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Young, Giles, McAnulty Strong in Padres ’07 TV Debut

Got to watch my first Padres game on TV last night. Thanks to the magic of TiVo, I got to watch it again this morning. Yes, I forgot to set up an IGD. We’ll get the first one of the year going this Saturday for the game against Colorado. While we’re waiting for that glorious [...]

Friday Links (2 Mar 07)

Happy Friday, folks. We’re playing games again. Man, does it feel good to say that. Gonzalez contract imposed by Padres (San Diego Union-Tribune). Seems to me there are better ways to save a few thousand bucks. I sure hope this doesn’t cause problems when they try to work out a long-term deal. Hey, maybe Todd [...]

Interview: Q&A with MadFriars.com

Background The folks at MadFriars.com have been dishing out the goods on Padres prospects since 2003, when founder Denis Savage saw a need for more detailed information on Padres’ minor-league players and set out to fill it. Denis and John Conniff have just released their list of top 20 Padres prospects for 2007. Their work [...]

Spring Training Notes (21 Feb 07)

Have we hit all the cliches yet? Only a month till the season starts; better get cracking. We just need to give 110%, take it one day at a time, and stay within ourselves. And if that doesn’t work, we can always look at pretty pictures. Catcher Competition One of last year’s pleasant surprises, Josh [...]

Padres’ 2007 Opening Day Roster: Our Best Guesses

We had 21 entrants in our little contest. Here is the consensus: SP: Clay Hensley (21), Greg Maddux (21), Jake Peavy (21), David Wells (21), Chris Young (21) RP: Heath Bell (11), Doug Brocail (13), Trevor Hoffman (21), Scott Linebrink (20), Cla Meredith (21), Royce Ring (19), Scott Strickland (13) C: Josh Bard (21), Rob [...]

Friday Links (9 Feb 07)

Quick update on our guess-the-roster contest, and then we’ll hit the links. Here is the consensus opening day roster so far: C: Bard, Bowen INF: Blum, Branyan, M. Giles, Gonzalez, K. Greene, Kouzmanoff, Walker OF: M. Cameron, Cruz, B. Giles, McAnulty, Sledge SP: Hensley, Maddux, Peavy, Wells, Young RP: Brocail, Hoffman, Linebrink, Meredith, Ring, Strickland [...]

Kouz and Reminders

The 11th annual list of Sports Weekly’s 100 Names You Need to Know has been published. Who is at #6? None other than Kevin Kouzmanoff. Two passages demand comment: They have plenty of options there [at third base] if he [Kouzmanoff] fails, among them Russell Branyan, Geoff Blum and Todd Walker. Those of you who [...]

Kouzmanoff Speaks

I saw “Kevin Kouzmanoff interview” in the search logs this morning, and then an article showed up in the U-T, so I figured since we’re going to be real busy this week, now would be a good time to throw these out there: Batting Around with Kevin Kouzmanoff (MLB.com, via Teepee Talk). This is from [...]

Winter Warm-Up: Temecula

My wife and I trekked up I-15 to Temecula on Monday night for the first of several Winter Warm-Up events being held by the Padres this week. Temecula is just down the road from Lake Elsinore, home of the Pads’ Class-A affiliate in the California League, so it was a cross-promotional deal. Representatives from both [...]

Padres Pitching Projections for 2007, Part 2

We covered the Padres hitting projections on Friday and Saturday, and started the pitching projections on Sunday. Now we’ll finishing up the pitchers. Heath Bell   ERA Bill James 3.75 Chone 3.23 Marcel 4.88 ZiPS 4.08 Average 3.99 Bell has had some nice peripherals in the minors, which I suspect has something to do with [...]