San Diego Padres Reach Deals With All Arbitration-Eligible Players

There is nothing like arbitration day to get you thinking that spring training is just around the corner.

Thursday marked the deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to come to terms on a contract for 2026. The San Diego Padres reached deals with all seven arbitration-eligible players, meaning they won't have any hearings this year. In fact, the Friars, under president of baseball operations A.J. Preller, have not had an arbitration hearing since 2014.

The seven players are right-handed reliever Jason Adam, first baseman-outfielder Gavin Sheets, left-handed starter JP Sears, closer Mason Miller, catcher Luis Campusano, reliever Adrian Morejon, and catcher Freddy Fermin.

All of the projected salaries below come via MLB Trade Rumors. For more on how other teams did, check out this MLBTR page.

Four players reached new deals, although there was no report of their contract figures. Adam, who made $4.8 million last year, was projected to make $6.8 million in 2026, his final year of team control. Sears made $770,000 in 2025 and was projected to get a raise of up to $3.5 million in his first year of arbitration. Miller was paid $775,000 last year and was projected to make $3.4 million. Fermin earned $781,750 in 2025 and was projected to go up to $1.8 million in his first year in arbitration.

Sheets will earn $4.5 million in 2026 after being projected to make $4.3 million. The first baseman-outfielder made $1.6 million in 2025 and has one more year of arbitration left before becoming a free agent. In his first year with the Friars, Sheets had a .252/.317/.429 slash line with career highs of 19 homers and 71 RBIs. Sheets signed just before last year's spring training after being nontendered by the Chicago White Sox, who had a historically awful 2024.

Morejon is set to make $3.9 million in 2026 after being projected to make $3.6 million. He made $2 million in 2025 and is set to become a free agent after this season. A very valuable left-handed reliever, Morejon had the best of his seven seasons with the Friars in 2025. Morejon had a career-best 2.28 FIP in a career-high 75 games. He has been a key element of the Padres' bullpen the past two seasons.

Campusano reached a deal to be paid $900,000 for 2026 at the nontender deadline in November after being projected for $1 million. That is a slight reduction in his 2025 salary of $1 million. Campusano enters 2026 as the Padres' backup catcher after spending most of 2025 at Triple-A El Paso. He only played in 10 MLB games. Once thought to be the Padres' catcher of the future, Campusano has fallen out of favor due to defensive shortcomings and an inconsistent bat.