San Diego Padres: Roster Projections For Fort Wayne Tin Caps

In our next look at the San Diego Padres organizational roster projections, we will take a look at the Low-A Fort Wayne Tin Caps of the Midwest League.

Coming off of what could only be described as a Jekyll-and-Hyde season, the San Diego Padres’ Single-A (Low) affiliate, the Fort Wayne Tin Caps almost claimed a Midwest league title in 2017. This was despite having an overall losing record for the year.

The young Tin Caps started their season off slow in a poor first half (getting their feet wet) before going on a second-half tear that put them into the Midwest League championship series.

By the time this young team found itself to begin the second half, adding the likes of Michel Baez, and Adrian Morejon to the pitching staff, they had started to play really good baseball.

How could they not.?There was and is, way too much talent on their roster to not be good. Not with names like Fernando Tatis Jr., Baez, Morejon, Pedro Avila, Hudson Potts, Jorge Ona, and Buddy Reed in the mix.

San Diego Padres are doing something right

That’s a very solid combination of talent right there. And we acquired them all via different ways too. You see draft picks, international signings, and savvy trades. The San Diego Padres front office should be lauded for their drafting and development departments.

A.J. Preller and company have put together arguably baseball’s best and deepest farm system, but are developing it correctly, as well. That is a far cry from the ghosts of past front office and ownership groups.

Back then it would always seem like one or the other. We would draft well, and not develop prospects, or have bad draft picks at a time when our player development was good.

Not now, and not with this front office and ownership group. Not with the leadership, and stability here. And due to that stability, we are starting to see the fruit-bearing from the “Hot Talent Lava Tree”.

Beginning with this edition, the second of our look at the San Diego Padres organizational roster projections, will we really start to see how much talent this organization possesses.