PEORIA, Ariz. — Wil Myers hates the feeling of batting gloves, so he never wears them. This time of year, especially, he spends a lot of quality time with his bats, twirling them like batons in the San Diego Padres’ clubhouse, gripping and waggling them around in his massive hands. He needs to build up calluses on his palms.

“They’re a little soft now,” said Myers, the Padres’ first baseman. “I’m already cracking there a little bit.”

Feelings are raw, too, on the San Diego sports scene. The departure of the Chargers for Los Angeles last month did not hit Myers personally; he is not a football fan, not even of the Carolina Panthers, who play less than a mile from his off-season home in North Carolina. But the Chargers’ move leaves the Padres as the only major pro sports team in town, and a singular entity in baseball.

Every other team in the majors has at least one neighbor in the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or the N.H.L. Only the Padres have a whole market to themselves. Yet after their sixth losing season in a row, at 68-94, they cannot offer a winning alternative to soothe the loss of the Chargers.