Trade for Will Myers damnit.
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By Jon Heyman
Posted on*June 16, 2016
Wil Myers is looking a lot like the player who won the AL Rookie of the Year award in 2013, maybe even better. But sources say the San Diego Padres, intent on remaking their team, are even “open” to trading the emerging slugging star.
Rival teams have been eyeing Myers, wondering whether he might be traded with the Padres in rebuilding mode. Well, it seems San Diego is willing to talk about just about anyone.
While Myers has settled at first base after the Padres tried him in center field last year, his value as a young player with power is rising and high.
Through 65 games, he already has a career-high 14 home runs, one more than the 13 he hit in his rookie campaign. He has a career-high eight stolen bases and is hitting .281 with an .825 OPS.
Myers was acquired by the Padres in one of general manager A.J. Preller’s big early splashes. Just a little over three months into the job, Preller traded Joe Ross and Trea Turner to the Nationals and Jake Bauers, Rene Rivera and Burch Smith to the Tampa Bay Rays for Myers. Myers, a year removed from winning AL ROY, hit just .222 before becoming a Padre and .253 in his first season in San Diego.
He was one of baseball’s top prospects when the Kansas City Royals traded him to the Rays in the deal that brought Wade Davis and James Shields to Kansas City. Jake Odorizzi was also part of that deal to the Rays.
The Padres are 27-40 and in last place in the NL West 14.0 games behind the San Francisco Giants in the division entering Thursday.