2026 Season · KC Roster
Petco Park, San Diego, CA — opened 2004 · 40,209 seats. No league titles yet.
Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the San Diego Padres from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.
MLB players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the San Diego Padres — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes.
MLB players who wore the San Diego Padres crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises.
Every position room San Diego Padres has passed down, steadiest first. The 3B room is their most stable — 5 holders across 47 years, a new one every 8.2 on average.
Four franchise-defining careers: VAL weighted by attributed tenure share, with a bounded bump for verified Hall of Fame and recorded award evidence.
329 player-season slots overlap another club's recorded span and are credited to neither (19.7% of considered span evidence).
Monument Timeline — who held it, season by season
1969–2026 · 2 handoffs
The holder in a season is the player with the most accumulated era-adjusted value (VAL) across attributed franchise seasons through that year — whole seasons only, never a depth-chart claim. A claim needs 3+ attributed seasons; unsettled through 1970. Relocated eras carry forward with the franchise.
Most prominent 8 of 599 shown · all 599 P →
Most prominent 8 of 100 shown · all 100 C →
Most prominent 8 of 62 shown · all 62 1B →
Most prominent 8 of 83 shown · all 83 2B →
Most prominent 8 of 62 shown · all 62 3B →
Most prominent 8 of 68 shown · all 68 SS →
Most prominent 8 of 220 shown · all 220 OF →
Most prominent 8 of 10 shown · all 10 DH →
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within MLB — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
+1 more room with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1969–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
+121 more one-club men with the franchise.
+835 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.
58 seasons — roster, team totals and best players by VAL for each.
Best league-relative tenures in San Diego Padres history — OPS+ / ERA+ vs each season's own league (100 = average), counting only seasons with the club. Park-unadjusted.
Hitters · OPS+
Pitchers · ERA+