San Diego Padres

58 seasons · 1969–2026 · 4,290–4,854 (.469) · 2 pennants · 0 World Series

Season by season

58 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	NL	—	73	65	.529	—	—	—
2025	NL	W	90	72	.556	2nd	702	621	Wild card
2024	NL	W	93	69	.574	2nd	760	669	Wild card
2023	NL	W	82	80	.506	3rd	752	648
2022	NL	W	89	73	.549	2nd	705	660	Wild card
2021	NL	W	79	83	.488	3rd	729	708
2020	NL	W	37	23	.617	2nd	325	241	Wild card
2019	NL	W	70	92	.432	5th	682	789
2018	NL	W	66	96	.407	5th	617	767
2017	NL	W	71	91	.438	4th	604	816
2016	NL	W	68	94	.420	5th	686	770
2015	NL	W	74	88	.457	4th	650	731
2014	NL	W	77	85	.475	3rd	535	577
2013	NL	W	76	86	.469	3rd	618	700
2012	NL	W	76	86	.469	4th	651	710
2011	NL	W	71	91	.438	5th	593	611
2010	NL	W	90	72	.556	2nd	665	581
2009	NL	W	75	87	.463	4th	638	769
2008	NL	W	63	99	.389	5th	637	764
2007	NL	W	89	74	.546	3rd	741	666
2006	NL	W	88	74	.543	1st	731	679	Division
2005	NL	W	82	80	.506	1st	684	726	Division
2004	NL	W	87	75	.537	3rd	768	705
2003	NL	W	64	98	.395	5th	678	831
2002	NL	W	66	96	.407	5th	662	815
2001	NL	W	79	83	.488	4th	789	812
2000	NL	W	76	86	.469	5th	752	815
1999	NL	W	74	88	.457	4th	710	781
1998	NL	W	98	64	.605	1st	749	635	Pennant
1997	NL	W	76	86	.469	4th	795	891
1996	NL	W	91	71	.562	1st	771	682	Division
1995	NL	W	70	74	.486	3rd	668	672
1994	NL	W	47	70	.402	4th	479	531
1993	NL	W	61	101	.377	7th	679	772
1992	NL	W	82	80	.506	3rd	617	636
1991	NL	W	84	78	.519	3rd	636	646
1990	NL	W	75	87	.463	4th	673	673
1989	NL	W	89	73	.549	2nd	642	626
1988	NL	W	83	78	.516	3rd	594	583
1987	NL	W	65	97	.401	6th	668	763
1986	NL	W	74	88	.457	4th	656	723
1985	NL	W	83	79	.512	3rd	650	622
1984	NL	W	92	70	.568	1st	686	634	Pennant
1983	NL	W	81	81	.500	4th	653	653
1982	NL	W	81	81	.500	4th	675	658
1981	NL	W	41	69	.373	6th	382	455
1980	NL	W	73	89	.451	6th	591	654
1979	NL	W	68	93	.422	5th	603	681
1978	NL	W	84	78	.519	4th	591	598
1977	NL	W	69	93	.426	5th	692	834
1976	NL	W	73	89	.451	5th	570	662
1975	NL	W	71	91	.438	4th	552	683
1974	NL	W	60	102	.370	6th	541	830
1973	NL	W	60	102	.370	6th	548	770
1972	NL	W	58	95	.379	6th	488	665
1971	NL	W	61	100	.379	6th	486	610
1970	NL	W	63	99	.389	6th	681	788
1969	NL	W	52	110	.321	6th	468	746

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the San Diego Padres, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Tony Gwynn	1982–2001	57.7	2,440	10,232	3,141	135	1,138	.338
Dave Winfield	1973–1980	28.8	1,117	4,512	1,134	154	626	.284
Manny Machado	2019–2026	28.4	1,103	4,699	1,130	218	705	.269
Fernando Tatis	2019–2026	26.1	807	3,539	870	169	460	.277
Adrian Gonzalez	2006–2010	23.0	799	3,424	856	161	501	.288
Ken Caminiti	1995–1998	22.7	557	2,351	592	121	396	.295
Phil Nevin	1999–2005	19.7	835	3,405	860	159	581	.284
Nate Colbert	1969–1974	19.2	866	3,485	780	163	481	.253
Gene Tenace	1977–1980	18.8	573	2,094	384	68	239	.237
Chase Headley	2007–2018	18.8	993	4,004	929	93	422	.263
Ryan Klesko	2000–2006	18.2	828	3,333	786	133	493	.279
Terry Kennedy	1981–1986	17.4	835	3,239	817	76	424	.274
Benito Santiago	1986–1992	15.1	789	3,065	758	85	375	.264
Brian Giles	2004–2009	14.7	804	3,560	841	79	397	.278
Fred McGriff	1991–1993	14.4	456	1,914	461	103	311	.285
Gene Richards	1977–1983	14.0	939	3,805	994	26	251	.291
Johnny Grubb	1972–1976	12.8	513	2,043	513	25	145	.286
Steve Finley	1995–1998	12.2	602	2,640	662	82	298	.276
Bip Roberts	1986–1995	12.0	667	2,521	673	20	169	.298
Gary Sheffield	1992–1993	11.8	286	1,175	329	53	173	.313

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Jake Peavy	2002–2009	23.7	215	95	68	0	1362.7	1,366	3.26
Randy Jones	1973–1980	22.0	264	92	105	2	1766.0	677	3.30
Andy Benes	1989–1995	20.2	199	76	77	0	1298.0	1,081	3.68
Andy Ashby	1993–2004	16.0	207	70	66	1	1266.0	862	3.80
Trevor Hoffman	1993–2008	14.8	930	56	66	554	988.0	1,055	2.78
Bruce Hurst	1989–1992	14.0	129	55	37	0	907.3	613	3.22
Ed Whitson	1983–1991	12.0	241	82	74	1	1391.3	794	3.79
Joey Hamilton	1994–1998	11.0	146	55	44	0	934.7	639	3.83
Gaylord Perry	1978–1979	9.9	69	33	17	0	493.3	294	2.88
Eric Show	1981–1990	9.1	309	100	87	7	1603.3	951	3.59
Brian Lawrence	2001–2005	8.7	162	49	61	0	934.0	579	4.10
Tyson Ross	2013–2018	8.2	131	34	44	0	671.7	653	3.38
Kevin Brown	1998	8.2	36	18	7	0	257.0	257	2.38
Blake Snell	2021–2023	7.8	83	29	25	0	436.7	575	3.15
Yu Darvish	2021–2025	7.7	115	44	37	0	651.0	683	3.97
Joe Musgrove	2021–2024	7.7	98	37	24	0	559.3	585	3.20
Mat Latos	2009–2011	6.8	72	27	29	0	429.7	413	3.37
Dylan Cease	2024–2025	6.8	65	22	23	0	357.3	439	3.98
Adam Eaton	2000–2005	6.7	133	47	41	0	796.0	623	4.34
Dave Roberts	1969–1971	6.7	102	22	34	2	500.0	256	2.99

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any San Diego Padres player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Gary Sheffield1992 · 33 HR · 100 RBI · .330	8.6
2	Ken Caminiti1996 · 40 HR · 130 RBI · .326	8.0
3	Chase Headley2012 · 31 HR · 115 RBI · .286	7.4
4	Phil Nevin2001 · 41 HR · 126 RBI · .306	6.8
5	Cito Gaston1970 · 29 HR · 93 RBI · .318	6.7
6	Dave Winfield1979 · 34 HR · 118 RBI · .308	6.6
7	Tony Gwynn1987 · 7 HR · 54 RBI · .370	6.6
8	George Hendrick1977 · 23 HR · 81 RBI · .311	6.6
9	Fernando Tatis2021 · 42 HR · 97 RBI · .282	6.5
10	Adrian Gonzalez2009 · 40 HR · 99 RBI · .277	6.4

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Kevin Brown1998 · 18 W · 257 SO · 2.38	8.2
2	Jake Peavy2007 · 19 W · 240 SO · 2.54	5.6
3	Gaylord Perry1978 · 21 W · 154 SO · 2.73	5.4
4	Dave Roberts1971 · 14 W · 135 SO · 2.10	5.0
5	Bruce Hurst1989 · 15 W · 179 SO · 2.69	4.7
6	Jake Peavy2005 · 13 W · 216 SO · 2.88	4.6
7	Gaylord Perry1979 · 12 W · 140 SO · 3.06	4.4
8	Ed Whitson1990 · 14 W · 127 SO · 2.60	4.4
9	Andy Benes1992 · 13 W · 169 SO · 3.35	4.3
10	Randy Jones1975 · 20 W · 103 SO · 2.24	4.3

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1969 to 2026. That is 58 of them, 4,290–4,854 in all, a winning percentage of .469. No World Series yet.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1969 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1998 and 1969. The 1998 club went 98–64 (.605); the 1969 club went 52–110 (.321). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the San Diego Padres careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.