It wasn't Garrett Cooper's fault the Padres didn't qualify for the postseason in 2023. A year that began with immense hype — a starting rotation anchored by Bla

The 2025 postseason is officially here as MLB's best teams battle it out for a shot at a World Series title. All four Wild Card Series begin today, starting with the Tigers and Guardians (1 p.m. ET on ESPN) at Progressive Field.

For the first time since 2020, the Chicago Cubs are back in the playoffs. They will host the San Diego Padres in a Wild Card series beginning Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley Field.

Machado and the Padres are back on the road for the first round of the playoffs, beginning on Tuesday afternoon when they face Dansby Swanson and the Chicago Cubs in the opener of their best-of-three series.

Well, the dust has settled, and the San Diego Padres will meet the Chicago Cubs in the Wild Card round of the Major League Baseball playoffs. Ideally, the Padres would love to field Ramón Laureano, Jackson Merrill, and Fernando Tatis Jr. in the outfield, but a fractured finger has derailed those plans.

San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt warns his team ahead of 2025 MLB Wild Card Series at Wrigley Field vs. the Chicago Cubs.

The Cubs and Padres split their regular-season series, with all six of those games happening back in April. Matthew Boyd pitched twice against them then, and it'll be the southpaw taking the mound as the Game 1 starter.

When discussing the team’s chief architect, not everyone is as complimentary. More than a decade after the Padres hired him away from the Texas Rangers, Preller remains a polarizing, win-at-all-costs executive who has twice been suspended by Major League Baseball.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/padres as Former Padre Star Says Dodgers or Padres Will Win 2025 World Series. Whether it's the Padres or the Dodgers, the World Series champion is coming out of Southern California, at least according to former MLB first baseman Eric Hosmer, who spent five seasons with San Diego.