Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Thu 7/4/24 2:19 AM

Merrill went 2-for-5 with one RBI and one stolen base in Wednesday's 6-4 win over the Rangers.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill stole his first base since June 9. Over the 20 games between thefts, the rookie outfielder impressed, hitting .347 with nine home runs, 19 RBI and 14 runs scored. For the season, he's at a .293/.326/.458 slash line with 12 homers, 10 steals, 43 RBI and 39 runs scored over 86 contests while taking on a near-everyday role in center field.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Mon 7/1/24 11:39 AM

Merrill went 3-for-4 with a double and a run in Sunday's loss to Boston.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill was the only Padre to notch multiple hits in the contest, and he scored the team's only run after belting a one-out double in the seventh inning. The rookie finished June with back-to-back three-hit games, with half of his knocks during the pair of contests going for extra bases. Merrill swung a hot bat for most of the month, and he finished June with a .320/.346/.650 slash line along with nine home runs, 20 RBI, 17 runs and two stolen bases.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Sun 6/30/24 9:21 AM

Merrill went 3-for-5 with a solo home run, an additional RBI and a double in an 11-1 rout of the Red Sox on Saturday.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill increased San Diego's lead to 4-0 with a fourth-inning solo blast and capped the scoring in the contest with an RBI double in the eighth. The rookie has homered in back-to-back contests and in half of his past 10 games. Extended further, Merrill's power surge has included nine long balls over his past 16 contests, and he's slashing .333/.365/.817 with 18 RBI and 12 runs during that stretch.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Sat 6/29/24 1:07 AM

Merrill went 1-for-5 with a three-run home run in Friday's 9-2 win over the Red Sox.
EDGE Analysis
The rookie capped San Diego's improbable nine-run fifth inning by sending a Greg Weissert fastball over the fence in straightaway center field. Merrill's power has emerged as the weather has heated up -- while his 11 homers through 82 games is already good for a 21-year-old in his first MLB campaign, eight of those long balls have come in his last 15 contests, a stretch in which he's batting .309 (17-for-55) with 11 runs and 16 RBI.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Sun 6/23/24 9:45 AM

Merrill went 3-for-3 with a three-run homer and a walk in Saturday's win over Milwaukee.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill singled in his first at-bat before crushing a three-run shot off Carlos Rodriguez in the fourth to put San Diego on the board. The shortstop would reach four times on the night and has now recorded multiple hits in three of his last four games. He's also homered in three of his last four and in seven of his last 10 while posting at least one RBI in four straight.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Fri 6/21/24 1:02 PM

Merrill went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in a 7-6 win over Milwaukee on Thursday.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill hit the second of back-to-back homers with Manny Machado in the first inning to give San Diego an early lead. The long ball was the second in as many days for Merrill, who has surged in the power department of late, with six of his nine homers on the campaign coming over his past eight games. All six of those long balls have been of the solo variety, but it's still a positive development for Merrill's fantasy managers after he went deep just three times over his first 68 games.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Wed 6/19/24 5:00 PM

Merrill went 2-for-3 with a solo home run and a second run scored in Wednesday's 5-2 win over the Phillies.
EDGE Analysis
The rookie center fielder accounted for the Padres' only run off Ranger Suarez, driving a two-seam fastball from the southpaw over the right-field wall in the second inning. Merrill has eight homers on the year, but five of them have come in the last seven games, boosting his slash line on the season to .279/.317/.417 with nine steals, 30 RBI and 32 runs in 74 contests.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Sun 6/16/24 1:42 AM

Merrill went 1-for-3 with a solo home run Saturday in a loss to the Mets.
EDGE Analysis
Merrill produced the only Padres run with a solo shot to center field in the fifth inning. The rookie has homered in three straight contests, belting four total long balls over that span. Merrill has also notched at least one hit in nine of his past 10 games and is batting .351 (13-for-37) with eight extra-base hits, six RBI, seven runs and two steals during that stretch.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Sat 6/15/24 10:40 AM

Merrill went 1-for-3 with a solo home run in Friday's 2-1 loss to the Mets.
EDGE Analysis
The 21-year-old went yard for the third time in the last two games, accounting for all of the Padres' offense on the night with a fifth-inning shot off Sean Manaea. Merrill seems to have flipped a switch in June -- over the last nine games, he's batting .353 (12-for-34) with four doubles, three homers, two steals, five RBI, six runs and an impressive 8.3 percent strikeout rate.

Jackson Merrill
CF SD
Thu 6/13/24 9:35 AM

Merrill went 2-for-4 with two solo home runs in Wednesday's 5-4 win over the A's.
EDGE Analysis
The rookie center fielder took Hogan Harris deep in the fifth inning, setting the stage for Merrill to play hero by ripping a slider from Mason Miller down the right-field line in the bottom of the ninth for his first career walk-off homer. In the process, Merrill become the youngest player in Padres history with a walk-off blast, and the youngest player in MLB history with a two-homer game that included a walk-off shot. The 21-year-old snapped a 26-game homer drought with the performance, and he's been heating up in June, batting .355 (11-for-31) over the last eight contests with four doubles, two steals, four RBI and five runs.