After eight seasons, most of which with the Milwaukee Brewers, Mark Loretta signed with the San Diego Padres for the 2003 Season, and he had the best run of his career as a Padre.

Loretta took over at Second Base for San Diego, and in 2003, he batted .314 with 13 Home Runs and 185 Hits, a very good year for him, but he had something better planned in 2004.  An All-Star for the first time, Loretta had career-bests in Runs (108), Hits (208), Doubles (47), Home Runs (16), RBIs (76), and the Slash Line (.335/.391/495), won the Silver Slugger and was ninth in MVP voting. 

Loretta was not able to recapture that in 2005 but did in 2006…though, by that time, he had already been traded to Boston.  With the Padres, Loretta batted .314 with 506 Hits.

The Hall of Fame career of Roberto Alomar began in 1988 with the San Diego Padres, and he did not take long to prove he was a star on the rise.

Alomar was fifth in Rookie of the Year voting, batting .266 with 145 Hits.  Improving that to 184 Hits and a .295 Average, Alomar swiped 42 bases, his high as a Padre.  A good defensive player, Alomar did not win a Gold Glove but was worthy of consideration during his stay in San Diego.  Alomar went to his first All-Star Game in 1990, again batting over .280, but this was his last year in Southern California.

Alomar was traded to Toronto after the 1991 Season, and would achieve greater success, winning two World Series Rings and multiple All-Stars.  He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.

Dave Dravecky began his baseball career with San Diego in 1982, making the starting rotation during his rookie year.  The southpaw was an All-Star as a sophomore, with a 14-10 year, and he followed that with back-to-back 2.93 ERA years and helped the Padres win the 1984 Pennant.

Dravecky continued to do well, but the struggling Padres traded him to the Giants.  Dravecky contracted cancer in his pitching arm, eventually resulting in its amputation.  Dravecky had a 53-50 Record with a 3.12 ERA with 456 Strikeouts with the Padres.

Fred McGriff had a long career in professional baseball, blasting Home Runs everywhere he went.  One of those stops was in San Diego, where he was traded from Toronto before the 1991 Season.

The slugger played for San Diego for two-and-a-half years, and he did what he did as a Blue Jay, in that he was an offensive juggernaut.  An All-Star in 1992, McGriff led the National League in Home Runs (35), had 104 RBIs, and had an OPS of .950, a then-record for the "Crime Dog."

McGriff was traded to the Atlanta Braves in July of 1993, and as a Padre, McGriff secured 84 Home Runs with a .519 Slugging Percentage.