We did some work over the holiday weekend, adding an Add to My Yahoo button on the left as well as a “Comments/Trackback” feature courtesy of HaloScan. The latter was on the to-do list I gave myself a couple weeks ago (note: theme song is coming next week). Also added two blogs to Hot Links: [...]
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Jason Kendall to Oakland
Long rumored to be coming to San Diego, Jason Kendall has been dealt to the Oakland A’s for Mark Redman and Arthur Rhodes. No disrespect to Kendall, but as a Padre fan I’m very glad to have Ramon Hernandez on the team for a fraction of the cost. For actual analysis of the trade, check [...]
Free Agents
Thanks to ESPN’s Free Agent Tracker, you can easily follow this winter’s signings. So far, 14 players have signed. Here are the average numbers of the 12 whose contract amount is listed: Hitters (5) contract/age Yrs $M/yr Age 2.60 3.01 33.8 2004 stats AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO BA OBP SLG 454 123 [...]
Sickels on the AFL
John Sickels scouts the AFL and likes Brad Baker as “a darkhorse candidate for a San Diego bullpen job.” Of the other guys Sickels mentions, we saw Oakland’s Huston Street and Kansas City’s Mark Teahen. Street is a very aggressive right-handed reliever, and Teahen looked close to big-league ready. One game, amateur analysis, usual grains [...]
Comments: Testing, 1-2-3
Signed up for HaloScan commenting so you can talk to me. Hopefully this thing works. Give it a spin…
Welcome Back, Rudy
Padres have signed Rudy Seanez to a 1-year deal worth $550k (possibly kicking up to $950k based on incentives). This will be the Brawley native’s third stint with the Friars. In mentioning Seanez as a possible target earlier this month, I said “…he’s basically an older version of [Antonio] Osuna, so why not just re-sign [...]
Travelsnort: McDowell Road
There is a road called McDowell Road that stretches nearly 70 miles from Buckeye, eastward through Phoenix, and finally to Mesa. According to Yahoo! Maps, the drive from one end to the other takes 1.5 hours. But that’s not quite right, because the directions assume that nobody in their right mind would drive that road [...]
Back from Arizona
More later, after I’ve had a chance to recover, but for the moment a few quick notes: Two most impressive players I saw this weekend: Florida’s Jeremy Hermida and Phoenix’s Amare Stoudemire. Hermida has a real nice left-handed stroke. The homer he hit was to dead center, on the first pitch he saw from southpaw [...]
Table Scraps
I’m heading out to Phoenix to catch the AFL championship on Saturday, so this will be real short. Bust out the bullet points… Padres add seven to 40-man roster (Yahoo). Depending on what other moves the Padres make this winter, Brad Baker is a good bet to see material time with the big club in [...]
Dusting the Bookshelves: BBBA 1995 Conclusion
Troy Percival to the Tigers at 2 years for $12M? Sorry, that’s just insane. I think at this point if you’re a big-league GM, the name of the game is to wait as long as humanly possible before going after free agents. It’s what the Pads did last year with Jay Payton. And just because [...]
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