Nice of me to show up on a Friday, eh? Here are projections for Padres hitters according to the Bill James Handbook 2007 (affiliate link), as well as the freely available Chone, Marcel and ZiPS systems. I also have included a line averaging the systems. A few general observations are in order: Bill James appears [...]
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Wednesday Links (3 Jan 07)
Slow news day, so we’ll run our link roundup a little early this week. Before we do that, though, a quick update on the book: I just finished Chapter 3 yesterday, and I’m about halfway through Chapter 6 (I’m working out of sequence in part because the Hall of Fame vote hasn’t taken place yet [...]
Sledge to Bat Leadoff?
A Bill Center article in this morning’s San Diego Union-Tribune suggests that Terrmel Sledge could lead off for the Padres in 2007. Quoth manager Bud Black: We’ve talked about the possibility of Terrmel in that role and when you look at the statistics, there are indications he can do it. Black doesn’t explicitly mention what [...]
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Marcus Giles Is Coming to Town
The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that the Padres have signed second baseman Marcus Giles to a 1-year deal worth $3.25 million with incentives that could kick that up to $4.25 million. There’s also a club option for 2008 at $4 million. Giles still has to take a physical, but if the U-T is saying [...]
NLDS: Padres – Cardinals Series Preview, Position Players
Okay, this took a little longer than I’d anticipated. Having first examined the pitchers, we now turn our attention to the position players. Catcher There are two huge positional mismatches in this series, and catcher is the first. Padres catchers led the NL with 31 homers and were second to the Atlanta Braves with 107 [...]
Padres Month in Review: August 2006
The Padres went 13-15 in the month of August. Despite outhitting the opposition, .248/.326/.385 to .246/.305/.377, and again outhomering them, 26 to 23, the Pads managed to be outscored, 107 to 105. Adrian Gonzalez (.248/.333/.386 in 101 AB), Josh Barfield (.220/.273/.374 in 91 AB), and Mike Piazza (.203/.268/.344 in 64 AB) all scuffled, and Mark [...]
I’ll Drive Myself Home, Thanks
The other day I was looking at Mike Piazza’s batting line and noticed something weird. Dude has 18 homers this year, but only 28 runs scored. Granted, if he gets on base late in the game and the Padres are leading, Rob Bowen will run for him (which explains his 20 runs scored despite all [...]
IGD: Padres vs Nationals (5 Aug 06)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: Mike Thompson (3-3, 4.34) vs Pedro Astacio (2-1, 5.23) previews: Padres.com | SI.com buy tickets After Friday night’s 6-2 loss at the hands of the Nationals, the Padres are now 26-31 at home this year. Only three teams (Braves, 22-28; Cubs, 23-31; Royals, 23-31) have a [...]
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