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Column: Padres eye deal with Fernando Tatis Jr. as unique money factors swirl [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
As financial factors collide like bumper cars at Coney Island and the Padres creep ever closer to the unrelenting Dodgers, they are experiencing a unique type of whiplash.
The pandemic bruised the books. The contracts of Manny Machado, Erik Hosmer and Wil Myers will chew up $70 million if they play 162 games in 2021. Stakes soared with a historic trade-deadline push. Injuries to Mike Clevinger and Dinelson Lamet spiked the need for starting pitching. Urgency to lock down electric shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. lingers.
This will be the ultimate test of the baseball operations department’s Gumby-like flexibility and creativity, under unprecedented circumstances. How do you balance getting better now, with the Dodgers in sight along the horizon, while ensuring Tatis cements his mailing address? All of it must feel a little like trying to play Tchaikovsky on the piano while wea