Save for the last season of his career when he played for Oakland, Eric Show played his Major League career with the San Diego Padres, where he mainly played as a member of their rotation for a decade.

Show debuted in 1981, and by 1983, Show was a fixture of the Padres starting staff.  He would post back-to-back 15 Win seasons in 1983 and 1984, with the latter year seeing San Diego win the Pennant.  Show remained a middle-of-the-rotation guy for San Diego until 1990, never going to the All-Star Game, but always a serviceable asset.

Show would be a controversial figure in the clubhouse, not always popular due to his mood swings and far-right political leanings.  He also gave up Pete Rose's record-breaking 4,192 Hit, and he was not lauded for the way he stood cross-armed at the mound.  Show also struggled with substance abuse and would die at the age of 37 from an overdose three years after retiring from baseball.

While he was not a spectacular hurler, his longevity with the Padres allowed him to be the franchise leader in Wins (100) and had 951 Strikeouts with a 3.59 ERA.

Brian Giles was an underrated baseball player, amassing 1,897 Hits over his career, 872 as a Padre, the team he played his last six years and change with to close out his career.

Giles was traded in late August 2003 from Pittsburgh, where he was a two-time All-Star.  The Outfielder still had a lot left, and over the next three years, he secured at least 159 Hits, the best season being in 2005, where he led the NL in Walks (119), batted .301, and his .423 OBP was third in the NL.  Notably, he was ninth in MVP voting, his highest finish. Giles still had respectable power, belting 83 Home Runs with San Diego.

Giles' career fell off in 2009, and he signed with the Dodgers as a Free Agent but would not make the team.  He would have a Slash Line of .279/.380/.435 with San Diego.

A star at the University of Tennessee, Chase Headley parlayed his run as a Volunteer to a Second Round Pick in the 2006 Amateur Draft.  Headley would make it briefly to the Majors (with San Diego) the following season.

Headley began 2007 in the Minors, but by June, he was back in San Diego and would become a starter before long.  Headley showed gradual improvement over the next four years, first playing in Leftfield but moving to Third Base, where he played most of his career.  In 2012, Headley would have the season of his life, posting career-bests in Home Runs (31), RBIs (115), and OPS (.875) while winning the Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, and the RBI Title.  Headley was also fifth in MVP voting, the only year he ever received a vote.

After slipping back to his regular production in 2013, Headley was traded mid-year in 2014 to the Yankees.  New York would send him back after the 2017 Season, and Headley played back in San Diego briefly before he was released in May.

With the Padres, Headley contributed 87 Home Runs, 879 Hits, and batted .263.

Ed Whitson played eight of his 15 seasons with the San Diego Padres, over two stints, he first a two-year run from 1983 to 1984.

Whitson, who first joined San Diego from a trade from Cleveland, struggled in 1983, with a 4.30 ERA and 5-7 record, but he had a much better season in 1984, winning 14 Games against 8 Losses and reducing his ERA to 3.24 with a 1.180 WHIP.  He signed with the Yankees as a Free Agent the following year but returned midway through the 1986 Season.

Whitson did not have a good return, finishing the year with an abysmal 1-7 record and a ballooned ERA (5.59).  1987 was marginally better, but he had a solid 1988 (13-11, 3.77), and over 1989 and 1990, the junkball Pitcher had ERAs under three, a winning record (30-20), and led the NL in bWAR for Pitchers in 1990 (7.0).  That was Whitson’s last productive year in Baseball, as he regressed in 1991, and at age 36, was out of the sport.

Whitson had a 77-72 Record with a 3.69 ERA with the Padres.