The San Diego Padres entered the 2021 season with the best rotation in baseball, according to FanGraphs. A big reason for that was Yu Darvish, who came over in the offseason in a trade with the Chicago Cubs.
Darvish started out the season pitching like the ace A.J. Preller traded for but he couldn’t keep it up in the second half of the season. If there was one word I could use to describe Darvish’s first season in a Padres uniform, it would be disappointing.
Darvish echoed this sentiment on Saturday.