Padres Option RHP Ty Adcock to Triple-A El Paso in Spring Cuts

Ty Adcock pitched well enough to earn a save against the San Francisco Giants on Monday. Two days later, the San Diego Padres sent him to Triple-A El Paso anyway.

The Padres optioned the 29-year-old right-hander to the El Paso Chihuahuas on March 17, one of three roster moves the club made that day as spring training camp numbers continued to thin toward Opening Day. Left-hander Jackson Wolf and infielder/outfielder Samad Taylor were also cut loose, both reassigned to minor-league camp. The moves left San Diego with 51 players in Major League camp with just over a week remaining before the season opens.

The timing on Adcock was jarring given what preceded it. He had spent part of camp battling an oblique injury, and Monday's appearance against the Giants marked his Cactus League debut. He threw a scoreless ninth inning and earned the save, finishing a spring in which he allowed one run over three innings with three strikeouts. Manager Craig Stammen praised him immediately after that outing. "Great pitching by him," Stammen said. "Good to see him back out there, showed some really good stuff. Another guy that we got in our stable that we can count on." The option came the next day.

Adcock signed with San Diego on a one-year major-league deal in December 2025 after electing free agency following the season. He spent 2025 with the New York Mets, making three big-league appearances and allowing one run over three innings with five strikeouts before the Mets sent him outright to Triple-A Syracuse in late August. His career MLB ERA stands at 5.48 across 23 innings. At the Triple-A level in 2025, he went 1-3 with a 4.66 ERA over 36.2 innings in 31 games, striking out 35 with a 1.06 WHIP.

Adcock was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the eighth round in 2019 out of Elon and made his MLB debut on June 12, 2023. The Oxford, North Carolina native has spent the better part of his professional life bouncing between Triple-A and occasional big-league callups.

Taylor's reassignment was less surprising but no less notable given how he entered camp. The 27-year-old switch-hitter, who has appeared in 38 MLB games, posted a .233/.265/.300 slash line in 30 at-bats across 17 spring games, with five RBIs and three stolen bases. He entered camp in the mix for a bench role, but the Padres' early additions of Nick Castellanos and Ty France effectively closed that door. Wolf, also reassigned, was not credited with notable spring statistics in available reports.

Adcock heads to El Paso with a clear path back if injuries or performance create an opening in the San Diego bullpen. For now, he is another quality arm in the Chihuahuas' stable, available on short notice to a Padres roster that Stammen himself described as counting on him.