On Wednesday, Padres beat reporter AJ Cassavell conducted an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. You can read the full transcript here . But these are the highlights (edited lightly for clarity and brevity):

What do you think our playoff rotation is going to be? Obviously Nick Pivetta and Michael King , but who follows them up in a Wild Card series? Does manager Mike Shildt trust Dylan Cease or Yu Darvish more?

Definitely Pivetta-King (or King-Pivetta if we see Ace Michael King down the stretch). Then, I like Cease in Game 3. Cease has been far too inconsistent this season -- even within his own starts. But one benefit of playoff baseball is that the moment Cease begins to teeter, you can go to your bullpen immediately. I think Cease's next few starts in the regular season will be

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