Briefing

It’s been a busy couple days in the Padres spring training camp: — Yu Darvish has returned to the Padres from the World Baseball Classic. — Former Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Jake Peavy and former owner John Moores will be inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame during ceremonies on…

Padres manager Bob Melvin opened Tuesday’s media session with good news on the injuries to Juan Soto and Austin Nola: — On Soto, who suffered a “mild” oblique strain while swinging at a pitch in a B Game Sunday: “We’re thinking it is fairly mild, which hopefully is the case,”…

Nick Martinez rejoined the Padres from Team USA Saturday night and manager Bob Melvin wasted no time getting the right-handed starter back into action. Martinez is pitching in a minor league game Sunday. “We had him ramped up a little bit before he was gone to the World Baseball Classic,”…

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An end to the plague of aimless marketing objectives. “In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.” - Samuel Beckett As if corporate communication wasn’t complicated enough, we now need to try to maintain it at a distance much more often than before the pandemic, through unstable videoconference…