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The One About Bradley

In case you somehow missed it, Milton Bradley is a Padre. Acquired Friday afternoon along with cash for minor-league right-hander Andrew Brown, the outfielder from Long Beach with a checkered past begins his Padres career on the disabled list due to a strained left oblique. (The Pads knew about the injury and didn’t request a [...]

Oh So Quiet

Welcome to the calm before the storm. Not much going on right now, but the Opening Day roster is starting to take shape. Right-hander Scott Strickland will be waived today, leaving righties Kevin Cameron and Mike Thompson as the leading candidates for the final two bullpen spots. Kevin Towers and Bud Black both think highly [...]

Notes from Peoria

I’m back. There is an overwhelming amount of information for me to process, so we’ll just go with bullet points of things learned or rediscovered along the way: The late Jeff Buckley was a musical genius. The parking situation at Phoenix Municipal Stadium stinks. How a parking lot cannot prepare itself to accommodate actual cars [...]

Young, Giles, McAnulty Strong in Padres ’07 TV Debut

Got to watch my first Padres game on TV last night. Thanks to the magic of TiVo, I got to watch it again this morning. Yes, I forgot to set up an IGD. We’ll get the first one of the year going this Saturday for the game against Colorado. While we’re waiting for that glorious [...]

Padres’ 2007 Opening Day Roster: Our Best Guesses

We had 21 entrants in our little contest. Here is the consensus: SP: Clay Hensley (21), Greg Maddux (21), Jake Peavy (21), David Wells (21), Chris Young (21) RP: Heath Bell (11), Doug Brocail (13), Trevor Hoffman (21), Scott Linebrink (20), Cla Meredith (21), Royce Ring (19), Scott Strickland (13) C: Josh Bard (21), Rob [...]

Friday Links (9 Feb 07)

Quick update on our guess-the-roster contest, and then we’ll hit the links. Here is the consensus opening day roster so far: C: Bard, Bowen INF: Blum, Branyan, M. Giles, Gonzalez, K. Greene, Kouzmanoff, Walker OF: M. Cameron, Cruz, B. Giles, McAnulty, Sledge SP: Hensley, Maddux, Peavy, Wells, Young RP: Brocail, Hoffman, Linebrink, Meredith, Ring, Strickland [...]

Winter Warm-Up: Temecula

My wife and I trekked up I-15 to Temecula on Monday night for the first of several Winter Warm-Up events being held by the Padres this week. Temecula is just down the road from Lake Elsinore, home of the Pads’ Class-A affiliate in the California League, so it was a cross-promotional deal. Representatives from both [...]

Padres Pitching Projections for 2007, Part 1

We looked at the Padres hitting projections on Friday and Saturday. Now it’s time for the pitchers. Be forewarned: some of these are all over the place. Trevor Hoffman   ERA Bill James 2.77 Chone 3.47 Marcel 3.56 ZiPS 2.38 Average 3.05 The Chone and Marcel projections make no sense. Hoffman hasn’t had an ERA [...]

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Padres Sign Strickland, Search for Manager

Lost in the Bruce Bochy drama, the Padres have signed right-hander Scott Strickland to a 1-year deal worth $550k if he makes the Opening Day roster in 2007. It’s a typical low-risk signing by Kevin Towers that could help next year’s bullpen in the way that Rudy Seanez did in 2005 or, to a lesser [...]