The Official San Diego Padres Thread! Whoo Ya!

Supposedly the Padres are going to get a good Triple A pitcher to be named later.

 

Adrian will be in the home run contest.

http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/news...ent_id=5732700&vkey=news_sd&fext=.jsp&c_id=sd

 

Do not shoot the messenger. Listening to local radio today the Padres might not be done trading vets. If they are looking to dump salary, Heath Bell, Adrian Gonzalez, and Brian Giles could be looked at. Darren Smith called the Padres the Pirates on the West Coast. Giles should of never been signed this year. There are a lot of fans here that are not very happy with the teams trade of Scott Hariston, and the front office. Could be even more empty seats in the stadium. I wish Scott the very best in Oakland. He was a class act here.

 

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stor...review-diamondbacks-correia-davis2255/?padres

Now 17-17 against lefties, the Padres' chances against left-handers could become more difficult after the trade of Scott Hairston to Oakland. Hairston was hitting .360 against left-handers with a .435 on-base percentage.
Overall, the Padres are hitting just .231 against left-handed pitching. Take Hairston out of the formula and that drops to .227.

 

Very true brother, and the farm system to put it fairly stinks.

 

Bro the new ownership can't do too much right now because they don't have full control of the club yet. John Moores is going through a costly divorce right now. Troy Aikman is one of the new owners, and I have heard him say he is up for spending money when it is needed. He said if you don't spend money wisely you won't have anyone in the seats.

It really sucks for the new management coming in is that our drafts and developement of players has been very bad. I look for more house cleaning in the future in the organization. Grady Fusion who is in charge of the farm system needs to be gone in my book. There is only so many holes you can patch at one time, as us Dolphin fans know.

 

I don't like Alderson either. His baseball philosophy stinks for Petco Park. Bell from the Mets, Gonzalez from the Rangers.

 

http://www.mighty1090.com/common/global_audio/40/9676.mp3

 

Can we throw in the towel for season already? This has been a brutal season.

 

Everth Cabrera is fun to watch.

 

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/21/n1131442230-padres-marlins/?padres

Gonzalez wants to stay, but ...

First baseman understands trading him could fill holes, and he longs to be on a winner


Indeed, if he also were the club's general manager, Adrian Gonzalez might trade himself.
“To a certain extent, I don't disagree with people who say the best thing for the Padres is to go out and get a bunch of people for me,” said Gonzalez. “If you're looking at it from an ownership standpoint, I think there's a lot to it, just because of where the team is and everything.
“Would I want to be traded? No. Is it to a team that has a chance to win the World Series? I'd have to be intrigued by it. Know what I mean?

I really like Adrian a lot, but for him and the team it would be best to get him to a contender. This organization, and the farm system are a disaster right now. This organization needs a severe house cleaning.

 

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/23/padres-drop-13-front-office-firings74648/?padres

Padres drop 13 from front office

“The Padres are getting leaner and meaner, doing everything they can to create additional resources to put into the product on the field,” Moorad said before leaving to join the team in Washington this weekend. “We needed a greater focus, more tunnel-vision focus on revenue. To be fair, the national economy has had an impact and made it more challenging.”

Among the 50 home games they've played – more than half of them losses – the Padres have drawn the 14 smallest crowds in Petco Park history. With an average crowd of around 24,000, the Padres are on pace to draw under two million fans for the first time since the strike-shortened 1995 season, and they've never finished below 2.4 million since Petco Park opened in 2004.
Clearly, ticket sales and performance in business partnerships figured into the dismissals. Also fired were the directors of marketing, corporate communications and business public relations.

 

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/07/26/sports/padres/z30d164179f66b19a882575fe00195174.txt


PADRES: Err apparent: Padres must reverse their mistake-ridden draft history if the franchise fortunes are to improve


That's why a team like the Padres, choosing third in the amateur draft in 1982, picked Texas prep pitching star Jimmy Jones and passed on Dwight Gooden.

It's why, picking eighth in 1991, the Padres took pitcher Joey Hamilton when Shawn Green and Manny Ramirez were on the board.

It's why the Padres grabbed catcher Ben Davis with the second pick in 1995 when they could have had Kerry Wood or Todd Helton.


They have a two page spread in the paper from 1969 to current drafts. If any baseball organization wants to learn how to draft right, just do the opposite of the San Diego Padres, and you will be successful. Look at some of the horrible picks above. Hopefully this off season the sweeping changes continue.

 

Here is more Brother Padre that is not in teh internet article.

Worst first overall picks

2. Matt Bush SS 2004 by the Padres

Best Drafts over the last 10 Years

26. San Diego Padres 468 picks, 33 players to majors.

The Padres will keep or even go cheaper on payroll, they must get the very utmost out of the draft. I think that GM Kevin Towers shouldn't have anything to do with the draft if he stays, scouting director Bill "Chief" Gayton, and Farm Director Grady Fusion should be gone. These three have been together since 2006. Gayton and Towers go back to 2001.

 

Another problem is they believed to to draft college kids, and stay away from Boras players. That right there has killed us in the past. They have always tried to draft the cheaper players. If we are not going to spend the money later, we mine as well do our very best homework, and spend it up front.

 

MLB Trade Rumors

The reports are the Dodgers are making runs at Adrian Gonzalez, and Heath Bell. Darren Smith just passed this out on XX 1090. I just thought I would pass this along. Red Sox are supposed to be interested in Adrian as well.

 

The Padres supposed have lowered there demands for Adrian and Heath.

 

http://www.mighty1090.com/pages/main

 

Angels, and Marlins interested in Bell as well.

 

You can start a thread. It was all about Padres players, so I figured I would move it in its thread.

 

Supposedly Peavy to White Sox for a group of minor leaguers.

 

Peavy to White Sox for 4 minor leaguers. Carter was one name I caught.