So, anybody have predictions for this season? Here are a few of mine:
Padres finish 87-75, make playoffs as wild card
Adam Eaton has a breakout year: 15 wins, sub-3.80 ERA
Jake Peavy gets at least one Cy Young vote
Xavier Nady has a breakout year: .297/.355/.512
Tim Redding is the #5 we’ve all been waiting for (gotta like his [...]
Woody Williams toes the slab for the Padres, Will Miller goes for SDSU. ¡Digame, amigos!
Nady ready to start Opening Day (Padres.com). He’ll be in the lineup Opening Day against Joe Kennedy, just not sure where. Nady went 3 for 5 with two doubles and his fifth homer of the spring, a three-run walkoff shot in the bottom of the tenth, in Tuesday’s 13-12 win over the Rangers.
Roberts’ painful groin [...]
Yesterday in the comments, longtime reader Brian G posed the following:
Many people have posited that by trading Humberto Quintero, the Padres are indicating that they’re committed to signing Ramon Hernandez to that long-term contract he’s going to want at the end of this season. (1) What do you think he’s going to want (years and [...]
Season Previews
Christian has posted the NL West Preview at All-Baseball. My contribution is weaker than I’d have liked, but I stand firmly behind what I said about Gary Bennett, Donaldo Mendez, and Eddie Oropesa.
Two guys named Neil living on the other side of the Atlantic make their picks. One of ‘em likes the Dodgers first, [...]
As noted in the comments yesterday, the Padres have traded C Humberto Quintero to the Astros for RHP Tim Redding. I’ll preface this by saying I’m a big fan of Quintero. I love his hustle and enthusiasm. And I love that he was able to have such uncanny success against Randy Johnson last year. But [...]
Good shows this weekend. But really, when is turning your amp up to 11 and screaming at the top of your lungs not a good thing?
Speaking of the weekend, Padres took two out of three. That’s the good news. The bad news is nobody seems to want the #5 spot in the rotation. You know, [...]
John Sickels has posted his community projections for Khalil Greene. They peg him at .279/.352/.458. Sickels himself expects a slight decrease in power this year due to his home park and looks to 2006 for a breakout. My personal expectation is that Greene is going to shock some folks with numbers around .274/.345/.490. I’m perfectly [...]
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