As you may have surmised from the title of this blog, I’m a big fan of quirky baseball terminology. With that in mind, I’ve got an idea for a phrase we should start using. Physics has Schrodinger’s cat. Baseball should have Gardenhire’s cat. This term would be used to describe seemingly irrelevant details provided in [...]
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Chase Headley and the Art of the Comp
Reader TexPadre recently posed the following question: When will Chase Headley show a decent amount of power? Or will he ever? Headley, you may recall, was the subject of much hype in spring training 2008. He had just come off a monster season (.330/.437/.580) at Double-A San Antonio and people got a little silly, mistaking [...]
Third Door on the Left/Patchwork Pitching Staff Blues
You are in the wrong place. You want hope — third door on the left, just past apathy and before foolishness. Take a good look at what you cannot have. It is written that the Padres will be terrible this year, and what is written must be true. Cancel the games, record them as losses, [...]
Writing the Book (3 Nov 08)
Wanderlust strikes again. I’m plotting my 2009 baseball trip… something to do with Tucson, San Antonio, Austin, Albuquerque (I am determined to see a game there after missing twice on the way to Cooperstown and back in ’07), and a return trip to the Grand Canyon. I’m thinking some time around Memorial Day, but we’ll [...]
Padres Farm Report (24 Apr 08)
Triple-A No PCL games scheduled. Double-A San Antonio @ Frisco, postponed. High-A — Lake Elsinore 6, High Desert 1 Javis Diaz: 1-for-5, 2B Robert Perry (CF): 0-for-4 Eric Sogard (DH): 2-for-3, BB Rayner Contreras: 1-for-3 Mitch Canham: 3-for-4, 3B Nathan Culp: 6.2 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 HR, 0 BB, 2 SO (12 GO) [...]
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