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Is Padres' Gonzalez on block?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Is Adrian Gonzalez as good as gone? It depends on who you ask, but the signs are pointing in that direction. Bill Center: Gonzalez is committed to t...

Blog | November 09, 2009

Wednesday Wangdoodles

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...in, and Grady Fuson's out. Shocking. My guess is that there's still room in San Diego for someone like Fuson, but maybe not for so much like Fuson. * Yeah, I know ... The...

Blog | October 28, 2009

The last time they played...

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...2-1. The Yankees won 3-2 in Game 3 and won the finale 5-2. San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman, who played second base for the Yankees in that Series, said the...

Blog | October 27, 2009

Padres hiring new GM?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

According to SI.com, Jed Hoyer will about to become the Padres' new general manager: Hoyer, 35, most recently served as the Boston Red Sox's senior ...

Blog | October 23, 2009

A's Forst not a Padres GM candidate

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...general manager David Forst is in the mix to become the next general manager of the San Diego Padres. The A's said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on...

Blog | October 08, 2009

Are changes afoot in San Diego?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune's Bill Center, the Padres might soon have a new general manager ... In...

Blog | October 02, 2009

Parsing the Pirates' streak

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...bad teams that stayed bad. There were a number of bad teams in the 1970s -- Montreal, San Diego, Milwaukee, California, Cleveland and Philadelphia all had a sizable stretch of losing seasons. The Mets, Kansas...

Blog | September 08, 2009

Finding a home for the A's

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...people there, which is just slightly more than Philadelphia and Houston, but twice as many as San Diego, St. Louis, and Tampa-St. Petersburg, and significantly more than twice as many as six other...

Blog | September 03, 2009

Gregg out as closer, but who's in?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Well, the shoe finally dropped. And in San Diego, of all places ... The Kevin Gregg era ended late Monday night in San Diego, where a...

Blog | August 18, 2009

ChiSox out-splash Tigers and Twins

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...the White Sox made the biggest splash: The Chicago White Sox acquired Jake Peavy from the San Diego Padres for four players. The Sox sent pitchers Aaron Poreda, Clayton Richard, Dexter Carter and Adam...

Blog | July 31, 2009

A's swipe Hairston from Padres

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...win for Oakland here. Can't say I'm a fan of whatever plan San Diego is putting in place. My only problem with Hairston is that he's 29 and...

Blog | July 06, 2009

Waiting for the kids ...

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...very different case. He had a full year in HA Lake Elsinore, a full year in AA San Antonio and nearly 300 pa's in AAA Portland. That's not really an accelerated...

Blog | June 26, 2009

Tuesday Taters

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...39;re doing or who's on your fantasy team. As The New Enthusiast notes, San Diego's Kyle Blanks is one of those very occasional players. • Francisco Liriano's...

Blog | June 23, 2009

M's Gutierrez looking Golden in CF

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

In last night's game in San Diego, Felix Hernandez was working on a one-hit shutout in the bottom of the seventh when...

Blog | June 17, 2009

Projecting Strasburg

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...ploy. According to Clay Davenport of Baseball Prospectus, had Strasburg been pitching for Washington instead of San Diego State this year, he would have compiled a 3.54 E.R.A. (which would rank...

Blog | June 15, 2009