Juan Soto and Josh Hader will be calling San Diego home following Tuesday's trade deadline, but do the All-Star additions make the Padres the front runners to win the 2022 World Series?
The Brewers lead the NL Central by three games over the Cardinals but had their reasons to part with Hader, who leads the majors with 29 saves and has a 2.48 career ERA. One of them is Devin Williams, their standout setup man who has a 1.72 ERA since 2020 with 206 strikeouts in 121 innings. The Brewers can confidently move Williams into the closer's role. The other main reason is Hader's salary.
The Padres, run by ever-aggressive president of baseball operations A.J. Preller, fill a big hole with Hader. They had been using Rogers as their closer and it worked for two months. He had a 0.44 ERA with 17 saves through Memorial Day. But he's allowed 21 runs in 21 innings since and was removed from the role last week. The next man up until the Hader trade was former Phillie Luis Garcia.
Hader has been surprisingly homer-prone this season, allowing seven in 37 appearances after giving up only six in 81 appearances the prior two years. Two of those homers were hit by Phillies in a stunning come-from-behind win on June 7 in Milwaukee. Alec Bohm and Matt Vierling hit solo shots to turn a one-run deficit into a one-run win.
The Phillies own the head-to-head tiebreaker over all three of the Padres, Cardinals and Brewers after winning each season series and that may end up mattering.
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