Here’s the fifth annual edition (Five years? I’ve been doing this piece every year for FIVE YEARS now? That’s an eternity in blogging years.) of my must follow list for Padres Twitter. The Kept Faith asked me to bring back an updated version of this and I didn’t say no. What does that say about me? I don’t know, but you people keep coming back. So I keep going. And Twitter refuses to die.
From the official accounts to the bought-off, corrupted, clique blogs & podcasts, they’re (almost) all here. I’ve dropped the Miscellaneous category, as all it did was cause bitterness and jealousy from those who weren’t on the list towards those that were. Because ain’t nobody got time for that.
Grouped by category but in pretty much no particular order otherwise.
Padres Organization
- Padres
- PetcoPark
- PadSquad
- PadresCentral – Bill Center, Padres historian
- NicPat08 – Nicky Patriarca, benevolent Director of Content
- maddiegritsch – Padres social media wiccan
- jpro22 – Jeff Praught, Manager of Scoreboard Ops/Padres Productions
Padres Minor League Affiliates
- epchihuahuas – El Paso Chihuahuas, AAA-ball
- tdhagerty – Tim Hagerty, Chihuahuas play-by-play announcer
- missionsmilb – San Antonio Missions, AA-ball
- BurlySAM – Burl Yarbrough, Missions president
- SAMissionsRadio – Mike Saeger, Missions play-by-play announcer
- Ballapeno
- Storm_Baseball – Lake Elsinore Storm, high A-ball
- McCallStorm – Sean McCall, Storm play-by-play announcer
- ThundertheDog
- TinCaps – Fort Wayne TinCaps, low A-ball
- minorleaguenutt – TinCaps president
- Schack17 – TinCaps vice president
- John_G_Nolan – TinCaps play-by-play announcer
- TC_DustDevils – Tri-City Dust Devils, short season A-ball
- ChrisKingSports – Dust Devils play-by-play announcer
Current Padres Players
- TheRealHos305 – Eric Hosmer
- wilmyers
- austinhedges18
- Hunter_Renfroe
- spang19 – Cory Spangenberg
- TysonRoss
- FreddyJ_6 – Travis Jankowski
- LametRHP – Dinelson Lamet
- JoeyFuego44 – Joey Lucchesi
- paarking – Anderson Espinoza
- walker_lockett
- LuisUrias03
- tatis_jr – Fernando Tatis Jr
- JoshNaylor44
- SD_Southpaw – Logan Allen
- cal_quantrill47
Former Padres Players
- RJBBQ35 – Randy Jones
- KurtBevacqua
- mdloretta – Mark Loretta
- THoffman51 – Trevor Hoffman
- stevefinley
- gregvaughn23
- BoomerWells33 – David Wells
- tonygwynnjr – Spends his time nowadays as a Padres TV and radio color analyst
- chensley32 – Clay Hensley
Television
- FoxSportsSD
- Mudcat55 – Mark Grant, color analyst
- DonOrsillo – TV play-by-play announcer
- mikepomeranz – Padres Live host
- Sweendog9 – Mark Sweeney, Padres Live studio analyst and occasional color analyst
- heyscan – Bob Scanlan, dugout reporter
- NBC San Diego
- DerekNBCSD – Derek Togerson
- MJAcostaTV – MJ Acosta
- 10News
- BenHigginsSD
- 10NewsSmith – Steve Smith
Radio
- PadresRadio
- TedLeitner – Padres radio play-by-play announcer
- jesseagler – Padres radio play-by-play announcer
- EDEPORTEGA – Eduardo Ortega, Spanish language play-by-play announcer
- Mighty1090
- DSmithShow – Darren Smith, Mighty 1090 afternoon talk show host
- MartyCaswell – Darren Smith Show producer/reporter
- JordanCarruth
- DSmithShow – Darren Smith, Mighty 1090 afternoon talk show host
- XTRASports1360
- erniemartinezSD
- Judson1360 – Judson Richards
- The San Diego Union-Tribune
- UTPadres
- sdutPosner – UT Sports Editor
- annieheilbrunn
- sdutKevinAcee
- sdutSanders
- sdutkirKDKenney
- Bryce_A_Miller
- UTPadres
- berniewilson – San Diego’s Associated Press sports writer, ultimate bro, and always The Woirst
Websites & Podcasts
- MLB.com
- AJCassavell – Padres beat writer
- Boomskie – Barry M. Bloom, MLB.com writer
- madfriars – Padres farm system nerdalingers
- Gwynntelligence
- HJPreller – RIP, Padres Jagoff, you impersonator.
- ChangeThePadres
- Make The Padres Great Again Podcast
- 619sports – Craig Elsten, jack of all sports radio trades
- johnmgennaro