10 Young Faces Who Can Immediately Impact the San Diego Padres

Anyone who knows baseball knows that the Padres are the definition of a small-market team. Small market teams bring up young prospects or buy veterans on the cheap, let them succeed, then trade them away when their stock is highest, or when they have to be moved because of either decline or an expiring contract (i.e. Adrian Gonzalez, Jake Peavy, Mike Adams).

One thing the former management team of the Padres were able to do was to get value from trades, most notably trading Billy Killian, Akinori Otsuka and Adam Eaton.

Billy Killian never played in the majors, Akinori Otsuka appeared in less than 70 games in his career in Bleacher Report - San Diego Padres
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