{"id":80904,"date":"2025-07-16T14:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=80904"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:58:34","slug":"padres-say-no-to-trading-top-prospect-but-their-young-catcher-could-be-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/padres-say-no-to-trading-top-prospect-but-their-young-catcher-could-be-available\/80904\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres say \u201cNo\u201d to trading top prospect, but their young catcher could be available"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-72\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"2322e5a7-cdb0-4184-868c-bd06280a1088\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words dark\">\n<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"306\">As the MLB trade deadline gets closer, teams are deciding which young players they\u2019re willing to part with, and which ones are completely off-limits. For the San Diego Padres, that decision has started to take shape.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"599\">According to <em data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"335\">The Athletic<\/em>\u2019s Dennis Lin, the Padres have made it clear that their No. 1 prospect, Leo De Vries, isn\u2019t going anywhere. He\u2019s ranked the third-best prospect in all of baseball and has become a centerpiece of the team\u2019s future plans. In short: De Vries is off the table.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"684\">But when it comes to Ethan Salas, their No. 2 prospect, the door might be open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"1042\">Salas, just 19 years old, was once considered the top international prospect in 2023 and signed with the Padres for $5.6 million. He\u2019s still one of baseball\u2019s most talked-about young catchers, but he\u2019s had a rough 2025 season so far. He\u2019s hitting just .188 in the minors and is currently sidelined with a back injury that could keep him out for two months.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1044\" data-end=\"1350\">Because of that, his trade value has dipped a bit, but teams that need a young catcher might still be interested. The Padres wouldn\u2019t give him up easily. Reports suggest he\u2019d only be moved if the return is a game-changing player who could help the team for years to come, not just a short-term rental.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1549\">San Diego is especially looking to improve their left field situation, and they\u2019ve also been linked to potential deals involving a pitcher or even another catcher in creative three-team trades.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1893\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With the deadline heating up, it\u2019ll be interesting to see if any team makes the kind of offer that convinces the Padres to part with their young catcher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the MLB trade deadline gets closer, teams are deciding which young players they\u2019re willing to part with, and which\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":80905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[30752],"class_list":["post-80904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-padres"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}