What’s next for Fernando Tatis Jr.? How injury impacts his season, contract and the Padres

Fernando Tatis Jr.’s arrival at spring training came with unexpected news: During the offseason, the San Diego Padres All-Star shortstop suffered a broken left wrist that likely will need surgery.

Tatis apparently suffered the injury months ago but felt it worsen when he began preparing to report, according to San Diego general manager A.J. Preller.

How did this happen? What does it mean for the megadeal Tatis signed last spring? And where do the Padres go from here?

ESPN MLB reporters Alden Gonzalez and Jesse Rogers weigh in on everything you need to know about the fallout from Tatis’ injury.

So … Fernando Tatis showed up to spring training with a wrist injury?

He sure did. The X-rays Tatis took as part of his entrance physical Sunday — the one everybody undergoes when they report for spring training — revealed a fractured scaphoid bone in his left wrist. A couple days earlier, after the new collective bargaining agreement was ratified and the lockout was lifted, Tatis gave the Padres a heads up that his left wrist had been bothering him for a couple of weeks. In follow-up tests, doctors learned that the injury might have been “a few months old” and that he simply aggravated it as he ramped up his offseason training, particularly his hitting. The Padres, however, had no real way of knowing he was dealing with this. Why? Because the MLB-imposed lockout, which began Dec. 2 and lasted 99 days, prevented teams from communicating with their players. A situation like this is precisely what every executive feared on reporting day. Tatis acknowledged that if not for the lockout, “It definitely could’ve been a different story.”

Well, how’d it happen?

Yeah … about that. Back in early December,…