Padres (15-27) @ Mariners (16-26) Chris Young vs Miguel Batista 7:10 p.m. PT Channel 4SD AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 181 MLB, B-R Ah, interleague play. The intensity, the intrigue, the irrelevance… I walked over to Book-Off the other day and found a whole slew of baseball publications. Most are in Japanese, so I couldn’t [...]
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Series Preview: Dave and DMZ Talk Mariners
The Padres head next to the Pacific Northwest to face their bitter natural rivals, the Seattle Mariners, in a battle to determine which end of I-5 (all 1381.29 miles of it) is most dominant. In preparation for this dramatic and important event, I chatted with Dave and DMZ of USS Mariner fame to get their [...]
Padres Farm Report (16 May 08)
Triple-A — Portland 7, Las Vegas 6 Craig Stansberry (SS): 2-for-4, BB Chase Headley: 2-for-5, 2B, HR Brian Myrow: 4-for-4, 2 2B, BB Chip Ambres: 2-for-4, HR, BB Will Venable: 2-for-5, 2B, HR Nick Hundley: 0-for-4, PB Matt Antonelli: 1-for-3, 2B, BB Cesar Ramos: 5.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 1 HR, 2 BB, 4 [...]
IGD: Padres @ Cubs (15 May 08)
Padres (15-26) @ Cubs (24-16) Greg Maddux vs Ryan Dempster 11:20 a.m. PT no television AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 183 MLB, B-R The Padres showed some good fight at the end of Wednesday evening’s game. Unfortunately they spent much of the early part digging themselves into a deep, dark hole. Still, I liked the [...]
Padres Farm Report (15 May 08)
Triple-A No games scheduled in the Pacific Coast League. After a slow start, Chase Headley has picked things up a bit. He hit .242/.317/.396 in April, but is at .358/.424/.528 so far in May. The Padres’ other top prospect at Portland, Matt Antonelli, is headed in the opposite direction. He’s batting .146/.294/.220 this month… Starting [...]
IGD: Padres @ Cubs (14 May 08)
Padres (15-25) @ Cubs (23-16) Jake Peavy vs Ted Lilly 5:05 p.m. PT Channel 4SD AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 183 MLB, B-R I never noticed how severe Peavy’s lefty-righty splits are: vs RHB vs LHB BA OBP SLG BA OBP SLG Statistics are courtesy of Baseball-Reference and are through games of [...]
Three Pitchers and a Former GM
I’m kinda winging it today. We’ll see what happens… This has been floating around for a few days now, but Paul DePodesta has a blog. I’ve added it to the ol’ blogroll as well as to PadreBlogs.com. One of DePo’s first posts concerns the effects of Petco Park. The entire post is well worth reading, [...]
Padres Farm Report (14 May 08)
Triple-A — Iowa 5, Portland 2 Craig Stansberry (SS): 1-for-4 Chase Headley: 1-for-4, HR Will Venable (CF): 0-for-3, HBP Chip Ambres (RF): 1-for-4, 2B Brian Myrow (PH): 0-for-1 Josh Banks: 6 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 HR, 1 BB, 3 SO Dirk Hayhurst: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 HR, 0 BB, 2 [...]
IGD: Padres @ Cubs (13 May 08)
Padres (14-25) @ Cubs (23-15) Shawn Estes vs Jon Lieber 5:05 p.m. PT Channel 4SD AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 183 MLB, B-R Sorry I couldn’t find a more recent photo of Estes…
Falling Off the Bandwagon
We are all products of our environment. The recent environment in San Diego baseball has been one of winning. Since moving downtown for the 2004 season, the Padres have seen unprecedented on-field success. For the first time in franchise history they’ve enjoyed four straight winning seasons. In 2005 and 2006, they reached the post-season in [...]
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