Brain dump today. Thoughts on Sandy Alderson, Ken Caminiti, Ramon Hernandez, Xavier Nady, Tim Redding, and others. I had a lot of links today, so I grouped them by subject; hope that works for you… Sandy Alderson Alderson’s jump to Padres a major loss for MLB (USA Today). Hal Bodley’s piece is pretty fluffy but [...]

Baseball: Sandy Alderson Father Alderson on Mission to Help Padres (Padres RunDown). Peter offers his thoughts on the Alderson signing. Alderson makes quick impact (Padres.com). Catcher Ramon Hernandez, whose already slim chances of signing a long-term deal with the Padres would appear to have taken a major hit with the addition of the cost-conscious Alderson, [...]

Taxes are done; woo-hoo! I owe the government money; woo-hoo! Anyway, you know the routine… Gary Garland of Japan Baseball Daily provides some interesting comments on the Hideki Irabu piece from the other day, among which are this gem: By the way, here is a little scoop for you Padres fans: they will be scouting [...]

A few quick items today… Jersey issue creates stir around Roberts (Padres.com). Don’t let the photo fool you; he’s still a Padre. And this is a non-issue: The guy is getting a ring; who cares what he’s wearing? Nady clearly knows his role with Padres (NC Times). We all know his role: It is to [...]

Stuff’s been piling up on the virtual desk again. Here you go; now it’s your problem… Rain, Fogg and a loss at home (U-T). No run support for Brian Lawrence, as Pads lose, 3-2, to Pittsburgh. On the bright side, Ryan Klesko hit a bomb to the right-center on a damp night. He also had [...]

PRD interviews Baseball America’s Kevin Goldstein. Peter has a real nice talk with Goldstein about the Padres farm system. Greene a shortstop of a different color (Padres.com). Terrific article on Everyone’s Favorite Shortstop (TM). Great quote from Mark Loretta: “I’ve tried to describe him a lot of different ways, but he’s just kind of a [...]

Needless to say, we didn’t make it to Elsinore. Anybody out there have a report? Anyway, here’s some stuff that’s come across my desk over the past few days: Sabernomics Simple Projection System. What it says. He also has projections for pitchers. Storm roster nearly final (NC Times). Jeff pointed us to this in the [...]

Nady ready to start Opening Day (Padres.com). He’ll be in the lineup Opening Day against Joe Kennedy, just not sure where. Nady went 3 for 5 with two doubles and his fifth homer of the spring, a three-run walkoff shot in the bottom of the tenth, in Tuesday’s 13-12 win over the Rangers. Roberts’ painful [...]

While I’m gearing up the BTF Padres preview, it’s just links for a while. Read ‘em. Read the guys over on the right. Lotta good stuff out there. Klesko undergoes MRI on throwing shoulder (NC Times). This is not the shoulder he had surgery on at the end of 2003. Burroughs happy to give up [...]

A few items of interest… For those of us who grew up reading Bill James, Rich Lederer has posted a terrific interview with the man who brought the Baseball Abstract into the world and got so many of us starting to think more deeply about this great game. There’s so much information here that I’m [...]