Padres Down on the Farm: The All-April Team
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The San Diego Padres’ minor league affiliates had a plethora of strong performers through the first month of the season.
Watching the Padres’ prospects develop and work to achieve the dream allows one to experience plenty of impressive performances.
With the opening campaign of the month in the books, here is a team build of (some of) the team’s most notable minor league performers from April, all in a handy YouTube video.
Here is a written overview of the team as presented in the video, with their April stats alongside:
Catcher – Luis Campusano (El Paso) – .308/.423/.615, 1.038 OPS, 6 HR, 16 RBI
First Base – Romeo Sanabria (San Antonio) – .333/.366/.500, .866 OPS, 3 HR, 12 RBI
Second Base – Francisco Acuna (San Antonio) – .280/.344/.500, .844 OPS, 5 HR, 15 RBI
Third Base – Zach Evans (Lake Elsinore) – .348/.410/.472, .882 OPS, 1 HR, 22 RBI
Shortstop – Leo De Vries (Fort Wayne) – .306/.378/..625, 1.003 OPS, 4 HR, 19 RBI
Left Field – Alex McCoy (Lake Elsinore) – .240/.304/.420, .724 OPS, 2 HR, 10 RBI
Center Field – Kasen Wells (Lake Elsinore) – .295/.404/.409, .813 OPS, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 24 Runs
Right Field – Yonathan Perlaza (El Paso) – .365/.404/.573, .977 OPS, 1 HR, 21 RBI
Designated Hitter – Trenton Brooks (El Paso) – .284/.419/.519, .938 OPS, 3 HR, 20 RBI
Starting Pitcher 1 – Enmanuel Pinales (Fort Wayne) – 4 GS, 1.45 ERA, 18.2 IP, 23 K, 7 BB
Starting Pitcher 2 – Ryan Bergert (El Paso) – 4 GS, 5.93 ERA, 18.2 IP, 21 K, 9 BB
Relief Pitcher 1 – Manuel Castro (San Antonio) – 7 G, 0.84 ERA, 10.2 IP, 19 K, 3 BB
Relief Pitcher 2 – Tyson Neighbors (Fort Wayne) – 8 G, 0.93 ERA, 9.2 IP, 18 K, 6 BB
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.
A 2024 graduate of San Diego State, Diego aims to grow as a writer and content creator in the baseball community.