Everyone is mad at the Padres

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We’re five days removed from the trade deadline, but things are circling back to one of the stranger deals of that period. It started as a somewhat questionable but mostly defensible deal that sent Andrew Cashner and Colin Rea to the Marlins for a package of prospects. Some saw it as an overpay, but that’s the market these days. Then, Rea went down just innings into his Miami career, and it came out that he had first let on about his potential injury when he was still with the Padres. Rea needs Tommy John surgery, and the Marlins were understandably upset about the development. They were so upset, in fact, that they wound up trading Rea back to the Padres for Luis Castillo, one of the prospects involved in the original trade.

None of this is new news, though. It happened before the deadline, and it appeared all were ready to move on. However, it appears the Padres may have been making a habit out of deals like this. On Friday, Buster Olney dropped a report in which he revealed the league is actually investigating San Diego’s practice of relaying medical information regarding players they send to other teams. It’s kind of a gray area in the league, as there are no clear terms for how clubs should handle this sort of thing. Still, the fact that Miami wasn’t the only team to have complained about this — apparently the Red Sox have found some “medical information” regarding former Padre Drew Pomeranz — and the fact that the league is investigating makes it seem as if San Diego is taking things further than most others.

Even beyond that, the Padres ownership group made even more headlines late in the week with some comments about former veterans who were sent away in trades. The bulk of the heat was directed toward Matt Kemp. According to ownership, he and “other veterans” displayed a bad attitude. To be fair, the now-Brave has carried that sort of reputation for certain periods of his career. With that being said, the Padres seem to be getting on everybody’s bad side, which isn’t the best look for a franchise that has been teetering on irrelevance for the better part of a decade.