Nightengale's Notebook: PED suspension needs to be a wake-up call for Fernando Tatis Jr.

The San Diego Padres don't trust the 23-year-old they signed to a $340 million contract last year.

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The Fernando Tatis Jr. apology tour began privately Thursday with the general manager and continued Saturday with the owner. Next up was a moment of reckoning, a talk with the people who could either forgive and accept him, or scorn and shun him.

Those would be his San Diego Padres’ teammates.

The Padres remain absolutely livid with Tatis for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs and getting suspended last week for 80 games, lasting the remainder of this season and the first month of 2023.

The Padres already canceled his bobblehead doll promotion, edited him out of their City Connect video, and scrubbed his face off the Petco Park mural.

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