Baseball: Sandy Alderson
- Father Alderson on Mission to Help Padres (Padres RunDown). Peter offers his thoughts on the Alderson signing.
- Alderson makes quick impact (Padres.com). Catcher Ramon Hernandez, whose already slim chances of signing a long-term deal with the Padres would appear to have taken a major hit with the addition of the cost-conscious Alderson, calls him “a very fair man.”
- New CEO Alderson signs up to make Padres the best in baseball (NC Times)
Baseball: Other
- Stauffer 7 Scoreless; Mobile Drops 7th Straight (Scout.com). The latest down on the farm.
- This is a little stale, but the Brewers signed RHP Ben Sheets to a monstrous deal last week, checking in at a reported 4 years/$38.5M. Let’s compare, shall we (through 4/18/05)?
Age IP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 ERA Yr $M Peavy 24 479.1 8.28 1.11 3.23 8.36 3.44 4 14.5 Sheets 26 847.0 9.11 1.06 2.08 7.47 3.91 4 38.5I guess you can probably figure out which signing I like better.
- Interview: Pad Squadder Erica. Gaslamp Ball’s obsession with the Pad Squad continues, and we’re all the better for it.
Satellite Images of Padres Affiliate Stadiums
I’m kinda seriously digging this Google tool.
- PGE Park (Portland Beavers)
- Henry Aaron Stadium (Mobile BayBears)
- The Diamond (Lake Elsinore Storm)
- Memorial Stadium (Ft. Wayne Wizards)
Things Not Baseball
Don’t worry, I’m only trying to appear well rounded…
- Kid, You’ve Paid Your Dues (WWDN). Wil Wheaton’s is one of my favorite blogs, and his account of the folks lined up at the wrong movie theater in LA two months in advance of the next Star Wars movie is hilarious. Seriously, don’t be drinking anything while reading.
- Text Generator (Malevole). I think I found this via WWDN. Equal parts stupid, useful, and fun.
- Pop.: 1 Plus 5,000 Volumes (LA Times). “When the state sends her paperwork, ‘I just sign wherever it needs to be signed: mayor, secretary, treasurer,’ Elsie says. ‘They know I’m the only one up here.’” [via Darren Barefoot]
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Chick (@ Mobile) pounded today … http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2005_04_20_mobaax_hunaax_1 … ERA now up to 6.75 … but McAnulty still hitting .350+ with 10 RsBI … (note: Bush below .200 @ Ft. Wayne
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THANKS for the links to the Google “maps” … that pic of PGE @ Portland looks OLD! I’ve asked the pdxbeavers how old … I’ll let you know if/when I get any feedback …
Thanks for the updates! The maps may be old; I know the one for Petco shows it just barely under construction.
Jim Callis, in his AskBA column today (http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/columnists/askba.html), started with this eval of the 2000-2003 drafts …
By Jim Callis
April 20, 2005
For my column in the next issue of Baseball America, I checked on which teams fared the best and worst in the 2000-03 drafts, based on the grades I gave in the 2005 Prospect Handbook. I used the four grades for each club to come up with a draft grade-point average. Space wouldn’t allow me to run each team’s GPA in my column, so I’ll do that here:
Grade-Point Averages, 2000-03 Drafts
Team GPA Team GPA
Cubs 3.63 Indians 2.50
Devil Rays 3.50 Padres 2.50
Diamondbacks 3.50 Phillies 2.50
Braves 3.38 Red Sox 2.50
Athletics 3.25 White Sox 2.50
Brewers 3.25 Angels 2.25
Nationals 3.25 Royals 2.25
Dodgers 3.13 Astros 2.13
Mets 3.13 Orioles 2.00
Twins 3.13 Marlins 1.88
Rockies 3.00 Tigers 1.75
Rangers 2.75 Reds 1.63
Blue Jays 2.63 Mariners 1.50
Cardinals 2.63 Yankees 1.00
Giants 2.63
Pirates 2.63 MLB Average 2.61
… bottom line: Padres “below average”
That sat. photo of the Hank pretty much sums up my entire experience living in Mobile: partly cloudy with a lot of shadows and fog.
Here’s what folks at pdxbeavers.com say about the PGE Park photo …
Author: David B
Date: 04-21-05 08:50
The left field bleechers are gone, but the hand operated scoreboard and luxury boxes aren’t in (you can zoom in a little closer with that slider bar feature to the left). I think TwinBill and john have it pegged pretty closely–early stages on the remodel, around 1999.