The San Diego Padres are a Major League BaseballMajor League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates North American professional baseball's two leagues, the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure ...Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2005, the city has a population of 1,256,951. It is the second largest city in California and the eighth largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of San Diego County. and is the economic center of the metropolitan area, the 17th-largest metro area in the U.S. with a population of 2.9 million as of 2006, and the 21st largest Metropolitan area in the Americas when including Tijuana (See San ...San Diego, California since their founding in 1969. They are in the National League Western DivisionThe National League Western Division, or NL West, is one of the three divisions of Major League Baseball's National League. It was created in 1969 when the previously undivided National League expanded its membership to twelve teams, positioning half of them in an Eastern division and the other half in a Western division.National League Western Division and are the reigning back-to-back division champions.