The Fathers are off to a red hot start and are somehow keeping pace with the world-beater Dodgers.

Second year stud Jackson Merrill got things going for San Diego with this bomb to right-center.

He’s such a stud in every way.

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Turns out what I conjured up at night was happening just a few hours later.

Really, really weird timing.

I had nothing here with Merrill, this was just insanely coincidental timing.

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AJ Preller, is your burner following me?

Make it a little more obvious why don’t ya?

A+++ move by the Padres, even if they needed to see my tweet to pull the trigger.

Merrill is already a stud and only going to get better.

Merrill then gets to hit free agency at 30 years old and cash in for another huge payday.

Just a no brainer deal by San Diego who might actually be bigger spends than we were led on.

Dom Smith goes back in return.

Just get your money while it’s possible for you to and don’t try and be greedy.