The San Diego Padres have generated nearly $3 million in additional ticket revenue in the two weeks since Manny Machado joined the club.

Padres sales executives submitted projections for the initial wave of ticket revenue prior to signing Machado and president of business operations Erik Greupner said the team is "at or ahead of what we anticipated."

Greupner did not provide specifics on the raw number of tickets sold, but said it was "at least double" what is normally projected for that time of year.

The Padres have finished 10 of the past 11 seasons with a losing record and have not made the playoffs since 2006.