Oct 1, 2026 · 15 min · 13 segments
On this episode Christian Pedersen breaks down what the Padres will need to do with their pitching for the NLDS. --- Padres Digest is a YouTube channel dedicated to covering all the latest news…
The first game of our series is in Milwaukee on October 3rd, and it being in Milwaukee and on October 3rd brings up a couple of interesting questions when you see articles like this one projecting the NLDS roster.
Now, the roster has not been announced, and it is not going to likely be announced for a couple more days.
And in going through this article, there was really only one major change, and that was, you will notice here, Austin Hayes, after going, uh, the O for five golden or silver, platinum, whichever the sombrero's that one is, is being left off in lieu of adding another pitcher.
You know, you wanna make an argument, um, Randy Vasquez versus Kyle Hart, yada, yada, yada.
Uh, that to me is not so much the discussion piece for this video as much as the thing that's gonna determine everything is what the heck are we gonna do with this starting pitching? And it's not that it's like a situation, but the details of it being October 3rd and in Milwaukee sets up an interesting conversation to figure out what to do with this pitching staff.
And October 3rd, if you look at the calendar, would put Michael King on four days rest.
So he would be most likely to just-- If, if we're gonna keep Michael King on the normal rest and recovery, he would be the game two starter.
Him being the game two starter would also then line him up to be available come game five, should it go that long.
It also, being in Milwaukee now for the first two makes me ask the question out loud, given that Michael King seems to pitch slightly better at home rather than, uh, on the road.
Who gives a damn about those splits? Um, what do the Padres do with the rotation here? I think we saw with the Nick Pivetta outing last night that Craig Stammen is not afraid to go with a short leash and that, you know, really even with last night being a big bullpen game, yada, yada, for a couple of those guys throwing a couple innings, I don't think the bullpen got all that drained in our series.
So I think you can go game one and s- just start pitching it from a bullpen game.
But do you go Robbie Ray game one, given that the Brewers have a fair amount of lefties? And you gotta do the, hey, we hope that, we think that, we trust that, we want Robbie Ray to dial it back up to his old, you know, push the clock back to his old Cy Youngie big gamey self.
I think that if I'm going with anything, I would like to see Walker Buehler go game one.
The first game of our series is in Milwaukee on October 3rd, and it being in Milwaukee and on October 3rd brings up a couple of interesting questions when you see articles like this one projecting the NLDS roster.
Now, the roster has not been announced, and it is not going to likely be announced for a couple more days.
And in going through this article, there was really only one major change, and that was, you will notice here, Austin Hayes, after going, uh, the O for five golden or silver, platinum, whichever the sombrero's that one is, is being left off in lieu of adding another pitcher.
You know, you wanna make an argument, um, Randy Vasquez versus Kyle Hart, yada, yada, yada.
Uh, that to me is not so much the discussion piece for this video as much as the thing that's gonna determine everything is what the heck are we gonna do with this starting pitching? And it's not that it's like a situation, but the details of it being October 3rd and in Milwaukee sets up an interesting conversation to figure out what to do with this pitching staff.
And October 3rd, if you look at the calendar, would put Michael King on four days rest.
So he would be most likely to just-- If, if we're gonna keep Michael King on the normal rest and recovery, he would be the game two starter.
Him being the game two starter would also then line him up to be available come game five, should it go that long.
It also, being in Milwaukee now for the first two makes me ask the question out loud, given that Michael King seems to pitch slightly better at home rather than, uh, on the road.
Who gives a damn about those splits? Um, what do the Padres do with the rotation here? I think we saw with the Nick Pivetta outing last night that Craig Stammen is not afraid to go with a short leash and that, you know, really even with last night being a big bullpen game, yada, yada, for a couple of those guys throwing a couple innings, I don't think the bullpen got all that drained in our series.
So I think you can go game one and s- just start pitching it from a bullpen game.
But do you go Robbie Ray game one, given that the Brewers have a fair amount of lefties? And you gotta do the, hey, we hope that, we think that, we trust that, we want Robbie Ray to dial it back up to his old, you know, push the clock back to his old Cy Youngie big gamey self.
I think that if I'm going with anything, I would like to see Walker Buehler go game one.
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