That's a wrap, folks. The Padres' 2018 season is in the books. It ended on a walkoff-strikeout to beat the Diamondbacks, which is the most predictably 2010's era Padres-thing I've heard in a while (see below). Speaking of 2010's era Padres, 2018 was more or less representative of your typical Padre season this decade: they were bad, but not the worst . They didn't win 78 games like I predicted all the way back in April, but they also didn't lose 100 games, which is also nice, I guess. Let's recap the good, meh, and the Eric Hosmer ugly in the year that was: The Good A.J. Preller was able to flip Brad Hand for an elite prospect in catcher Francisco Mejia. While the team now has a logjam of talent at catcher, that's never a bad thing, and more teams are beginning to use two starting-caliber catchers to their advantage. Despite some struggles with breaking pitches, Mejia's bat already looks legit- in one of the high points of ...