The good news is the Padres managed to finish .500 on their six-game jaunt to Atlanta and Miami. And they didn’t go down without a fight in Sunday afternoon’s game against the Marlins. The bad news is Adam Eaton is scuffling. Some interesting splits: by inning, 2004 Inn AB R H 2B 3B HR BB [...]
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What a Difference a Series Makes
Disappointing series in Phoenix. Those pitching match-ups sure looked favorable on paper. But that’s why they play the games. I was talking to a friend the other day who noted that people tend analyze things more closely when they’re not going well. He thought it might be instructive to take a closer look during good [...]
Kotsay for Hernandez
Hadn’t planned to be away from the blog for so long this time. I started to scratch something together the other day when the Giants went out and picked up A.J. Pierzynski, because I figured that move might impact the Padres. And it did. When last we met, I mentioned that I expected Kevin Towers [...]
Least Surprising News of the Off-Season
Sorry ’bout yesterday. Sometimes that happens. On the bright side, it did inspire some of you to write. I guess that whole Spam thing did come off as kind of a cry for help, didn’t it? Anyway, I’m okay. The Padres re-upped Trevor Hoffman. After pulling in $9M for 2003, Hoffman is guaranteed $2.5M for [...]
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! New look is pretty scary, ain’t it? Ah, the joy of CSS. Don’t worry, it’ll all be back to normal soon enough. My latest article is up over at Primer: Baseball Primer’s 2003 Managers of the Year. Feel free to chime in on the relative merits of Alan Trammell or whatever. Seriously, if [...]
Giving Away Phillips
What the heck, I haven’t done a good rant in a while. Okay, there was the Junior Seau riff the other day but when you get down to it, that was just football. So, if you missed it, the Pads acquired Rondell White from the Yankees. Yep, Kevin Towers finally found a taker for Bubba [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 5
In my discussion yesterday of Mike Rivera, I forgot to mention Gary Bennett. He’s also in the running for one of the two catching spots. My early guess is that Bennett and Rivera split time, with Wiki Gonzalez and his contract being traded before the season. Steve Violetta Thanks to regular reader Dan Walls for [...]
Comps for Jake Gautreau
Back from Vegas. Almost bailed out on my excursion to Big Bear due to rain, but figured since it was pouring all over SoCal it didn’t really matter which way I went. So I took a drive through the mountains, and I’m glad I did. Saw one of the more spectacular rainbows I’ve seen outside [...]
Fried Twinkies, Arizona Fall League, and Servers
In the “Disgusting-But-I-Just-Might-Have-To-Try-It” department, we have fried Twinkies. Yikes… Blogging is kind of like a virus that just keeps on spreading. I ran a Google search on Ducksnorts, and here are some sites that link to me: Hoo Boy! Cleveland Indians Report Detroit Tigers Weblog America’s Pastime Casa de los Padres People’s Republic of Seabrook [...]
Padres April Wrap
by Geoff Young on May 05, 2003 (0) Comments
Why even bother with an official scorer? Xavier Nady hits a lazy fly ball to center in the 10th on Friday night that Ricky Ledee loses in the lights; ball clanks off Ledee’s glove and it’s ruled a hit. Then Saturday night, Mike Lieberthal hits a ducksnort to right that Nady has to run a [...]