Comments on: Monthly Roundtable: April 2007

By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:56:14 +0000

Thanks, folks. Glad you enjoyed the discussion!

Two quick points on Cust:

1) This is his second trip the A’s; he spent ‘05 at Triple-A Sacramento before signing with the Pads.
2) Shameless plug: Anyone concerned about KT’s trading abilities needs to read my book.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:56:29 +0000

Great idea and great execution! It’s good to see the SD Blog community is so fraternal. The idea of adding a Padres exec is an excellent one and seems like a reasonable possibility given DePo’s interview with Gaslamp Ball and Alderson’s forward of the DS Annual. They clearly recognize the value of being involved with the blogging community.

Nice work GY and all of the others, too!

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:19:13 +0000

Watch out … the Gi’nts are about to make their big move … http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/03/SPG4OPKPFE3.DTL … Lincecum looks like he’ll get Ortiz’ starting spot on Sunday …

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:20:33 +0000

OT … http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Am47V8SoNJ5b9Pq0.REV9D0RvLYF?slug=jp-neighborgall050307&prov=yhoo&type=lgns … Jason Neighborgall makes Nuke LaLoosh look like a control pitcher … an interesting read.

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:05:23 +0000

I don’t really care what we get back for Cust (he wasn’t very valuable to us as yet another left-handed pinch hitter with no defensive ability), I’m just excited that he’ll get a chance to be an everyday player with a team that will actually appreciate his abilities.

And the round table is really cool.

By: Didi

Didi — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:39:10 +0000

Nice one, Geoff. Thanks.

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:12:01 +0000

Nice job, really enjoyed the roundtable discussion. Thanks

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:12:33 +0000

17: Prep Pigskin Report, you say?

By: John Conniff

John Conniff — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:11:23 +0000

22. The only trade I can think off of offhand on the deal being tied to the player’s performance was last year when the Padres traded Greg Sain to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later in spring training.

The Brewers ended up cutting Sain after a few weeks and no one to my knowledge came over from the Brewers organization.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:11:04 +0000

14.

Yep, though Ichiro! is declining, I think he can still play CF (Pinto has him rated higher than Cameron last year), he solves the leadoff problem and his swing and speed are tailor made for Petco.

Plus, SD has a pretty nice sized Asian population. I’m not sure if this still happens, but on Ichiro’s! first few swings around the league, large numbers of Asians would come to the park seemingly only to root for him individually.