sdsporting blogged something interesting today on orting.blogspot.com.
Here’s a quick excerpt:

As much as we all didn’t like Barry Bonds, perhaps the most unpopular baseball player of all time, he did get one thing right.
“Baseball proof” is how Bonds described San Diego’s Petco Park after his first appearance in the spacious stadium.
For proof, just ask Jody Gerut of the Padres.
He hit a fly ball 399 feet against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night that would have been a grand slam anywhere else in baseball.
Instead, Alex Romero made a terrific over-the-shoulder basket catch at the fence to rob Gerut and preserve Arizona’s 3-0 win.
If the game had been in Arizona, the ball would have landed in the pool beyond right-center for a grand slam. In other parks, it would also have been well beyond the wall.
In San Diego, it reopened the controversy about whether they should move the 400-foot fence in right-center closer to home plate.
The answer, without argument, is “yes.”
Just think […]
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So the Padres are sellers instead of buyers this year.
What goods do they have to sell?
We saw the answer was “not much” when Tony Clark was traded back to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a minor-league pitcher.
After all, what else could you expect to get for someone batting .239 with one home run and three RBI in 88 at bats?
Now the Padres’ most likely candidates to go are pitchers Greg Maddux and Randy Wolf.
When you consider their recent fates, it’s doubtful they could bring much more than Clark in a trade:
Maddux: He’s winless in his last 12 starts and has been the victim of some bad luck. But when you consider he couldn’t hold a 3-0 lead against Minnesota at Petco Park last month, some of it is certainly on him.
Wolf: In his last six starts, he’s 1-5 with a 6.82 ERA. Considering he tends to be injury prone in the […]
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I saw an interesting post today on orting.blogspot.com.
Here’s a quick excerpt:

The Kansas City Royals could be the best team in the west.
Make that the NL West.
The Royals now reside in last place in the AL Central. But if they moved to the NL West, it would obviously be a different story.
It’s no coincidence the Royals are on a three-game winning streak … it’s because they are playing teams from the Weak, Weak NL West.
In fact, Kansas City is 5-2 overall against the NL West.
The Royals won two of three against both the Arizona Diamondbacks (on the road) and San Francisco Giants (at home) before Monday night’s home win against the Colorado Rockies.
Luckily for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, they don’t have to play the Mighty Royals this season.
Much of Kansas City’s success is due to closer Joakim Soria, who already has 20 saves. Yes, this is the same Soria the Padres let go to Kansas City in […]
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