January 6, 2010 – 5:23 am
The penultimate installment in my “Players Worth Remembering” series is up at Hardball Times. San Diego (well, El Centro) native and former PCL Padre Bob Elliott tops the list of third basemen, while original NL Padre Nate Colbert merits an honorable mention at first base.
Also, this year I’m playing in BP Kings, a Scoresheet Baseball [...]
September 19, 2008 – 5:20 am
Last week I mentioned an all-time Padres team that I’ve been assembling. This wasn’t just an intellectual exercise. Our friends at Seamheads are running a simulation league this off-season with the best players from each big-league franchise, and they invited me to submit a 40-man roster for the Padres.
Most of the choices were fairly obvious [...]
By Geoff Young
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Posted in Baseball
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Also tagged benito santiago, bip roberts, eric show, fred mcgriff, gary sheffield, gaylord perry, gene tenace, ken caminiti, luis salazar, roberto alomar, ryan klesko, wally joyner
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August 15, 2008 – 7:57 am
I was hoping to have some original content today, but it’s been a long week at work and I haven’t been able to formulate my thoughts on various topics as well as I’d have liked. Here are a few things I’m wondering right now:
Why did Chase Headley suddenly discover plate discipline on June 12 (zero [...]
By Geoff Young
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Posted in Notes and Links, Open Thread
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Also tagged chase headley, cheryl ladd, cubs, jake peavy, mississippi state, nate robertson, optimist, padres, rafael palmeiro, tigers, tim stoddard
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Right now there is exactly one reason to watch the games, and his name is Adrian Gonzalez. I wonder if this is what it was like to root for the Padres back in ‘72:
Player
Team
Player/Team
HR
RBI
HR
R
HR/HR
RBI/R
Statistics are courtesy of Baseball-Reference and are through games of June 3, 2008.
Nate Colbert, 1972
38
111
102
488
.373
.227
Adrian Gonzalez, 2008
17
55
49
222
.347
.248
1972
Nate Colbert: 38 HR, 111 RBI
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