After a much-needed off day on Monday, the Padres head to Phoenix for a midweek series. We’ll see three potentially excellent pitching matchups: David Wells vs Randy Johnson on Tuesday, Jake Peavy vs Brandon Webb on Wednesday, and Chris Young vs Livan Hernandez on Thursday. Speaking of pitchers, the Padres are back down to a [...]
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IGD: Padres @ Diamondbacks (30 Sep 06)
first pitch: 1:10 p.m., PT television: FOX matchup: David Wells (2-5, 4.80 ERA) vs Juan Cruz (5-6, 4.27 ERA) previews: Padres.com | SI.com | ESPN buy tickets Despite every outcome working against the Padres on Friday night, Baseball Prospectus has their odds of reaching the post-season at 95.8% with two games remaining. Clay Hensley made [...]
IGD: Padres vs Diamondbacks (20 Sep 06)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4SD matchup: David Wells (2-4, 4.71 ERA) vs Edgar Gonzalez (1-3, 5.26 ERA) preview: Padres.com buy tickets In honor of Jake Peavy and David Wells’ drive home to San Diego after Monday night’s loss in Los Angeles: Bad company And I won’t deny Bad Bad company Till the [...]
San Diego Padres Organizational Tree
How the current Padres got here. Idea blatantly ripped off from Will Young (no relation). More details here. m Key: Italics = acquired via trade. Bold = drafted by Padres. General manager who acquired player denoted by initials in parentheses (where no initials are provided, Kevin Towers is the GM): RS = Randy Smith, JMI [...]
ROY Watch: Greene/Bay Showdown, with Charlie Wilmoth of Value Over Replacement Blog
So much for going out with a bang. Pads dropped two out of three to the worst team in baseball to finish the season. On the other hand, I did see something in the finale I don’t believe I’ve ever seen. In the sixth inning, both clubs had runners on second and third with nobody [...]
My All-Star Teams vs Actual All-Star Teams
First off, thanks for all the well wishes. I’m doing fine, nothing is wrong; just needed some time off. I’m still on hiatus, but the All-Star teams have been announced and I just had to say something. First I’ll give you my picks, then I’ll kibbitz about the actual picks, then I’ll go back into [...]
Winter League 2000: Mexican Pacific League
The so-called “Winter Leagues” feature an odd mix of bright young prospects honing their skills, former prospects hoping to get their careers back on track, and veterans just playing out the string. In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the prospects and former prospects and see who’s on their way up. In [...]
There’s No Crying in Baseball
I’m really glad the World Series ended the way it did. Now we hopefully won’t have to hear anymore nonsense about what a horrible series it was because (a) the best teams weren’t in it, (b) the games were sloppy, and/or (c) the pitchers couldn’t throw strikes. On the first point, if the “best” teams [...]
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