Location: San Diego, Calif. | Ballpark: PETCO Park (42,685) | Spring Training: Peoria, Ariz.
Owner: Jeff Moorad | GM: Kevin Towers | Manager: Bud Black | World Championships: 0
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POWER RANKINGS
Power Rankings
Date
Ranking
Previous
07/07/2009
29
27
If David Eckstein is as tough and gritty and hard-working as we've been told, how come he's on the DL now with a hamstring pull? Huh? We've been LIED to, people.
06/30/2009
27
29
Given his .191/.277/.271 line, Brian Giles did the Padres a favor by getting hurt. The team must be 325 times more pissed off now than they were last July about his rejection of a trade to Boston ... As for how the San Diego crowd will react to Manny on Friday, who cares? Much will be made of the inevitable booing and "ste-roid! ste-roid!" chants, but don't wake me unless the fans do something extraordinary, like turn their backs en masse when Ramirez approaches the plate or sneak a confetti bazooka into the park. Those things are awesome.
06/23/2009
29
29
Pop quiz, and no cheating: Which of the following isn't a player currently on the Padres' active roster: Josh Geer, Walter Silva, Roger Bernardina or Dame Everth Cabrera? Answer next week.
06/16/2009
29
22
Chris Young can't throw strikes and Jake Peavy can't walk. The possibility that the Padres might shatter the 70-win ceiling was premised on their competence and physical welfare, so look for things to spiral downward in a hurry ... In particular, Young has fallen apart of late. He's lost velocity and his mechanics look like something out of a Shawn Bradley Dance Party! instructional video ... At least Kevin "Kooz Moe Dee" Kouzmanoff has started slugging a bit, taking advantage of the fact that opponents are (smartly) pitching around Adrian Gonzalez.
06/09/2009
22
21
Opponents are starting to get the hint that pitching to Adrian Gonzalez is more likely to result in a negative outcome than a positive one. He was walked 16 times during the team's just-concluded seven-game homestand. ... Sunday's 18-inning loss was obviously brutal, but the Padres must've been amazed to see desperation fill-in Josh Wilson, a shortstop, throwing harder in the last frame than several of its other relievers did before him. The guy had a passable hook and change-up, too. Versatility is right up there with prudence among my favorite personality traits.
06/02/2009
21
18
Unless you chimed in when they lost 19 of their previous 23 games, please stop telling me that the Padres deserve more love in the wake of that 10-game winning streak. OK? ... They've been outscored this season by 32 runs. That suggests that they're more bad than good. Until we have evidence to the contrary, let's stick with our (optimistic at the time) preseason prediction of 72 wins.
05/26/2009
18
28
Expect the Jake Peavy stuff to quiet down, as lobbying for a trade in the middle of a 10-game win streak is bad form ... Word on the street -- fine, in the Chicago papers -- is that the Cubs are considering a deal for Kevin "El ConKooztador" Kouzmanoff to fill their third-base vacancy ... I don't know how we can view David Eckstein's successful suicide-squeeze bunt on Sunday as anything other than proof of superior moral character.
05/19/2009
28
29
A sweep of an above-.500 team is nice, but they're still the opposite of good. ... Freed from Petco's mountainous swells and moon-swept vistas, Adrian Gonzalez might hit 94 home runs. ... Imagine having to watch the Padres play for 16 whole innings, as 472 unfortunate fans did on Saturday night? The government seems to be tossing around a lot of cash nowadays; maybe it can divert a few dollars toward counseling for traumatized season ticket-holders.
05/12/2009
29
27
They're bad, boring and indifferent to their fate -- that's the pathetic-baseball trifecta ... What are the odds that Kevin Kouzmanoff has ever been nicknamed anything other than "Kooz"?... The current slumps are almost heroic: Brian Giles is 5 for his last 44, Jody Gerut is 9 for his last 54 and Kooz is 10 for his last 59. And there's nobody in the minors to spell them, and the team is too broke to import able-bodied major leaguers. Sad.
05/05/2009
27
19
Adrian Gonzalez is really good. Really, really, really, really good. Really really really really really. Every other regular? Not so much ... I keep reading that the San Diego bullpen is "full of questions," but I can only come up with one or two. Like "why don't they have better relievers?" Or "would it be possible to locate better relievers?"
Preseason Power Rankings
Date
Ranking
Previous
02/16/2009
27
-
The Padres have less talent than the teams ranked below them, but at least the talent is well-tailored to the offense-deflating park they play half their games in. ... Any team with both Cliff Floyd and David Eckstein on its roster can only be described as "intangiblicious". ... I like a bunch of the spare parts -- especially in the bullpen, where the quartet of Heath Bell, Cla Meredith, Justin Hampson and Chris Britton should outperform most other relief corps. Combined, they'll be paid something like $2.5 million less in '09 than long-ball magnet/Ted Nugent disciple Kyle Farnsworth. ... Kevin Kouzmanoff would put up monster offensive numbers if he played anywhere else, but his decidedly unsubtle Hulk-smash approach isn't suited for Petco.
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