The San Diego Padres , in every season over the past six years, have had grand World Series contending ambitions. General manager AJ Preller has certainly been aggressive in upgrading the squad, and this was the case earlier this year as well when he traded one of the consensus best prospects in MLB, Leo de Vries, to bring Mason Miller in , the hard-throwing shutdown reliever, to prepare for a postseason push come October.

Alas, the Padres will now have to watch the rest of the playoffs from the couch after they were bounced from postseason contention on Thursday night following a 3-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs in Game 3 of their NL Wild Card series matchup. It was a struggle for the Padres to score all series long, and it did not help that one of the players they expected to produce,

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