Joint venture between ballclub, Point Loma Nazarene University is ‘what modern-day player development looks like in athletics’
By Jeff Sanders / San Diego Union-Tribune / Feb. 5, 2024
Frankie Montas signed a one-year, $16 million deal with the Reds in early January even after shoulder surgery limited him to one relief appearance last year. The Tigers will pay Jack Flaherty $16 million despite the 28-year-old flirting with a 5.00 ERA in 2023. Luis Severino (6.65 ERA), Kyle Gibson (4.73 ERA) and Lance Lynn (5.73 ERA) will all make more than $10 million this year.
Yeah. Arms are expensive — even those with middling results and questionable medicals.
“The market for pitching and starting pitching in particular,” Padres Assistant General Manager Josh Stein said, “it’s only becoming more difficult to find those guys.”
Stein was speaking outside Point Loma Nazarene University’s new biomechanics lab on its Balboa campus, some 11 miles north of Petco Park.
Inside, Daniel Camarena, a local left-hander again in the organization on a minor league deal, was demonstrating how it all worked — the readings delivered from the various motion capture, force platform and ball-tracking technologies — as part of Monday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. More than two dozen Padres pitchers who’ll report to big-league camp this weekend have already rolled through the biomechanics lab, and scores more of their minor leaguers will visit soon.
The Padres believe their lab marks the next great leap in baseball’s uber-information age.
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