The bad news is, Phil Nevin is expected to miss two to four weeks following surgery to repair torn cartilage in his right knee. Xavier Nady has been recalled from Portland to take Nevin’s spot on the roster. Ryan Klesko moves back to first base, with Terrence Long getting the bulk of PT in left, [...]

First off, I’m a little behind in my e-mails. If you’ve sent me something recently and I haven’t responded yet, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. I actually do read everything you send, which is great because you guys have boatloads of interesting stuff to tell [...]

First off, let’s get this out of the way: That was a horrible, horrible way to lose a game yesterday. One out from a shutout of the Yankees on their home turf. Boom. Boom. So much for that. My hope for the Pads on this road trip was that they would win at least one [...]

Once again, I find myself disappointed when in past years I might have been happy. Three wins in six games on the East Coast sounds pretty good, especially when one of your opponents is in first place in their division. But every one of those games in Pennsylvania was winnable. The Padres should have swept [...]

A win is a win is a win. And Wednesday night’s performance was better than Tuesday’s sluggish effort, which was too reminiscent of the 2003 squad for comfort. But some concerns linger. Brian Lawrence had his second straight strong outing, but his final line looks better than he did. Although he issued just one walk, [...]

So the Padres finished April with a 15-9 record. Granted, they played struggling clubs such as the Giants, the Expos, and the Mets. But unlike in some recent seasons, they dominated these struggling teams and in the end found themselves tied for the division lead. As Bialystock and Bloom would say, "Where did we go [...]

Maybe extending a pun across three languages isn’t the best idea, but these are the Expos and this was the third straight night Trevor Hoffman came in to close out the game, so what the heck. Let’s get a little crazy. The Padres completed a four-game sweep of MLB’s problem child, the Montreal/San Juan Expos. [...]

In what is becoming a theme of sorts, the Padres once again came back from a late inning defecit to win at home. I can tell it’s becoming a theme because with the Expos ahead 4-2 going to the bottom of the eighth, I just kind of expected the Pads to at least tie the [...]

Pads win, 9-5. Brian Lawrence looked good early. That fastball he buried up and in on Michael Tucker for a strikeout to end the third was impressive. Surprised the heck out of Tucker, that’s for sure. Lawrence still worked behind in the count too often and had trouble with location. It’s early in the season, [...]