Comments on: Padres Farm Report (8 Jun 08)

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:10:50 +0000

#1@Bryan: I really don't think Giles and Gonzalez should be hitting back-to-back in the lineup anyway. Giles should really be batting second or first. #2@Frank Barning: Bunting and hit-and-running is a good way to give away outs and lose ball games. It's bad baseball. That's why they don't do that. #3@Geoff Young: I think he's supposed to be up before they start interleague. Perhaps they want to let him DH. #4@Bryan: No kidding. Whoever wrote that letter had no idea what he was talking about on several levels.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:36:19 +0000

Saying Bruce Bochy had no fire is like saying Trevor Hoffman doesn't throw a change-up.

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By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:31:58 +0000

#1@Bryan: I expect to see Headley up within the next couple of weeks. #2@Frank Barning:

Bud Black is cheap, and the Padres like cheap.

This sentiment should satisfy anyone who seeks simple "answers" to complex issues.

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By: Frank Barning

Frank Barning — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:14:51 +0000

This letter was in the Sunday San Diego Union-Tribune. I read it to my wife and she thought that I had written it. I hadn’t but it totally expresses my feelings about Bud Black. What do you think of the letter?

BLACK AND BOCHY: Watching the Padres this year is like déjà vu. Bud Black . . . is Bruce Bochy redux. I realize our Padres are limited in what they can do, but Bud’s management has been totally predictable. He is from the same mold as Bochy. There is no fire, no surprises, nothing new, very little bunting or hit-and-runs, nothing unexpected, nothing that the other team is not expecting. The Padres need some new blood with new ideas, but it won’t happen. Bud Black is cheap, and the Padres like cheap.

TOM FERRELL, San Diego

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:41:58 +0000

With the team playing well and Gerut and Hairston really looking like they’re going to be able to help the club for the remainder of the season, I wonder if now isn’t the time to call up Headley. It’s still painfully obvious the offense needs a shot in the arm, but if you bring Chase up now you can still ease him into some games by working a platoon with those three. Defensively we should be better as well, since Huber and McAnulty collectively look only a shade better than Ryan Klesko out there.

On another note, I don’t know if anyone else has caught this but it seems with having seen LaRussa, Piniella, and Willie Randolph come through here over the past few weeks, that those three managers really love pitching changes and situational matchups, even when there’s not really a high leverage situation at hand. Randolph has run Schoeneweis, Smith, and Feliciano out there in each game this series, and Duaner Sanchez has pitched in two of three. It makes me wonder if these managers are really that uncomfortable when they don’t have a favorable matchup, and if this has lead to them burning through their bullpens faster than the Padres usually do. Also, I wonder if the Padres have made a conscious decision to go after relievers, like Heath Bell, who are equally tough on left and right handed batters.

It’s too bad that Adrian and Brian Giles both swing from the left side, or else I would really like to see Buddy post a lineup that alternates lefty-righty all the way through. It would drive Randolph nuts, and it would also give us a favorable matchup late in the game, like what happened tonight with Hairston.

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