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Odds and Ends

The other day I asked why there aren’t more blogs about the Padres. Well, now there are! Check ‘em out when you have a moment: Padres Fans Since ’76 A little TMI in spots, but how can you not like their Keys to the Season. Good start here… Richard Bart [Update: Richard has rebranded his [...]

Predicting the Future, Badly

Three years ago today that’s exactly what I was doing, giving WAG projections for the Padres 2002 pitching staff. WAGs on top, reality on the bottom. IP ERA BB SO Jarvis, Ke 180 4.94 55 121 35 4.37 10 24 Jones, Bo 180 5.05 52 104 108 5.50 21 60 Lawrence, Br 165 3.73 52 [...]

You Were Expecting Something Other Than Bullet Points?

Ranking the NL rotations (SI, via BTF). Jacob Luft has the Padres ranked ninth. Behind the Giants? Uh, sure. The Mets at four? Okay, Pedro is great. But Tom Glavine is 39 years old, and Kris Benson, Steve Trachsel, and Victor Zambrano scream mediocrity. For the Friars, Luft seems to like Darrell May too much [...]

Grady, Riki, and Robert – Oh, My!

Sorry ’bout the extreme lameness of that title. Hard to keep coming up with new ones that don’t stink. Anyway, here ya go… Superscout might join front office of Padres (U-T). Local product Grady Fuson (Kearny High/Mesa College) may be headed back to SoCal. Among Fuson’s draft choices during his seven years as the Oakland [...]

Random Stuff

Not much going on right now. I had to dig for even this much… Boston glee party for Pauley (Longmont Daily Times-Call). Not to rub salt in the wound but… Former MHS pitcher to join Padres training (Mustang News). Nice little piece on minor-league free agent signee Scott Anderson. Harkey named BayBears pitching coach (Our [...]

Housekeeping

Updated some stuff over there on the right: Fixed link to USA Today. The excellent Mariners blog formerly known as Leone for Third is now called Lookout Landing. Padres Nation has gone dot com. Added link to The Cubdom, another outstanding blog about the Cubbies (which reminds me, how come we don’t have more blogs [...]

Fried Friday

Hope those last couple of posts weren’t too depressing. One of the problems with examing something very closely is it’s real easy to find things that don’t look good, or at least not as good as you’d hoped. But we learn from the process, so we persist. Without rhyme or reason, here is some stuff [...]

Pitchers Drafted: 1995-2004

I promised it would be better, and it is: Yr Rd Player IP ERA WHIP 95 4 Kolb,Br 14.0 4.50 1.929 95 6 Walker,Ke 92.1 4.29 1.375 96 9 Middlebrook,Ja 54.2 5.10 1.354 97 2 Howard,Be 45.1 4.96 1.610 97 9 Herndon,Ju 42.2 6.33 1.875 97 11 Maurer,Da 19.2 5.49 1.627 98 16 Watkins,St 14.1 [...]

Position Players Drafted: 1995-2004

We’ve been lamenting how thin the Padres farm system is and how few impact players it’s produced over the years. But what are the hard numbers? Following is a list of every position player drafted and signed by the Padres from 1995 to 2004 who reached the big club. Stats are those compiled while in [...]

BA’s Padres Chat

Excellent chat with Kevin Goldstein yesterday to follow up on his Top 10 list. I strongly encourage you to read the transcript if you haven’t already, but here are a few highlights: Likes Paul McAnulty’s bat but questions his glove. Also notes his ranking at #10 is an indictment of the Padres system. Mentions that [...]