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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 [...]
Friday Links (8 Dec 06)
Happy Friday, folks! Have some links: I am honored to participate — along with Tom Goyne of Balls, Sticks, & Stuff and Joe Hamrahi of Baseball Digest Daily — in this week’s Friday Five over at D.A. Humber’s Baseball Central. Big thanks to D.A. for the invite and for asking such thought-provoking questions. Black likes [...]
Maddux Comes to San Diego
Okay, people know who Greg Maddux is, so I can’t just make stuff up on this one. As you probably are aware by now, the Padres have signed Maddux to a 1-year deal worth $10 million that includes a player option for 2008 which will be worth $6-10 million depending on 2007 performance. With the [...]
Kevin Towers: Deals of 1995-96, Part 1
One section of the upcoming Ducksnorts book will focus on trades made by Kevin Towers during his tenure as Padres general manager. I’m still in the process of taking inventory of every deal he’s made, and eventually I’ll include his five best and five worst trades in the book, along with analysis of each. For [...]
Black Named Manager, Barfield Dealt to Cleveland
Pretty uneventful day, huh? Somehow I get the feeling “uneventful” is not a word that will ever be used to describe Sandy Alderson’s tenure with the Padres. And it’s nice to see that Kevin Towers isn’t content to rest on any laurels after receiving a contract extension. You might want to sit down for this [...]
Ducksnorts Book Excerpt: 2006 Game of the Year: Barfield Homers into the Night
The following excerpt is taken from the upcoming Ducksnorts book, tentatively scheduled for February 2007 publication. This is part of a chapter that focuses on the Padres’ 7-5 victory over the Rockies on September 4, 2006, at Petco Park, courtesy of a three-run homer off the bat of rookie second baseman Josh Barfield with two [...]
Playoff IGD: Padres vs Cardinals (5 Oct 06)
first pitch: 1:09 p.m., PT television: ESPN matchup: David Wells (3-5, 4.42 ERA) vs Jeff Weaver (8-14, 5.76 ERA) previews: Padres.com | ESPN buy tickets Two in-season acquisitions hook up this afternoon at Petco Park, as fans of both teams try to figure out how to accommodate MLB’s decision to schedule NLDS games during the [...]
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 [...]
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