What a great title. It’s like Friday Links, only Monday…
- Padres to host inaugural FriarFest (Padres.com). For $5, fans can set foot on the Petco Park playing field and “interact with their favorite Padres personalities.” Brian Giles, Eric Young, and Mike Cameron are mentioned among those scheduled to attend.
- Cactus League (via Baseball Musings). The official site of spring training in Arizona features schedules, tickets, etc. Padres open against the Mariners at Peoria on Thursday, March 2.
- Chan-ho Clashes Online With Fan (Korea Times). In Park’s defense, his detractor seems a little, um… Well, he thinks Park would do better if he cut his hair shorter.
- Colletti Baez A Reliever (6-4-2). The Dodgers have dealt away two promising young pitchers for two decent relievers. This is why I don’t stress too much over the Padres’ moves this winter. Nobody else in the NL West is doing much to help themselves either.
- Percentiles for Offensive Production Measures (Tiger Tales). Friend of Ducksnorts Lee Panas takes a good look at offensive production and provides a handy chart to show, among other things, that an 803 OPS is roughly equivalent in magnitude to 6.0 RC/G. Good stuff.
- Bruce Sutter and the Hall of Fame – Another Look (TigerBlog). Brian looks at how former Tiger John Hiller compares with Sutter.
- Weighted Park Factors, 2003-2005 (BTF). Dan Szymborski has posted (okay, it was over a month ago) “3-year weighted park factors for all active major and minor league teams, not counting rookie league teams.” If anyone is doing translations or other research involving minor league stats, this could be quite useful.
Former Padres
- Pirates’ Perez speaks of improvement (Beaver County Times). The Pirates hope that Oliver Perez‘ improving English skills will pay dividends on the field as well.
- Burroughs Welcomes A Change Of Scenery (Tampa Tribune). Looks like Sean Burroughs will be the starter in Tampa. Quoth Burroughs, on his time with the Padres: “I had some good years out here but I guess I didn’t match up to their expectations.”
That’s all for now. We’ll get back to more regular posting soon.
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More cowbell? Sorta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0
Interesting business side of payroll.
A mention about money paid to the Padres for Cirillo.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/thiel/255225_thiel11.html
Hmmm…I’d like to see what the Padres’ payroll looks like.
Some Wells stuff to chew on:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/01/15/a_true_big_game_pitcher/?page=2
Looks like he’s lobbying to come to SD. A trade to LA fell through last week . . .
Wasn’t Eaton upset at the long-term deal the Padres were offering him?
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13645580.htm
Looks like he’s trying what Matt Morris did last year. Seems to me that strategy is likely to work better in St. Louis than in Arlington…
Good link Geoff
I’m totally puzzled by that Eaton thing. Unless the Rangers did it with a wink that they would try to get a long term deal done with him at some point during the season.
This is Eaton’s last arbitration year. He was always going to sign a contract with the Rangers. It was only a question of it whether the two parties would agree to it beforehand or allow it to be set by an arbitrator.
Good point, TW. Still interesting that Eaton doesn’t seem to be making much noise about a long-term deal now that he’s in Texas. I have no way of knowing for sure but I get the impression that he wouldn’t have been real happy with a contract like this in a Padres uniform.
TW — I understand that he was going to be signed this year regardless — just wondering about the “noise” factor that Geoff mentioned.
The daily Wells update. This indicates why the trade probably has not happened yet: The Padres will give up Roberts, but only if the Sox take on Woody Williams.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/01/18/sox_arroyo_working_on_deal/?page=2
Thanks, Nick, for the update. I hope KT and co. stick to their guns on this one.
Something from the NC times on Petco’s fences:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/01/18/sports/professional/padres/21_54_321_17_06.txt
Padres uni numbers (hat tip Baseball Musings):
http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060117&content_id=1297168&vkey=news_sd&fext=.jsp&c_id=sd
A little suprised that guys like Baugh, Etherton, and LaForest have numbers under 60.
It will be very weird to see anyone other than Lawrence wearing #50 — looks like Brian Sikorski got it.
And Barfield is #60.
Barfield wears 60? Anyone know why? Just becauase he’s a rookie, perhaps?
The Padres have claimed Walter Young off waivers from the Orioles. He’s listed at 6-5, 322 lbs. Here’s a picture:
http://www.jnevitt.com/Images/Walter-Young-first-hit.jpg
Big dude.
Walter looks like he just ate Mo Vaughn! I hope he’s a backup catcher.
Huh. Why? Claim Young when we’re jammed up at first base, don’t claim Branyan when Castilla is older than dirt and the next 3b in the chain will play at Elsinore this season?