Tom Krasovic: Padres have an Old Guy problem, but it isn’t what you think

Tom Krasovic: Padres have an Old Guy problem, but it isn’t what you think

The Padres had an Old Guy problem this year, but — contrary to common perception — it wasn’t the Old Guy problem of 33-year-old infielders Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts playing on contracts worth hundreds of millions of guaranteed dollars. Machado outperformed his 2025 salary. At $17.1 million, the sum was much smaller than many of his salaries still to come — a thorny fact — on the $350-million extension issued by Peter Seidler and A.J. Pre…