This just in: The Baseball America Top 100 prospects. The Padres are well represented, with six players (only the Cubs, with seven, have more). 4. Sean Burroughs, 3B 16. Dennis Tankersley, RHP 28. Jake Peavy, RHP 39. Xavier Nady, 1B 54. Mark Phillips, LHP 77. Jake Gautreau, 2B 92. Ramon Vazquez, SS In other news, [...]
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Baseball Books Arrive
Cool new site worth checking out: www.baseballjunkie.net. Put together by some Baseball-Primer regulars, it offers a sensible, less militant brand of sabermetrics. I guess that’s what some folks might call kinder and gentler. I call it good. Have a look for yourself. Hit the mother lode today, with Baseball Prospectus, Sickels, and STATS Player Profiles [...]
WAG Projections for 2002: Padres Pitchers
Okay, here are the pitchers. Take with the appropriate buckets of salt… IP ERA BB SO Jarvis, Kevin 180 4.94 55 121 Jones, Bobby 180 5.05 52 104 Lawrence, Brian 165 3.73 52 122 Tomko, Brett 160 4.40 58 119 Tollberg, Brian 145 4.06 39 100 Middlebrook, Jason 80 4.81 34 47 Baerlocher, Ryan 75 [...]
Observations on Padres Top 30 Prospects for 2002
The final installment of the Padres Top 30 Prospects has been posted. If it isn’t too gauche to comment on one’s own commentary, I’d like to make a few observations. Despite the presence of some outstanding young talent, Sean Burroughs was an absolute no-brainer for #1. There are a lot of people who don’t believe [...]
New Minor League and Prospect Web Sites
Minor League and prospect sites are popping up all over the place. Gary Reed, formerly with About.com, has resurfaced at FloridaStateLeague.com TheMinorsFirst.com is a promising newcomer. They’ve just released their top 100 prospects for 2002. Actually, right now only the top 50 are up, with the second half to follow next week. Sean Burroughs is [...]
Happy Holidays
I meant to post this earlier, but I’m one of those people who doesn’t start Christmas shopping until December 22. Needless to say, it’s been a hectic week. This is probably my last entry for the year, so happy holidays to all. And be sure to come back and visit in January, when I’ll begin [...]
Blengino’s Thoughts on the Padres Organization
Picked up Tony Blengino’s Future Stars book the other day. Good stuff, as always. I’m preparing my own Top 30 Padres prospects, and in looking at what Blengino has to say about the organization, I was surprised to see him rank Ben Johnson as the second best prospect behind Sean Burroughs. No doubt he’s very [...]
Balsley Promoted to Double-A Mobile
Hope you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. We sure did. The food was great, and Ryan Leaf didn’t disappoint. You could see both of those fumbles coming from a mile away. What fun! Been doing a little cleanup around the site. Finally finished converting all the 1999 articles to the new design. It was kinda [...]
Baseball America’s Top 20 Prospects by League for 2001
Baseball America has done their top 20 prospects for each minor league. The Padres are well represented: Pacific Coast League. #1 Sean Burroughs, 3B; #20 Cesar Crespo, UT. Southern League. #6 Dennis Tankersley, RHP. California League. #1 Dennis Tankersley, RHP; #2 Xavier Nady, 1B; #5 Jake Peavy, RHP; #8 Ben Howard, RHP; #16 Ben Johnson, [...]
Trip to Elsinore
My buddy Dan was in town this weekend, and we caught the Elsinore game Saturday night. For the second time this week the Storm scored three runs in the bottom of the first. Both times those were all the runs they scored. Both times I arrived in the second inning. This time, behind the strong [...]
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