Jedd Gyorko presents the 2013 San Diego Padres

These guys are probably interesting enough to deserve their own thread. I have to admit I have barely been paying attention to baseball early on but my Padres are on a nice little stretch lately. What do you guys think from afar? Anyone jump out atcha?

I think they definitely have an impressive roster as far as potential for offense goes.

(Not just saying that because they scored twelve runs today!)

Four games back.

Make that TWO. Love this team.

Yeah they're pretty nifty. Thinking about picking up MLB.tv for the remainder of the season.

Putting together pretty substantial lineups even with four guys (Quentin, Alonso, Gyorko, and Cabrera) out.

some hellacious defense in that game last night

Local radio guy speculated about Jason Marquis as their All Star Game representative. Could happen.

Luke Gregerson is another guy that's been mentioned. Would be cool to have your set-up guy make the team.

Cabrera seems hugely underrated this year

Cabrera would be a great all-star pick but then again, Biogenesis.

http://www.yorkblog.com/southpaw/files/2012/06/jerry-coleman.jpg

RIP Jerry Coleman!

Jerry Coleman led a very interesting life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXMbbQUqDQ

lol Omar Minaya

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/6/22/5832596/josh-byrnes-fired-padres-mlb

Ugh they're talkin about bringin Kevin Towers back.

Enough of that loser

27-year-old Cuban defector Odrisamer Despaigne debuts on hill tonight

Hahn, Despaigne, or pray for rain

Haven't allowed a home run in 60 innings.

The Padres are secretly trying to convince the Giants to keep Lincecum in the rotation. Very subtle trolling.

I think I will be able to catch Despaigne on my visit a week from Sat.

Everth Cabrera has blown past all position players in HACKING MASS and 2 points from dethroning Ricky Nolasco from the overall "lead."

San Diego had one hit Monday and finished batting .171 as a team for the month.

well that was certainly a game of some kind.

whoever designed Petco w/ sun setting in LF should be shot. I baked for 3 innings before retreating.

also, gulls shitting on Sec 301.

Francoeur up!

bahahahahaha

lmao

http://deadspin.com/jeff-francoeurs-teammates-prank-him-again-1609642620

I knew that bump was coming

frenchy sighting!

Padres are a dumpster fire on the offensive side but Cashner, Despaigne and Tyson 'paid the cost to be the boss' Ross aren't a bad pitching nucleus.

poly do you have any hope of this team being contenders in the next 4-5 years?

You left out Ian Kennedy and Jesse Hahn, who have both been very good. And until recently we had a nice setup/closer in Street and Benoit. So pitching is not the problem. (It rarely is.)

Contenders in the NL West or for the Wild Card? Sure, who knows. Contenders for the title? No way. The only guy on the roster who can hit reliably this season is Seth Smith. Most of their better minor leaguers are pitchers imo.

If they're going to build a contender in the short term they'd need to sign hitters, and (a) hitters don't want to play in Petco, (b) they already have spent way more on payroll than at any time I can remember. And they have a lot of needs.

One thing I've often wondered about is why Petco teams have such low OBP, historically. The stadium shouldn't affect your ability to work the count, or hit the gaps. But I think pitchers take advantage of the park effect to challenge hitters to hit the ball out of the park, and they fall into the trap. I see that as less of an issue now since the team is actually built around gap power rather than homer power (with the exceptions of Carlos Quentin and formerly Kyle Blanks), but that approach hasn't worked either ... arguably not because of the strategy but because the hitters themselves have failed. Ultimately, regardless of strategy, whether they're sluggers or singles hitters, you need them to hit, and they haven't been hitting.

Yesterday was fun though.

feel bad for Jason Lane losing 2-0 in his starting debut after being binned in 2007

not sure how you juice offense in that park.. the fences are one thing but the marine layer is deeeeeeeeeep down there in SD at 7pm.. maybe more day games?

I didn't realize he was the former hitter! I thought he was just some career minor leaguer.

I only remember him because I was a prisoner in houston for a big chunk of 2006 working on a trial

I should have remembered his two plate appearances for the 2007 Padres but I'm slippin'.

shld just juice balls differently in every stadium, apparently climate has a bigger effect than dimensions

and park factors are more than just HRs, petco is also usually at the bottom for singles and doubles. BBs are more random i think but that's only a part of OBP. but parks can affect everything for weird, different reasons. sometimes climate affects pitch movement, sometimes there's a weird light in left field that makes certain pitches hard to see, sometimes white backdrops hide the ball when the pitcher is throwing from the stretch, sometimes audience sound actually changes things etc.

~.~e.P.a.N.d.Y.o.U.r.M.i.N.d~.~

Yonder Alonso (forearm) will not play again in the 2014 season, Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. (Sun Aug 17)

noooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

this padres team is completely different from the one that got no hit earlier pre-asb.. some of these young guys look like they have actual upside.

and jerko decided to not be dogshit anymore

yeah the new team is way more fun than the april team