Is the Padres Timetable Sped Up with Machado Signing?

Since the Padres signed Manny Machado, does their timetable suddenly speed up faster now?

The San Diego Padres have not been very relevant for seven years now, but they just signed Manny Machado, who is one of the best players in the league, so their timetable should speed up.

The Padres have been declaring their time slot to begin winning in 2020 or 2021, but that was before the signing of Machado.

They were going to have Fernando Tatis Jr. come up and get his feet wet in the major leagues, and then once that happens, then they were going to bring up all of their pitchers including Chris Paddack, Logan Allen, Cal Quantrill, and MacKenzie Gore.

But adding a future Hall of Fame caliber player is definitely going to make the Padres front office at least think of progressing their prospects a little bit faster than they originally thought before the signing.

The process will be starting with the players at the higher levels of the minor leagues like Tatis, Paddack, and Allen.

If you paid any attention to the Padres last year, Fernando Tatis Jr. arguably was on track to make it to San Diego by the end of the 2018 season until an unfortunate injury occurred while he attempted to dive into second base in a minor league game last year.

With that said, Tatis Jr. is ready to make his major league debut on Opening Day, but won’t because the Padres want that extra year of service time.

Chris Paddack has not been able to get passed Double A in the Padres farm system, but you can make a case he is ready for the big leagues, perhaps not in April, but mid season. He has had around an ERA of 2 in each of three seasons in the minors, including a year with the Miami Marlins before he got traded for Fernando Rodney (who is not even on the Marlins any longer).

Paddack has the potential of being the Padres ace of the future, and one of the best starting pitchers in the big leagues in a few years, but the only thing that is holding him back is his injury history.

He underwent Tommy John surgery to repair a tear in his ulnar collateral ligament in 2016, so he did not pitch in 2017, so the Padres excuse would be to give him some more innings under his belt in the minors.

More from Call to the Pen

• Philadelphia Phillies, ready for a stretch run, bomb St. Louis Cardinals
• Philadelphia Phillies: The 4 players on the franchise’s Mount Rushmore
• Boston Red Sox fans should be upset over Mookie Betts’ comment
• Analyzing the Boston Red Sox trade for Dave Henderson and Spike Owen
• 2023 MLB postseason likely to have a strange look without Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals

Logan Allen should be and will be the first big starting pitching prospect to reach the big leagues, as his ERA has been south of 3 the last couple of seasons, and the Padres cannot use the excuse of giving him more innings in the minors like they could do so for Paddack.

Logan Allen reached Triple-A El Paso last season, posting a 1.63 ERA in 27 innings with 26 strikeouts.

With all of that said, the Padres need to speed up the timetable on their window to win because Manny Machado signed with San Diego for a reason.

He saw that the organization’s talent in the farm system in San Diego was going to turn out better than the White Sox and that the future is brighter than in Philadelphia, so the Padres front office cannot be stalling any longer.

They signed their target who will increase their amount of wins immediately in 2019, so the Padres need to bring up the top prospects that are major league ready right now instead of wasting seasons to ‘develop’ them in Amarillo and El Paso.