Padres.com and the San Diego Union-Tribune both are reporting that Ryan Klesko likely will start the year on the disabled list due to a bad left shoulder that Klesko expects to have surgery on after the season. If Klesko lands on the DL, hometown product Adrian Gonzalez, acquired this winter from Texas, will start at [...]

Remember that little chat we had a while back about this year’s Padres bullpen? Four weeks later to the day, it’s obsolete. Jason Anderson has been outrighted to Portland, Steve Andrade has been claimed off waivers by Kansas City, Doug Brocail has had an angioplasty, Seth Etherton has been reassigned to the minors, and Brian [...]

My San Diego Padres installment of Baseball Think Factory’s “Looking Forward to…” series has been published. Check it out.

Josh Barfield officially has won the starting second base job for the Padres thanks to a monster spring. Reminiscent of what Khalil Greene did in 2004, Barfield came out and took charge immediately, never letting up until there was no choice but to name him the starter. Just 23 years old, Barfield compiled a .300/.351/.445 [...]

In Monday night’s telecast of the game against Anaheim, Padres broadcaster Matt Vasgersian challenged bloggers to discuss whether or not Steve Garvey’s number should be retired as a member of the Padres. (For those of you who might not know, it already is.) Being a blogger, I’m all too happy to oblige, but I don’t [...]

It’s fascinating to me that with a week left until Opening Day, we still do not know who’s in the rotation behind Jake Peavy. Two of Dewon Brazelton, Shawn Estes, Chan Ho Park, Woody Williams, and Chris Young will start the season in the bullpen, but which two remains uncertain. Young has struggled but the [...]

Brandon Rosage has been good enough to have me on as a guest at Outsider Radio once again. My segment starts around 27 minutes in but you should give the whole thing a listen: Ducksnorts on Outsider Radio

An article by Tom Krasovic in Wednesday’s San Diego Union-Tribune takes a look at Grady Fuson’s efforts to improve the approach of hitters throughout the Padres organization by educating them on “the importance of getting a good pitch to hit.” These are methods that served the Oakland A’s well when Fuson was there and that [...]

I am still coming down off my WBC high and working feverishly on the Padres preview for Baseball Think Factory so I don’t have anything original for you here today. However, Rich Lederer and Bryan Smith (aka the Baseball Analysts) were kind enough to have me participate in a round table discussion of the upcoming [...]