Three heavyweights, Geoff Young, Rich Lederer, and Mike Rogers, all weigh in on the Jake Peavy trade.
Geoff makes a good point, one that I tried to make in my last post:
Snark aside, the larger point is that the trading of established stars for unproven youngsters is not the hallmark of a bad baseball organization. [...]
Archive for the ‘quick hits’ Category
5 Aug
Quick hits: 8/5
17 Jun
Quick hits: Draft recaps
Geoff Young has some thoughts on the Padres’ draft, among other things, in his must-read weekly post.
Peter Friberg interviews prospect expert Johns Sickels about the draft. Sickels is pretty optimistic about the Padres’ selections, and he thinks all three early high school picks (Tate, Williams, Sampson) will sign.
At Mad Friars, John Conniff interviews Kevin Goldstein and Jim [...]
9 Jun
Quick hits: Draft notes
Chris Jenkins has a good read on the Padres’ choices in the first round. Fuson:
“I’m certainly not afraid to take risk (on a high school player),” said Grady Fuson, the Padres’ vice president for scouting and player development. “I don’t know where people got that idea. I’ve been involved in signing Ben Grieve and Eric [...]
4 Jun
Quick hits (6/4)
Quick hits: a random assortment of links …
Adrian who? Adrian Gonzalez is finally starting to get some attention. That’ll happen when you hit a home run once every 10 PAs.
Speaking of Gonzalez, Daniel Gettinger takes a look at Adrian’s home runs using the invaluable Hit Tracker and batted ball data.
Padres draft review: Marc Hulet reviews [...]
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