Monthly Archives: August 2001

Elsinore Report and Other Stuff

Kinda long entry today. Elsinore report and other stuff.
Elsinore Report
As is our custom, we arrived at the stadium in the second inning. Unfortunately, this meant we missed all the scoring by the home team. The Storm jumped on Lancaster starter Doug Slaten for three runs in the third, thanks to a Xavier Nady RBI double [...]

Trevor Hoffman Saves #300

Before I get to what I was planning for today, I’d just like to say congrats to Trevor Hoffman on notching his 300th save last night. Acquired from the Marlins for Gary Sheffield back in the 1993 Fire Sale, Hoffy has been one of the most consistent performers for the Pads since he’s been in [...]

Herndon Earns First Big-League Win

Congrats to the Oceanside Little Leaguers for making it to Williamsport! They beat Green Valley, Nevada, last night, 12-8.
In Padres news, Junior Herndon won his first big-league game last night. Up 6-0 after seven innings, and already having thrown over 110 pitches, he goes back out to start the eighth. That’s a debatable move. Actually, [...]

Padres’ Young Arms

Okay, I’m starting to believe in Brian Lawrence. Guy gives up two runs in the first, then completely shuts down the Pirates over the next seven innings. He’s got some sick movement on his pitches.
Wow. Right-handed hitters are 0-for-46 against Seattle RHP Joel Pineiro? Impressive.
LHP Mark Phillips made his Cal League debut last night, at [...]

White Sox and the Dowd Report

First off, getting back to yesterday’s question, Player A is the Mets’ Todd Zeile; Player B is, yep, the Rockies’ Mike Hampton.
Couple good articles over at Baseball Prospectus:

This one’s on the White Sox organization. Keith J. Scherer talks about some of the up-and-comers in the system but the real prize here is the insight gleaned [...]

Zeile vs Hampton

Not much time today, so I’ll just throw out a couple of fun stat lines. Guess who these guys are; answer tomorrow.

 
AB
R
H
2B
3B
HR
RBI
BB
SO
BA
OBP
SLG

Player A
390
46
104
20
1
6
45
47
74
.267
.351
.369

Player B
63
17
19
1
0
7
13
1
14
.302
.312
.651

I’ll give you a hint. Player A is a starting big-league first baseman; Player B is a big-leaguer who doesn’t play every day.

Eaton Out for Season, Nevin Balks at Moving to Second

Uh-oh. Adam Eaton faces reconstructive elbow surgery that will sideline him for the remainder of 2001 and all of 2002. He’s going to get a second opinion but this doesn’t look good at all.
Phil Nevin isn’t so sure about his proposed move to second base. If he doesn’t, with the recent acquisition of Ray Lankford, [...]

Bullet Points

Bullet points today.

U-T reports that Phil Nevin will be working out at second base this off-season in an attempt to accommodate Sean Burroughs. Now that would be interesting. Nevin definitely isn’t your stereotypical middle infielder, but knowing how hard he’s worked to get where he is now, I wouldn’t be surprised if he can do [...]

2001 Padres Draftee Update

Quick update on how 2001 Padres draftees are doing. Bozied hasn’t signed; neither, as far as I can tell, has Brown, who apparently is playing in the Cape Cod League, a collegiate summer league.

Rd
Player
Pos
Lvl
AB
BA
OBP
SLG
BB
SO
SB
CS
E

1
Jake Gautreau*
3B
A-
91
.297
368
.505
10
23
1
1
6

3
Taggert Bozied
3B
IND
129
.333
.399
.504
8
22
1
2
8

4
Josh Barfield
2B/SS
R+
173
.289
.339
.387
12
29
8
1
12

5
Greg Sain
1B
A-
157
.318
.366
.611
8
41
1
1
4

7
Doc Brooks
OF
A-
71
.254
.365
.549
9
32
2
1
1

9
Jon Benick#
1B
A-
136
.272
.329
.456
12
28
0
0
5

11
Marcus Nettles*
OF
A-
96
.271
.364
.281
12
25
14
5
4

12
Jordan Pickens
OF
R+
96
.281
.355
.552
8
30
0
0
1

13
Jason Bartlett
SS
A-
159
.340
.425
.465
22
22
8
3
13

14
Josh Carter
OF
A-
86
.186
.220
.279
3
14
2
0
1

17
Trevor Brown
C
A-
37
.297
.449
.351
8
7
0
0
2

24
Joseph Hastings*
1B
R+
124
.339
.407
.589
15
32
1
1
2

26
Matthew Hellman
OF
A-
126
.246
.297
.365
10
23
1
2
0

31
Hunter Brown
3B
CCL
139
.295
.404
.353
23
33
7
4
7

Rd
Player
Lvl
IP
H
BB
SO
ERA

8
David Pauley
R+
44.1
57
14
30
6.29

10
Ben Fox*
R+/A
23.2
33
15
21
7.99

16
Jon Brandt
A-
12.0
13
4
12
3.00

19
Jason Anderegg
IND/A-
54.0
51
21
42
3.67

21
Rusty Tucker*
R+
25.0
27
33
24
6.12

25
Scott Kelly*
A-
35.0
36
14
45
4.11

34
Zachary Wykoff
A-
18.1
32
11
17
10.31

*, [...]

Peavy Promoted to Moblie, Tankersley to Portland

Movement in the Padres organization. RHP Jake Peavy promoted to Double-A Mobile, RHP Dennis Tankersley promoted to Triple-A Portland, OF Jeremy Owens reassigned to Class-A Lake Elsinore, RHP Rick Guttormson reassigned to Mobile.
Jim Callis at Baseball America referred to Tankersley as the Pads’ #2 prospect behind Sean Burroughs in a recent chat. I listed him [...]