first pitch: 5:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Chris Young (6-3, 3.27 ERA) vs Kevin Millwood (8-3, 4.47 ERA) previews: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN Was it fair or foul? Looked foul to me and the umpires. I love this photo of Mark Teixeira. In his defense, it is very difficult to kick a [...]
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IGD: Padres @ Cubs (1 Apr 06)
first pitch: 12:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Dewon Brazelton (1-8, 7.61 ERA) vs Greg Maddux (13-15, 4.24 ERA) The Padres’ final exhibition game of the spring sees the surprising #4 starter Brazelton go up against Future Hall of Famer Maddux at Cashman Field in Las Vegas. Adrian Gonzalez, taking over for the injured [...]
Shaken and Stirred
I’ve lost track of who’s actually on the team. Not counting Ramon Hernandez, who is expected to sign with the Orioles, here’s what happened on Wednesday: Mark Sweeney to Giants: According to the U-T this is 2 years for $1.8M. Sweeney is a great bat off the bench but a liability on the bases and [...]
Boatload o’ Links
Cautionary tale from La Casa de Joven… Wife: Get a haircut, you look like Leif Garrett. Me (busting out some crazy old school moves): Hey babe, I was made for dancing. Long, awkward silence. Really. Long. Really. Awkward. Silence. Wife: Get a haircut. Anyway, some of these links are kind of old, but not as [...]
Saturday Morning Linkfest
Things pile up in the in-box. I give them to you: Frayed Peavy: ‘I’m sick of losing’ (U-T). If he didn’t pitch so darned well, he might have better results. Ask Chan Ho Park, who seems to be the new Izzy Valdez. Also, Josh Beckett has some high praise for Peavy. Padres hope to keep [...]
Prospects from 1996, Revisited – Part 4
4. Best Prospects, Best Big Leaguers (or, Fun with Tables) One question I found myself asking was which guys of the 515 in John Sickels’ 1996 Minor League Scouting Notebook were considered the best prospects, and how have they fared as big leaguers. The flip side of this is which players have become the best [...]
Prospects from 1996, Revisited – Part 2
2. Similar Prospects Who Diverged In Part 1, I outlined the motivation for this study. I also mentioned some of the types of questions we’d be trying to answer. Now it’s time to get our hands dirty. In his 1996 Minor League Scouting Notebook, John Sickels assigns each prospect a grade from A to C-. [...]
Final Thoughts on Wells
I’d forgotten how irritated I was when the Padres signed David Wells last January. To quote myself: This is the savior? This is the man to lead the Padres’ young rotation? This is a 41-year-old guy with a good appetite and a bad back. I don’t get it. This was the off-season things were supposed [...]
Big Unit Gets 4000, Padres Win
The headline may vary from town to town, but that will be the gist of it. Some probably won’t even mention the Padre victory. That’s cool. As long as it still counts as a win in the standings, folks can say whatever they want. So congrats to Randy Johnson on becoming the fourth pitcher in [...]
Go Away, Already
Before we get started, I’d just like to clarify something I said yesterday. I made a flippant comment about anti-depressants. Just for the record, I’m not actually on any medication. However, if I were, I wouldn’t deny that fact for 14 years before coming clean. Speaking of which, can we all just agree to ignore [...]
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