The Padres have claimed former Orioles “first baseman” Walter Young off waivers. Young is listed at 6’5″, 322 lbs. Yes, you read that right. According to the recently released Lahman Database v. 5.3 (hat tip to Baseball Musings for the reminder on that), Young is the heaviest man ever to play big-league baseball. For the [...]
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2005 in Review – Relief Pitchers, Part 3
Before I forget, let me first wish everyone a safe and happy new year. Posting will be light the next couple of weeks as I put the finishing touches on Ducksnorts: Best of 2005 (at 239 pages and counting) and work on some other projects. But I’m getting ahead of myself. We were talking about [...]
2005 in Review – Relief Pitchers, Part 1
I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be digging my way out from under the leftovers for a while. Meantime, we can talk about relievers. Trevor Hoffman, as usual, picked up the saves, but it was Scott Linebrink who anchored the Padres bullpen in 2005. Akinori Otsuka and [...]
Towers Leaning?
I have avoided talking about this too much because it’s mostly been speculation, but the Kevin Towers-to-Arizona thing seems to be gaining momentum. I know a lot of folks think the Padres can do better than Towers at GM. Me, I’ll believe it when I see it. “Getting rid” of Towers doesn’t accomplish anything unless [...]
Friday Notes
Slow news day. Go nuts. Giles, Padres make progress on long-term deal (FOXSports). According to this report, “the difference between the sides is ‘significant’ but ‘not vast.’” Thanks. That tells us absolutely nothing. D-Backs begin GM search (MLB.com). Kevin Towers either has or has not been interviewed. I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Can’t [...]
Playoff Preview: Padres vs Cardinals
So the Padres will play the Cardinals in the first round of the playoffs. Let’s take a little look at this here series. For those of you joining us who don’t follow the Pads, welcome and I’ll see if I can help introduce this team to you. For those of you who hang out here [...]
Playoff Roster Decisions
In Thursday’s comments, dprat pointed to John Maffei’s take on the playoff roster. Here is his “best-guess scenario” along with my reactions: P: Jake Peavy, Adam Eaton, Woody Williams, Pedro Astacio, Brian Lawrence, Akinori Otsuka, Rudy Seanez, Scott Linebrink, Clay Hensley, Trevor Hoffman I think he has this about right. I would set up the [...]
IGD: Padres vs Giants (28 Sep 2005)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m., PT television: Channel 4 matchup: Pedro Astacio (5-10, 4.85 ERA) vs Jason Schmidt (12-6, 4.29 ERA) Sure, the Giants have Barry Bonds. But they don’t have Ramon Hernandez. They don’t have Clay Hensley or Scott Linebrink, either, although many moons ago they did. And for once, J.T. Snow‘s glove actually helped [...]
IGD: Padres @ Diamondbacks (25 Sep 2005)
first pitch: 1:40 p.m., PT television: Channel 4 matchup: Woody Williams (8-12, 5.07 ERA) vs Javier Vazquez (11-15, 4.57 ERA) preview: ESPN | Padres.com You know what would be a ballsy move that won’t happen? Stick Clay Hensley in the playoff rotation behind Jake Peavy and Pedro Astacio. Here’s how Hensley and the guys who [...]
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