First Place, Baby!

by Geoff Young on May 17, 2005

After yet another come-from-behind win, the Padres are now tied with the Diamondbacks for first place in the NL West. I’ll say it now: This is a better team than last year’s version. Deeper bullpen, deeper bench. Not that they didn’t battle last year, but they’re better equipped to put up a fight now. Fun to watch.

Timmy

Tim Stauffer looked good out there last night. Fastball mostly ran 89-93 according to the Channel 4 radar, occasionally hitting 94. Mixed his pitches well, kept hitters off balance – especially toward the end of his outing. Kid also looks like a good athlete. He was real quick off the mound fielding his position, and he even took a few decent hacks at the plate. Very solid first impression.

Here’s a closer look at Stauffer’s first two starts – shaky first inning, then brilliance.

          IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP   BA  OBP   SLG Pit
first:   2.0 4 4  4  1  3  0   2 .444 .643 1.000  57
after:  11.0 7 1  1  0  2 11   0 .184 .220  .237 153

And I hesitate to mention this next one because the sample is so small, but the split is huge so here it is:

      AB   BA  OBP  SLG
vs R  23 .130 .192 .130
vs L  24 .333 .448 .625

I wonder what his left/right split was like in the minors. Anybody know?

Trevor

Trevor Hoffman has saved three of the Pads’ four wins on the current homestand. He’s retired all nine batters he’s faced, on just 23 pitches:

 IP H BB SO  ERA Sv Pit
3.0 0  0  2 0.00  3  23

Here are his numbers so far in May:

 IP H BB SO  ERA
8.0 3  1 10 0.00

And his numbers since the Opening Day disaster at Coors:

  IP H BB SO  ERA
15.0 7  2 16 0.60

Elsewhere

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