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2014 Team Preview: The San Diego Padres are not the most talented team in the...
Truth be told, the 2014 Padres look like a last place team. That said, there is a reason they play the games.Maybe it's their location, but the San Diego Padres seem like one of the more forgotten...
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Cub Tracks Clamors For More Baez
With Starlin Castro sidelined, the calls for "MORE BAEZ" are getting even louder. He and the other prospects are trying to be patient while showing good attitudes. Meanwhile, Dale Sveum has no regrets,...
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Red Reposter - Pitching Depth & Billy Quix
In honor of Mardi Gras, we parade through the Reds news of the day.Ben Lindbergh took a look at Billy Hamilton over at Grantland. If the Reds and/or Hamilton had hoped to sneak into 2014 under the...
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03/04 Padres Preview: ST Game 7 vs. Arizona
With their first win of the Spring in their back pockets, our Padres are back in Peoria today to face off against another NL West opponent, the Diamondbacks. In his second start of the Spring, Eric...
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ST Game Thread: 03/04 Padres vs. Diamondbacks
Hopefully all the alkaline water Carlos Quentin has been guzzling will help him lead our Friars to a second straight victory today.It's Fat Tuesday (or as I like to call it, Gaslamp Balldi Gras!) so...
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Padres Pinch Some Pennies, But Get Everyone Under Contract
With everyone finally under contract, a couple of players won't be getting as much as they did in 2013.The players on the roster that haven't made it to their arbitration years, let alone their free...
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Byrnes Announces 22 Agree to Terms for 2014
The 40 man roster is now under contract for the upcoming seasonAs of yesterday, the 40-man roster is now under contract for the 2014 season after the San Diego Padres agree to terms with 22...
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Spring Training Game #9: Gameday Thread
The Diamondbacks hit the 101 North this morning, heading round to the Peoria Sports Complex to face the Padres, with Delgado making his second start of spring. table.oldschool { border-width: 1px;...
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Diamondbacks 8, Padres 6: Snakes Slither Out Of Slugfest On Top
Today's good news: Carlos Quentin launched a bomb to left field in his first at bat of the spring. Yonder Alonso also hit his first homer of the spring, and Everth Cabrera hit two doubles in his three...
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Diamondbacks 8, Padres 6: Release the bats
After a few games where our pitching was definitely better than our offense, it was nice to see the hitters come through. They knocked out a spring high 15 hits, and needed most of them to edge the...
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Katie Osborne is confirmed as new Fox Sports San Diego reporter and POV host
Katie Osborne unwittingly just kept leaving us clues on her Twitter timeline that she was coming to San Diego to become Fox Sports' new reporter and Padres POV host. To solve the Mystery of the...
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Top 10 prospects in the NL West: Preseason Edition
Spring Training has begun, so let's take a look at top prospects in the NL West trying to make a name for themselves this spring.I wanted to do this before spring training started, but whatever. I'll...
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Famed squatcher backs Padres PA announcer finalist
I don't think I mention this much on the blog but I'm really interested in cryptozoology, the paranormal, conspiracy theories and aliens. Probably more so than baseball.  In fact long before we...
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Jedd Gyorko: Error Magnet
Error cards come in many forms. Better-known variants include reversed negatives or a photograph of the wrong player, but most errors are less glaring and slip through the cracks. Jedd Gyorko has...
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NFBC ADP Rankings Analysis: Starting Pitchers
Ray takes a look at the recent average draft position (ADP) data from NFBC for starting pitchers. Let's see how the rankings from the Fake Teams writers fared vs the NFBC ADP rankings.Today we take a...
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SnakeBytes: Runs! edition
Good to see a few runs cross home-plate for the Diamondbacks yesterday; seems the hitters were a little behind our pitchers prior to that. Can they keep it up in this afternoon's televised game? Also...
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Can Yonder Alonso and Tommy Medica Be A Platoon?
Alonso and Medica both play 1B and hit from opposite sides of the plate. This is an idea worth exploring.With Maybin out at least two months and the Padres already likely to carry 5-6 players capable...
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03/05 Spring Training Game Thread: Padres v. White Sox
After a high-scoring loss to the Diamondbacks yesterday, the Padres are back in action today against the White Sox. Andrew Cashner gets the ball for his second start of the spring and is expected to...
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Gamethread: White Sox vs. Padres
Webcasts are back, but Jose Abreu is notBeyond the Cactus League opener, Jose Abreu has been an elusive figure on White Sox webcasts. (And since the first webcast had technical difficulties, he wasn't...
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Padres Beat White Sox 8-0
The Padres scored early and scored often in Wednesday afternoon's game at Camelback Ranch. Andrew Cashner was electric in his second start of the spring and got help from a multitude of bats.Everth...
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