Padres Spring Training Notebook: February 20- Padres drop opener 7-4
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A born and raised San Diegan, Diego Garcia is a lifetime Padres fan and self-proclaimed baseball nerd. Diego wrote about baseball on his own site between 2021-22 before joining the East Village Times team in 2024. He also posts baseball content on his YouTube channel "Stat Nerd Baseball", creating content around trades, hypotheticals, player analyses, the San Diego Padres, and MLB as a whole.
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