Four years ago, I started a project out of, quite frankly, spite and disappointment.
I now feel a responsibility to maintain this thing I started.
Because the Padres Twittersphere is an ever-evolving entity. Players and people leave, sometimes even of their own accord. Some who have stayed have changed their Twitter usage to not be all that interesting of a follow anymore. Still others just seem to have given up the medium altogether.
Some do a bit of all of that, sailing off into the distance in silence, like a sailboat in the night.
So, here we are. The fourth iteration of my “Padres Must-Follow” Twitter list.
Grouped by category but in pretty much no particular order otherwise.
Padres Organization
- Padres – Duh
- PetcoPark
- PadSquad
- PadresCentral – Bill Center, formerly the Padres beat writer for UT San Diego, now the Padres official historian
- NicPat08 – Nicky Patriarca, Director of Content/Benevolent Dictator
- maddiegritsch – Padres social media maven
- jpro22 – Jeff Praught, Manager of Scoreboard Ops/Padres Productions
Padres Minor League Affiliates
- TC_DustDevils – Tri-City Dust Devils, short season A-ball
- ChrisKingSports – Dust Devils play-by-play announcer
- TinCaps – Fort Wayne TinCaps, low A-ball
- minorleaguenutt – TinCaps president
- Schack17 – TinCaps vice president
- John_G_Nolan – TinCaps play-by-play announcer
- Storm_Baseball – Lake Elsinore Storm, high A-ball
- McCallStorm – Sean McCall, Storm play-by-play announcer
- ThundertheDog
- Fast_Squirrel
- GlendonRusch – Storm pitching coach
- missionsmilb – San Antonio Missions, AA-ball
- BurlySAM – Burl Yarbrough, Missions president
- SAMissionsRadio – Mike Saeger, Missions play-by-play announcer
- Ballapeno
- epchihuahuas – El Paso Chihuahuas, AAA-ball
- tdhagerty – Tim Hagerty, Chihuahuas play-by-play announcer
Current Padres Players
- wilmyers
- FreddyJ_6 – Travis Jankowski
- austinhedges18
- Hunter_Renfroe
- Ryan_Schimpf
- ChristianBeth27 – Christian Bethancourt
- JabariBlash
- spang19 – Cory Spangenberg
- JoeyFuego44 – Joey Lucchesi
- paarking – Anderson Espinoza
- walker_lockett
- LuisUrias03
- JoshNaylor44
- SD_Southpaw – Logan Allen
- cal_quantrill47
- LametRHP – Dinelson Lamet
Former Padres Players
- RJBBQ35 – Randy Jones
- KurtBevacqua
- mdloretta – Mark Loretta
- THoffman51 – Trevor Hoffman
- tonygwynnjr – Now back with the Padres as a TV and radio color analyst
- BoomerWells33 – David Wells
- stevefinley
- DaveWinfieldHOF
- JakePeavy_44
- HustonStreet
- JGyorko05 – Jedd Gyorko
- chensley32 – Clay Hensley
- Decker6 – Cody Decker
- NickVincent50 – (Ex) Padres pitcher, grew up in Ramona
- MelvinUptonJr
- F_Rodney56 – Fernando Rodney
- TysonRoss
- d_no36 – Derek Norris
- TheRealMattKemp
- jonjayU
Television
- FoxSportsSD
- Mudcat55 – Mark Grant, color analyst
- DonOrsillo – TV play-by-play announcer
- mikepomeranz – Padres Live host
- Sweendog9 – Mark Sweeney, Padres Live studio analyst and occasional color analyst
- heyscan – Bob Scanlan, dugout reporter
- mmargaux8 – Michelle Margaux, Padres POV host
- NBC San Diego
- DerekNBCSD – Derek Togerson
- MJAcostaTV – MJ Acosta
- Fox 5 San Diego
- 10News
- BenHigginsSD
- 10NewsSmith – Steve Smith
Radio
- TedLeitner – Padres radio play-by-play announcer
- jesseagler – Padres radio play-by-play announcer
- Mighty1090
- DSmithShow – Darren Smith, Mighty 1090 afternoon talk show host
- MartyCaswell – Darren Smith Show producer/reporter
- JordanCarruth
- Make The Padres Great Again Podcast
- 619sports – Craig Elsten, jack of all sports radio trades
- johnmgennaro – Mighty1090’s resident nerd and master of all things podcast
- TedMendenhall
- XTRASports1360
- erniemartinezSD
- Judson1360 – Judson Richards
- sdutPosner – UT Sports Editor
- annieheilbrunn
- UTPadres
- berniewilson – San Diego’s Associated Press sports writer and The Woirst
Websites
- AJCassavell – MLB.com Padres beat writer
- Boomskie – Barry M. Bloom, MLB.com writer
- gaslampball
- madfriars – Padres farm system so-called experts
The Rest
- PadresUmp
- backthebrownSD
- Bobbycressey – Padres organist (bobbycressey.com)
- PadresFaithful
- ryanmtweets
- poglankford
- ParkatthePark
- CornfedFriar
- SanDiegoJosh
- RumorsandRants
- uniformcritic
- PunkRockPaint
- duaneharris19
- grumpyfriar
- tenthandisland
- daveperek
- taterz1021
- PadresGeekster
- ItsDis
- waldo_aaron
- timmer82
- VedderCup
- lonndoggie
- CT2SD
- Jeremy_Nash
- DancingFriar
- 10NewsCoronel
- SI_LeeJenkins
- stevepoltz
- MajorCBS
San Diego Breweries
- AlesmithBrewing – The creators of the outstanding .394 San Diego Pale Ale, Tony Gwynn‘s signature beer
- GreenFlashBeer – Supporters of the Bring Back the Brown movement
- IronFistBrewing
- HalfDoorBrewing – Nice pregame spot on Island & 9th
- MikeHessBrewing
- MissionBrewery – Three words: Hard Root Beer
The Bought-Off, Corrupted, & Evil Shill Bloggers
Didn’t make the cut this year? Do better. That’s the only advice I have for you.
Padres Public | Padres Super Mega Deluxe Twitter Follow List Episode IV: A New Hope.
