Agreed. In a vacuum I really like the Padres identity. The problem is you have LA, KC and Detroit already using blue and white (albeit lighter in the first two cases) and a whole slew of teams with blue and white in their color scheme (usually with the addition of red but sometimes another color).
Wouldn't the Padres’ identity look just as clean with dark brown instead of dark blue? And in that case it would at least be unique.