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By Jackson Roberts
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Though it's been a relatively quiet offseason for the San Diego Padres, there have been a lot of under-the-radar moves that could eventually pay dividends.
On the position player side, San Diego's only major league additions have been inking third baseman Sung-Mun Song to a cheap four-year contract, and reportedly bringing in platoon outfielder Miguel Andujar for one year, $4 million. That relative inactivity could increase the odds that one of the minor-league deals it's handed out eventually pays off.
On Thursday, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported that San Diego was adding one more minor-league contract to the mix: 27-year-old first baseman/outfielder Leandro Cedeño, who agreed to terms with the Padres after spending the past three seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Cedeño often showed serious power potential during his previous years as a St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks farmhand, but never got his shot at the major league roster. He opted to head to Japan for the 2023 season, and posted a .709 OPS and 31 home runs in 229 NPB games.
Between Double-A and Triple-A in 2022, Cedeño blasted 32 home runs in just 123 games. He'd have a lot of names to jump on the depth chart as of February, but if he could demonstrate that same consistent power early in the season, he'd at least put himself in the conversation to make his major league debut down the road.
As it stands, Cedeño is an added depth piece for a Padres organization that so frequently trades away its top prospects that it's always necessary to keep replenishing the farm system.
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