The NC Times has an article suggesting that the Padres aren’t going to be real active this winter. A few open questions:
- Wasn’t Petco supposed to bring additional revenue that would be re-invested in the team?
- Didn’t 3 million customers help reach the goal of #1?
- Whose fault is it that Jeff Cirillo is still owed $3.425M?
- Whose fault is it that Ryan Klesko and Phil Nevin have no-trade clauses in their contracts?
- Why does everyone think speed, in and of itself, is necessary to field a winner at Petco? How about outfielders who can cover the gaps and make throws strong enough to keep baserunners honest? So help me, if Kerry Robinson (or a reasonable facsmile thereof) breaks camp with the Pads next year, I’m going to scream.
- If the Padres are so damn poor, then why did they spend an extra $250k to watch David Wells get pounded in his final start at Arizona?
The U-T pretty much corroborates this assessment. Joey Gathright? Yawn. Where are Herb Washington, Donnell Nixon, and Cedric Landrum when you need them?
I hope this is a smokescreen. The Padres need to do something about the outfield situation. And they need to either go out and get a #5 starter or give someone in the organization a legitimate shot at the job. And please, no more Rule V draft.
I think a lot of us were hoping for big things in the off-season. But now it’s looking like more of the same: Try to get rid of bad contracts and hope that the bad contracts we receive in return don’t stink quite as much.
Can you feel the excitement?
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