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By: Didi

Didi — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:27:07 +0000

That's so sad about Brian Lawrence. I was looking forward to having him bounced back this season with the Nats. LM: Forever HOLD your peace.

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By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:25:52 +0000

I’m still whining about having “HOLD”s as a stat in the Ducksnorts2 fantasy league at Yahoo … anyone else in that league that wants to jump on my anti-HOLD bandwagon, please do so … NOW is the time!!! HELP!!!

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By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:59:56 +0000

Wow, either Kevin Towers is psychic or just incredibly lucky:

(Brian) Lawrence was diagnosed with a torn labrum in his right shoulder. The injury was discovered in an MRI conducted Friday night, team doctor Bruce Thomas said Saturday.

Thomas said the best-case scenario has Lawrence returning after midseason; at worst, the right-hander will be out until September.

“Theres tests done for range of motion, for strength, theres provocative tests to see if he might have a tear of his rotator cuff or labrum. He passed all that with flying colors,” Thomas said. “In fact, he had no symptoms. We do feel he that he hurt himself in his first bullpen.”

http://www.wvec.com/sharedcont.....B1NGD.html

Of course there’s no way of knowing if he would have sustained the same injury if he stayed with the Padres but since it happened so soon in camp I would think it must have been on the verge of tearing.

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By: hank

hank — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:29:24 +0000

Smokers are easy to pick on. Even those that smoke know its a nasty habit. I think letting folks drink at ballgames is much more dangerous to your fellow fans than letting them smoke. What about second hand smoke from walking out in the parking lot with 20 thousand cars starting up? I have quit smoking but it still gripes me to see the prejudice against smokers.

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By: dprat

dprat — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:06:59 +0000

BP also has released their Top 50 Prospects:

http://www.baseballprospectus......cleid=4774

Barfield - #49
Kottaras is an Honorable Mention (they have 15 HM in addition to their Top 50)
No love for Carillo

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By: funkinstein

funkinstein — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:14:33 +0000

I’m curious on the smoking issue, Geoff. I don’t smoke, so it’s not a big deal, but it really wasn’t a big deal when they designated smokers to their own area’s around the park for me, either. I rarely had to walk through those area’s, and didn’t care when I did. If anything, it seems to me if they are going to force smokers to leave the ballpark, they’ll be hanging out near the gates, or somewhere in the general vicinity where I’ll have to walk to get into the park / out of the park.

It just seems to me that this “solution” will force more people to be exposed to second hand smoke, rather than keep it away from people.

Again, I had no problems with people having a patio somewhat away from the non-smoking fan, in an outdoor facility.

Just my two cents.

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By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:13:47 +0000

Thanks, Peter, for passing along that FoxSports.com list. This looks more reasonable to me, although I still think Carrillo might be too low.

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By: Nick G.

Nick G. — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:54:26 +0000

I’d be interested to see where SD ranks in offseason moves — I’m thinking we’re in the low teens. If nothing else, the Pads were very aggressive.

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By: Nick G.

Nick G. — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:51:36 +0000

Washington’s ahead of the Pads? Isn’t their system pretty barren? Is that b/c of Zimmerman?Didn’t think the Pads’ was that bad . . .

Of course, I could be a little biased on my assessment. I’ll have to look through the BA site when I get home.

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By: Peter Friberg

Peter Friberg — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:19:04 +0000

Paul R. (who occasionally posts) and myself walked through BA’s Prospect Handbook. BA ranks the Padres as the 28th best (3rd worst) farm in all of baseball.

It wasn’t until we got to 20-21 that we felt the Padres weren’t better…

The bottom third:

20. Houston
21. St. Louis
22. Philadelphia
23. Kansas City
24. Washington
25. Toronto
26. Oakland
27. Seattle
28. San Diego
29. Cincinnati
30. New York (NL)

BA ranks our top as

1. Carillo
2. Kottaras
3. Barfield
4. Johnson
5. Headley

Now Johnson and Headley both project to be VERY solid regulars and do not deserve to be discussed in the top 100, but I think Carillo and Barfield ABSOLUTELY should both be top 100 guys.

And I think Carillo should be around 40-50. FoxSports.com is also listing prospects and has the Padres’ triumvant at:

53. Barfield
62. Carillo
77. Kottaras

Perry admits that Carillo’s ranking is conservative and I think Barfield’s is too high (maybe mid-70 to low-80s), and I’m not sure Kottaras is a top-100 guy (maybe top 125ish). But it is nice to Padres getting more love.

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