As we officially enter the 2020’s, let’s look back position by position into the San Diego Padres during the 2010s.
The San Diego Padres have not made the postseason since 2006, but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t have any good players on their team in the last decade.
Before I get into the All-Decade San Diego Padres team, let’s talk about three players that Padres fans might get mad at me for not including in this list: Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., and Eric Hosmer.
Hosmer and Machado are star players and they will continue to be in a Padres uniform in the next decade, so down the road, they will be representing first and third base in the 2020s All-Decade team. Tatis could be well on his way to being the best shortstop to ever don a Padres uniform for the majority of his career, but this team is based on this decade and Tatis played only in 2019, but he got injured twice which made him miss a majority of the season.
But this decade team is all about the players that had the biggest impact on the field for the longest period of time during 2010-2019 and the reality is Eric Hosmer has only played two seasons in San Diego while Machado has only played one, so there just isn’t enough of a track record of those players in a Padres uniform, and there are more deserving players that should be on this list.
Now to be straightforward, you might very well see Player A on the All-Decade team that played the same amount of seasons that Hosmer has played in San Diego, but the reason they would be on the team and Hosmer isn’t is because there is a more deserving player at Hosmer’s position while there isn’t at Player A’s position.
Without further ado, here is the San Diego Padres 2010s All-Decade Team.