Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
MIAMI, FLORIDA – SEPTEMBER 18: Luis Arraez #3 of the Miami Marlins hits a single to make 200 hits … [+]
The first major trade of the MLB season arrived last night. The Miami Marlins sent two-time batting champion Luis Arraez to the San Diego Padres for four minor leaguers.
No one is more adept at putting bat to ball than Arraez. The 27-year-old second baseman has a .324 career batting average with 180 walks and only 176 strikeouts over his six-year career. His 7.5% strikeout rate is by far the best in MLB since he debuted in 2019, with no one else below 9.3%. The only other qualified players in that timeframe with more walks than strikeouts are Alex Bregman and Juan Soto.
He led the American League with a .316 batting average for the Minnesota Twins in 2022, then was traded to Miami where he hit .354 last year. This season, he has a .299/.347/.372 slash line and has yet to hit a home run. He has a $10.6 million salary and two more years of arbitration eligibility before reaching free agency.
He will fill the Padres’ opening at designated hitter. Manny Machado was restricted to DH duties for the first few weeks of the year as he recovered from offseason surgery, but has transitioned back to his customary third base spot. Arraez is primarily a second baseman and has some experience at first base, but is a poorly-rated defender. Over his career, he has -46 Outs Above Average according to Statcast. Xander Bogaerts is the everyday second baseman in San Diego and Jake Cronenworth plays first.
Arraez will likely bat at the top of the order and provide a more conventional leadoff hitter than Jurickson Profar. That will bump a rotating cast of bench players, such as Tyler Wade and Graham Pauley, out of a regular spot in the lineup.
The Padres are 17-18, sitting in second place in the NL West. FanGraphs lists their playoff odds at 47.1%. Arraez gives them a greater offensive threat, which will bolster their chances of playing in October. It’s rare for teams to swing a major trade so early in the year, and this strengthens their roster nearly two months before trade talks intensify around the league.
On the other side, the Marlins are 9-25. The only other teams that haven’t reached ten wins yet are the 8-24 Colorado Rockies and 6-26 Chicago White Sox. Injuries have already dashed their chances of competing this season, especially to their starting pitching. Sandy Alcantara and Eury Pérez will miss the entire season, and they currently have 11 players on the IL.
Still, they finished 84-78 and made the playoffs just last year. Trading Arraez signifies the front office doesn’t think this is only a one-year blip for a franchise that had been trending upward. He could’ve anchored their batting order through 2026 before reaching free agency.
The three prospects they received in return are outfielders Dillon Head and Jakob Marsee as well as first baseman Nathan Martorella. MLB Pipeline ranked them the sixth, ninth, and 13th best prospects in the Padres’ system. Head is in Low-A while Marsee and Martorella play in Double-A.
The fourth player they received is reliever Woo-Suk Go, who was included in the package to offset salary. The Padres signed him out of Korea this offseason to a two-year, $4.5 million deal, but he failed to make the club out of spring training. He has allowed seven runs and 18 baserunners in 12 1/3 innings in Double-A this year.
Prior to the trade, the Padres had a payroll of $165.5 million, but their competitive balance tax assessment was $226.7 million. Acquiring Arraez brings them much closer to the first tax threshold of $237 million. The team intends to stay under that limbo bar, which prompted the Soto trade this offseason along with their decision to let Blake Snell, Josh Hader, and several other key pitchers walk away in free agency.
The trade is a juxtaposition of philosophies. The Padres are still adding to their roster despite their self-imposed financial restriction, striving to reach the postseason this year and beyond. Even though Miami isn’t going anywhere in 2024, they could still regroup for the 2025 season. Instead, they shed their best hitter who still had multiple years of team control. Throughout the 31-year history of the franchise, it seems that whenever they have the choice between loading up or backing down, they always choose the cheaper option.
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SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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When John Resnick opened Campfire on a quaint little street in Carlsbad, Calif., in 2016, some locals weren’t sure what to think. The coastal enclave wasn’t exactly awash in innovative, chef-driven establishments, so it was a shock to see the dining room consistently full. Early on, one woman wondered aloud to Resnick, “Where did all these people come from?”
It’s a moment he remembers vividly. “I was struck by her statement, because I think she was surprised that so many other people in Carlsbad were there,” Resnick says.
The rest of the culinary world would take some time to catch up to what was happening. In 2019, when Michelin expanded to rate restaurants throughout all of California—not just the San Francisco area—Addison was the only one in San Diego to earn a star. But since emerging from the pandemic, the region’s food scene has grown dramatically. Driven by outstanding farms, ingredients, a bumper crop of talented chefs, and a G.D.P. approximately the size of New Zealand or Greece, San Diego County has become one of America’s most underrated dining destinations.
Campfire’s octopus, chorizo, and celery-root entrée.
Gage Forster
Perhaps no single restaurant is a better emblem for this shift than chef William Bradley’s Addison, which opened in 2006. After landing his first star, Bradley knew he wanted more. To get them, he transformed his French-leaning fare to serve what he calls California Gastronomy, which combines the cultures of SoCal with impeccable ingredients and wildly impressive techniques, prizing flavor over flair. Michelin responded, awarding Addison a second star in 2022, and making it the first Southern California three-star restaurant just a year later. The accolade has created a halo effect, attracting culinary tourists from around the world.
Berry beet tartlets at San Diego’s three-star stalwart Addison.
Eric Wolfinger
“Earning three stars forces the global dining community to pay attention to a place that may not have been on their radar before,” says chef Eric Bost, a partner in Resnick’s four Carlsbad establishments.
Resnick recruited Bost, who spent time at award-winning outposts of Restaurant Guy Savoy, to run Jeune et Jolie, which he led to a star in 2021. They’ve since taken over an old boogie-board factory down the street and converted it to an all-day restaurant and bakery, Wildland. The space also hosts an exquisite tasting-counter experience called Lilo, which was given a Michelin star mere months after opening in April 2025. And as Resnick and Bost grew their successful Carlsbad operation, chef Roberto Alcocer earned a Michelin star for his Mexican fine-dining spot Valle in nearby Oceanside.
The stylish tasting counter at Michelin one-star Lilo in Carlsbad.
Kimberly Motos
About 25 miles to the south, another affluent coastal community is going through its own culinary glow up. In La Jolla, chef Tara Monsod and the hospitality group Puffer Malarkey Collective opened the stylish French steakhouse Le Coq. Chef Erik Anderson, formerly of Michelin two-star Coi, is preparing to launch Roseacre. And last year, Per Se alums Elijah Arizmendi and Brian Hung left New York to open the elegant tasting-menu restaurant Lucien, lured by the ingredients they’d get to serve. “A major reason we chose San Diego is the quality and diversity of the produce,” Arizmendi explains. “San Diego County has more small farms than anywhere else in the U.S., and its many microclimates allow farmers to grow an incredible range of ingredients year-round.”
Wildland’s spicy Italian sandwich.
Gage Forster
Chef Travis Swikard has also been a tireless advocate for the region’s ingredients since he returned to San Diego, his hometown, and opened Mediterranean-influenced Callie in 2021. There’s no sophomore slump with his latest effort, the French Riviera–inspired Fleurette in La Jolla, where he’s serving his take on classics like leeks vinaigrette and his San Diego “Bouillabaisse” with local red sheepshead fish and spiny lobster. Its food is bright, produce-driven, and attentive in execution, while the dining room maintains a relaxed and unpretentious style of service. And Swikard sees that approach cohering into a regional style with a strong network of professionals behind it.
“It’s really nice that we are developing our own identity, not trying to be like L.A. or any other market, just highlighting what’s great about the San Diego lifestyle and ingredients,” he says. “Similar to New York, a chef community is starting to develop where chefs are supporting each other. There is a true sense of pride to be cooking here.”
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