chip in to breach the gap left by Juan Soto no longer being in the lineup
Throughout the spring, the Padres have stressed their vision that it will take a village to raise a trophy. One of the reasons, certainly, is that they knew they were not united in that aim in 2023 and that the lack of dedication to being the sum of a bunch of reliant parts contributed to a disappointing season. The other is because, well, it will take a bunch of guys doing their part to replace the offense that was lost when Juan Soto was traded to the Yankees in December.
A return to even close to norms by players in the primes of their career would go a long way toward making up for the loss of Soto. However, the glaring lesson of 2023 is that normal is sometimes elusive. And those five players performing at levels projected by FanGraphs in 2024 would only make up for one-fifth of Soto’s loss. The Padres, though, are not attempting to just “Moneyball” the void. There are multiple facets to their moving on from the Soto experiment.
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