Years ago I picked up a book by Mick Goodrick called "The Advancing Guitarist." I tried to read a bit of it back then and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Then a few weeks ago we decided to rearrange our living room and box up and/or give away a bunch of books. One [...]
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Prospects at Elsinore
I don’t have anything profound to say after watching the Texas/Anaheim game last night. What else is new, right? I sure am glad baseball is back. Caught the Pads’ final exhibition game Saturday night at Elsinore. Jake Peavy dominated his old team, as he should have. Xavier Nady hit a long homer to left, for [...]
"Stars of the Future" Game
Grabbed some bagels and coffee, filled up the tank. Picked up my buddy Jeff at his place, hit the freeway a little after 7:30 Sunday morning. Got to Yuma around 11:15 local time. Realized we had no idea where the stadium was. Stopped at a Circle K for directions; the woman who helped us seemed [...]
Recovering from Yuma
Okay, before you start throwing things at me, I have a good excuse for not writing today. I was in Yuma for the Padres’ "Stars of the Future" game and I’m still recovering. Highlights included a mammoth Jake Gautreau homer off former Brewer closer Doug Henry, good pitching from Cory Stewart and Justin Germano, and [...]
Giving Away Phillips, Part Two
I’m not done yet. Oh no, I haven’t even gotten started. Before we get into that, I’d just like to congratulate Brad Holland and the USD men’s basketball team on a great, great season. Yeah, they got bounced from the NCAA tourney in the first round but this was their first trip to the dance [...]
Beavers and Hoffman
Renewed my Storm mini-plans yesterday. Life is good. I’m looking forward to seeing the latest crop of young pitchers in the system: Justin Germano, Jon Huber, Javier Martinez, Tom Lipari, Nobuaki Yoshida. Should be fun. Portland Beavers Jonathan over at PDX Beavers is doing an in-depth preview of the 2003 Portland Beavers season: An Early [...]
Ken Burns, DIPS, Sleepers, and Prospects
I promised baseball today, and that’s what I’ll deliver. First off, here are a couple articles worth reading: An Interview with Ken Burns (Alex Belth’s Bronx Banter) Defense Independent Pitching Statistics for 2002 (Futility Infielder) These are gems. I hate to admit it, but I haven’t seen Burns’ "Baseball" (although I’ve seen some of his [...]
Padres Top 20 Prospects for 2003: 1-10
Sorry for the delay, folks. Bit of a crisis at work this morning. Servers have a way of crashing at the most inopportune times. I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment, so this will be my last posting till probably the middle of next week. In the meantime, you’ve always got… Blogs, [...]
Justin Germano, Part Deux
TV Guide has named Diana Rigg the sexiest TV star of all time. One of my other non-baseball vices is The Avengers so this pleases me to no end. . . . Two stats I like to look at are PQS and Qmax. Each of these measures a pitcher’s effectiveness on a game-by-game basis. Let’s [...]
Padres April Wrap
by Geoff Young on May 05, 2003 (0) Comments
Why even bother with an official scorer? Xavier Nady hits a lazy fly ball to center in the 10th on Friday night that Ricky Ledee loses in the lights; ball clanks off Ledee’s glove and it’s ruled a hit. Then Saturday night, Mike Lieberthal hits a ducksnort to right that Nady has to run a [...]