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Jesus Castro dominates for @Storm_Baseball, Ethan Salas has a solo act for @missionsmilb, and the ACL club takes advantage of a very ACL night. That and plenty more - including live coverage from two games - in the Daily:
Imagine telling a #Padres fan in 2014 that one day, they'd make a local kid who threw the club's first no-hitter a $100M deal to become the fourth-highest paid player on the team, and it wouldn't be the team's biggest story of the day.
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Three years ago tomorrow, undrafted free agent David Morgan made his professional debut in the Arizona Complex League, allowing a hit and single in a scoreless inning.
Today, he punched out three in a perfect 1.2 innings to clinch the Padres' win over the Boston Red Sox.
We lost a few followers, but thank you to everyone who put up with us commenting on things other than baseball. All of us tried to stick to our personal accounts because we realize people come here for Padres Prospect news, but we are human beings before we are baseball fans.
Obviously De Vries is the headline today, but the Padres' long connection to Diablos Rojos continues to pay off as the deal with RHP Humberto Cruz, widely seen as the best Mexican pitcher in this year's class, becomes official as well. The 17-year-old should begin stateside.