Padres’ Matt Waldron seeks to keep it positive, not knuckle under in 2025

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Padres’ Matt Waldron seeks to keep it positive, not knuckle under in 2025

PEORIA, Ariz. — Matt Waldron stood in the Padres clubhouse on the first morning of spring training and recalled an afternoon a couple of weeks earlier back in San Diego. On that day, he had been seated alongside four teammates on a stage in front of a couple hundred elementary school children. Toward the end of the assembly, a student asked the players a question about taking care of themselves. Matt Waldron’s answer to the fourth-grader was par…