Several folks have asked about the recent Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed at Petco Park. This wasn’t a media event and the handful of bloggers in attendance were asked to keep stuff off the record, so there’s not a lot I can tell you beyond what Gaslamp Ball has already mentioned. They’ve pretty much covered it [...]
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IGD: Padres @ Phillies (6 Jul 06)
first pitch: 4:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Chan Ho Park (5-4, 4.32 ERA) vs Ryan Madson (8-5, 5.71 ERA) preview: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN buy tickets Did you ever think, in your wildest dreams, that Chan Ho Park would have a lower ERA in July than Jake Peavy? And that that wouldn’t [...]
Canseco or Not, Here We Come
Knuckleballer Jose Canseco won’t be there, but that can’t stop us from having a Ducksnorts meetup at Tony Gwynn Stadium this Friday night. Buy general admission tickets and we’ll meet at the concession stand on the first base side, right behind the main entrance. I’m planning to get to the stadium around 6:45 p.m. We’ll [...]
IGD: Padres @ Phillies (5 Jul 06)
first pitch: 4:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Jake Peavy (4-8, 4.50 ERA) vs Scott Mathieson (0-2, 6.75 ERA) preview: Padres.com | SI.com buy tickets If you haven’t already done so, be sure to vote for Chris Young in the “All-Star Final Vote.” You know I don’t care about the game itself, but it’d [...]
Keeping Separate Decisions Separate
This is part 2 of an occasional series looking at errors in decision making caused by “cognitive illusions”; part 1 can be found here. One point Sandy Alderson made at last Friday’s Pizza Feed dealt with the importance of not grouping together decisions that should be made independently of one another. His specific example involved [...]
IGD: Padres @ Phillies (4 Jul 06)
first pitch: 12:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Clay Hensley (5-6, 4.14 ERA) vs Cole Hamels (1-4, 5.50 ERA) preview: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN buy tickets Happy Indendence Day! Cole Hamels gets the start this afternoon against his hometown team. Remember when the Padres were looking at him with their first-round pick back [...]
Padres Month in Review: June 2006
The Padres had a 14-12 record in June. That may not sound great, but it sure beats their 10-17 record during the same month last year. You may remember June 2005. The Pads scored 91 runs in 27 games and allowed 123. Brian Falkenborg, Darrell May, Tim Redding, and Dennys Reyes worked 45 innings between [...]
IGD: Padres vs Giants (2 Jul 06)
first pitch: 1:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Chris Young (7-3, 2.97 ERA) vs Matt Morris (6-7, 4.24 ERA) preview: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN This dude was at the Storm game Saturday night. He can pass his entire body through a tennis racket. I feel so inadequate.
IGD: Padres vs Giants, Game 2 (1 Jul 06)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Woody Williams (3-1, 3.27 ERA) vs Brad Hennessey (3-1, 2.59 ERA) preview: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN And in the second game, we see the return of Woody Williams, who was the Padres’ best starting pitcher when he landed on the DL back in May. The [...]
IGD: Padres vs Giants, Game 1 (1 Jul 06)
first pitch: 12:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Mike Thompson (3-2, 4.30 ERA) vs Matt Cain (6-6, 5.20 ERA) previews: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN More on Friday night’s Pizza Feed later, but for now I’d like to thank Dave Pease, Joe Sheehan, Paul Swydan, and everyone at Baseball Prospectus, as well as Sandy [...]
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