The 2026 season is ending early — very early — for one of the San Diego Padres' top prospects. According to multiple reports, outfielder Kale Fountain was scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery on his right shoulder Tuesday. Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune was first to report the bad news for the Padres' No. 9 prospect according to MLB Pipeline. Kale Fountain launches his first home run of the season pic.twitter.com/g3vEmpWvzs — Clark Fahrenthold (@CFahrenthold11) April 10, 2026 Fountain, 20, was the Padres' fifth-round pick in the 2024 MLB Draft out of Norris High School in Nebraska. He played 65 games last year between the Arizona Complex League and Single-A Lake Elsinore. He had played 14 games for the Padres' California League affiliate this season before suffering the injury. According to Sanders, Fountain was diagnosed with a left shoulder subluxation following a run-in with a wall in Lake Elsinore's game against the Visalia Rawhide on April 21. Kale Fountain, the Padres’ No.…