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I think they need to unload the FRONT ORIFICE....what a waste of time Prior was.....why do they go after has been talent instead of putting out a little$$$$$$ for some "A" players......we need a couple of people that can swing a bat and hit HOME RUNS!.......sure it's a pitchers park, but shouldn't you also have bats so when a team like Minnesota or St. Louis come to town you can compete?......I am a SD native and it kills me that we have never won a World Series or a Super Bowl........at least the Bolts are in the hunt now...but the Pads.......start at the top...and CAN TOWERS!
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"Not the best time to be a Padres fan, let's hop it doesn't get worse!" Bummer WestCoastBBQ, it's got worse! Definately a poor season, to say the least, for our Pads. Lots of talk about trading Kouzmanoff, I think though that he's still young and has potential to become a solid 25+ HR guy, if Headley can become comfy in the OF... As far as Khalil Greene goes, we should have traded him in the offseason when he had maximum value. In the end I point the finger directly at Moores. He and his henchmen said all along that if the city of San Diego funded a downtown stadium that they would then be able to compete cashwise and bring in some big name talent. Since then they've brought in the likes of Jody Gerut, Jim Edmonds, an aging but albeit solid Greg Maddux, and the list goes on and on. Where's the big name, hardcore YOUNG talent that was promised? Moores has evidently forgottten all about those promises underneath the bucketloads of cash he's making. I love my Padres and always will but I'm very sour on ownership. Next he'll be trying to bring back Tony Gwynn, although knowing Gwynn he'd still bat over .300!
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The Padres are bringing back right-handed pitcher Brett Tomko for a third tour.
Cut loose by the Royals 11 days ago, Tomko is to join the team's bullpen. With the Royals he was 2-7 with a 6.97 ERA in 16 games, 10 of them as a starter.
General Manager Kevin Towers often has said that pitchers should benefit from moving to the National League from the American League, where they must face a designated hitter. He also has said several times that San Diego's low-key enivorment and pitcher friendly ballpark should benefit Tomko, who has above-average fastball speed but also has given up more homers than he would like. He gave up 11 home runs in 60.2 innings with the Royals this season to go with 13 walks and 40 strikeouts.
Tomko, 35, was 2-1 with a 4.61 ERA for the Padres last season. He failed to hold two leads in the season's 162nd game in Milwaukee and said in March that he felt partly responsible for the club's failure to clinch a playoff berth.
"There are a couple of ways Brett fits in," said Padres manager Bud Black. "He gives us a true long man in the bullpen, someone capable of working up to 50 pitches over three or four innings."
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Here's a rundown of the top starting pitchers who could be available for trade at the deadline ... from Jon Heyman at Sports Illustrated...
1. Sabathia.
2. Rich Harden. A's GM Billy Beane is always willing to shake things up, and Harden, whom one GM calls "high risk/high reward'' is his most interesting case. At his healthiest, he's "one of the top five pitchers in baseball.'' But how often is he even healthy?
3. Eric Bedard, Mariners. He's exacerbated his rep as soft and prickly in his half season in Seattle. Even worse, he's not throwing nearly as well as he did in Baltimore.
4. A.J. Burnett, Blue Jays. Ultra-talented perennial disappointed already has declared he'd welcome a trade to the Cubs with "open arms.'' Could be great for a stretch run or he could be his usual injured or disappointing self. A total crapshoot.
5. Freddy Garcia, free agent. Working hard to come back and just began letting it loose. He's a big-game pitcher, and if his shoulder is fit, he'll help somebody by August or September.
6. Randy Wolf, Padres. Solid guy but another of the brittle bunch. "He seems to expire at 125 innings,'' one GM said.
7. Greg Maddux, Padres. He can still pitch, but he loves it in San Diego, and one person close to him said he doubted he would accept a trade elsewhere (and that apparently includes even his beloved Cubs or Braves, or the convenient Dodgers, the three other teams he's pitched for in his illustrious career).
8. Kevin Millwood, Rangers. He's getting toward the end of his big deal, and Texas has a host of young pitchers coming. Vicente Padilla is another possibility to go.
9. Joe Blanton, A's. Beane might have waited too long on this one. He's viewed as no better than an "innings eater'' at this point.
10. Jarrod Washburn, Mariners. One of many tainted to be part of the Mariner debacle, he's better than his 2-7 record would indicate.
11. Bronson Arroyo, Reds. Ten runs in one inning against Toronto in last start won't help his value.
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In case you missed it, from Tom Krasovic at the Union-Tribune...
Concerned about the results of a physical exam, the Padres have backed off on finalizing a deal with their recent first-round pick, first baseman Allan Dykstra.
Terms of a signing bonus had been agreed to before Padres doctors examined the 21-year-old Wake Forest star, even though the Padres had been aware of hip surgery that sidelined Dykstra during his career at Rancho Bernardo High.
"I'd rather not discuss the medicals; that's basically private stuff," Vice President of Scouting and Development Grady Fuson said Thursday. "Obviously we do have a couple of concerns, but we're not even close to figuring it out."
Fuson said the chances remain "good, real good" that the deal gets done. "Something got to our attention in the physical that we just want to slow this thing down," Fuson said. "I still feel good about it. We're just slowing things down a little bit. It's going to take a while to get all of the information that we need."
The two sides had agreed on a signing bonus of about $1.4 million. With the Dykstra deal up in the air, negotiations with other draft | |
