Perhaps someone forgot to tell the San Diego Padres they could join the ... The author of the first no-hitter in Padres history had a respectable 3.88 ERA and 1.174 WHIP in 19 starts last season ...

Dylan Cease's contract is great value, but it won't keep him in a Padres uniform Teams who have called San Diego about Cease's availability "haven't been rebuffed entirely," per ESPN's Jeff Passan.

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