Oscar Taveras, Mike Darr, Halloween, and you
Oscar Taveras, a promising young outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, passed away recently after being involved in an automobile accident while driving to his hometown in the Dominican Republic. […]
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Recently in Bullshit: Ted Leitner on Bruce Bochy & Bud Black
Anyone who knows Ted Leitner knows he has a penchant for excessively utilizing superlatives to describe individuals who don’t deserve those superlatives. If you catch a standard, three-game Padres series on […]
10/20/2014 Podcast: A Season Recap / Free Agency Primer
Topics: Yasmany Tomas Free agency and trades Andrew Friedman in Los Angeles (and Josh Byrnes, too!) The World Series You listen at the direct .mp3 link here: click Subscribe on […]
How to offseason: a coherent plan to compete in 2015
Before I get to how I would offseason – it’s a verb now – if I were the Padres, let me lay down some ground rules for this exercise. The […]
Handicapping the Yasmany Tomas (Excuse) Race
For the last week or so, Padres land has been inundated with Padres fans (and its media) begging the Padres to sign Cuban defector Yasmany Tomas. I won’t delve into […]
Padres mouthpiece tips that the Padres won’t sign Tomas
The chief mouthpiece of the Padres, Corey Brock, has basically tipped off that the Padres will not be signing Yasmany Tomas. I base this on what Corey Brock has said […]
The Fourth Podcast: #BSPodcast
The agenda: #BSPlaza SD Social Media Summit September call-ups Burrito Bet #2 Yasmani Grandal trade rumors In addition to playing the link below, you can also listen to the the podcast […]
Ranking the Padres: 11-15
Continuing the series from where we left off: 20. Nick Vincent 19. Michael Gettys 18. Taylor Lindsey 17. Joe Ross 16. Joaquin Benoit And now, Padres 11 through 15. 15. […]
Ranking the Padres: 16-20
In previous posts, I covered the Padres who currently have negative value and those whose value is so close to zero that we should just consider them valueless. Today, we […]
Amarista legitimately better at shortstop?
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth on Twitter regarding the use of Alexi Amarista. There was some pushback to my assertion that his value is zero, as I stated in our […]
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