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April 5, 2021 In January, we at FanGraphs put out a call for radio broadcast ratings. Over the past few days, we’ve released a compilation of those rankings, as well as selected commentary from each team’s responses. This is the last installment of that compilation. As a refresher, our survey asked for scores in four areas. If you’d like a thorough explanation of them, you can read the introductory article, but I’ll also recap them briefly here. If you’d like to see the rest of our re...

News 8 Throwback: San Diego Padres return for spring training season in Arizona In this weeks News 8 Throwback, we take a look back at the spring training seasons of yesteryear as the Padres kick off a month of play in Arizona’s Cactus League. Credit: KFMB Published: 12:55 PM PST March 3, 2021 Updated: 12:55 PM PST March 3, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Spring training kicked off Sunday for the San Diego Padres for a month of play at the Peoria Sports Compl...

January 17, 2021 Chris Perez didn’t get many opportunities to swing the bat during his seven big-league seasons. As a short reliever who played primarily in the American League, that was to be expected. Somewhat less expected was what happened when he did have a chance to dig into the batters box. “I had two [plate appearances], and I’m bitter about one of them,” Perez told me recently. “In 2008, my rookie year with St. Louis, we were in Florida at the old stadium, playing the Marl...

Padres broadcaster Ted Leitner retires after 41 years with the team Leitner has been a Padres institution for the last four decades. 01/15/2021 Ted Leitner’s long and distinguished career as the voice of the San Diego Padres has come to an end. On Friday, Leitner and the Padres announced that he was retiring from his broadcasting role with the team and would become a team ambassador. “I will miss everything about the Padres broadcast that I have been privileged to be a part of ...

share-square-600295 For 41 seasons, Ted Leitner has been an ambassador for the Padres as the radio play-by-play voice of the National League team. Starting today, that ambassador role comes with a capital A. Leitner is transitioning to the role of Padres’ Team Ambassador as he moves away from the radio booth to a front-office position. Known affectionately as “Uncle Teddy” to legions of fans who followed “My” Padres, through his words, Leitner will become involved in team-organized ev...