Clubhouse chatter: Padres talk about their first major purchases as ballplayers

Clubhouse chatter: Padres talk about their first major purchases as ballplayers

Jake Cronenworth signed for just under $200,000 as the Tampa Bay Rays’ seventh-round pick in 2015. In 2023, the Padres signed him to a seven-year, $80 million extension. Not even that altered Cronenworth’s reality all that much. He kept on driving his dad’s old Mercedes like he had throughout his climb through the minors until finally upgrading to a Porsche SUV following the ’23 season. Cronenworth bought his first house after last season. “I li…