The Padres have brought back old friend Woody Williams, signing the 38-year-old right-hander to a 1-year deal worth a guaranteed $3.5M. The contract could be worth as much as $14.5M over two seasons if he makes 15 starts in 2005. Williams essentially is a slightly better than league average starter at this stage in his [...]
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Arbitration
We’re launching an 800+ page web site tomorrow that I’ve been working on since August and I’m fried, so we’ll keep this short and sweet. According to ESPN’s Transactions page the Padres have offered arbitration to David Wells. Yahoo! backs it up, noting that they now have until January 8 to work out a deal. [...]
Scouting Report 1990: Roger Clemens
Ah yes, 1989. Kenneth Branagh’s version of Henry V was in theaters. Milli Vanilli hit #1 three times. And Roger Clemens finished the season with 17 victories, to give him 95 in his brief big-league career. The Rocket’s entry in The Scouting Report: 1990 is found on page 45. Here are some of the highlights: [...]
Catching Up on the News
Like I said, I’m not real interested in talking about BALCO and steroids. It’s not that I don’t have an opinion or don’t care–obviously this is all pretty disturbing stuff for anyone who loves the game of baseball–but right now there is so much flying around that it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. I [...]
Site Updates
A few minor changes to the site: In left navigation, changed Stadium to Petco Park; changed Contact link so that it now goes straight to my e-mail address (I can’t possibly get any more spam than I already get now) Updated About to more accurately reflect the tools I’m using to build and maintain Ducksnorts [...]
Ducksnorts Theme Song
My wife says I’d generate more discussion if I talked about Balco. But I don’t really feel like talking about that, so instead you get a theme song: Caffiend (3.05 MB, MP3 file) This MP3 file is licensed under a Creative Commons License and is copyrighted © 2004 by Geoffrey N. Young. Caffiend 2004 Theme song [...]
Scouting Report 1990: Tony Gwynn
At the eye doctor: Doc: See that “E” up there? Me: Um… Doc: Kind of? Me: Sure, let’s say I do. Well, I may not be able to see, but I can talk baseball. We turn now to page 629 of The Scouting Report: 1990 for a detailed look at Mr. Padre: Gwynn knows the [...]
Themeless Thursday
Watched the first half of the USD/SDSU hoops game last night. My alma mater was getting Slaughtered so I didn’t watch the second half. With Matt Vasgersian and Tony Gwynn calling the game on Channel 4, it only made me long for baseball anyway. Speaking of Gwynn, the people have spoken and they want him [...]
Scouting Report 1990: Steve Finley
Hey cool, “blog” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. How sweet is that? Anyway, I mentioned last week that while I was in Phoenix I picked up a copy of The Scouting Report: 1990 at a used bookstore. I’ve been flipping through the book every now and then, and I thought it might be fun [...]
Dennys Reyes
The Padres have signed LHP Dennys Reyes to a 1-year deal worth $550k. Earlier this month we identified Reyes as a guy Kevin Towers and company should target. You had to figure the Pads would grab another lefty. And with Glendon Rusch staying in Chicago, that left John Halama, Ron Villone, and Reyes as the [...]
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