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By jbox Bard, Estes and Hayhurst are all gone.  Bard and Estes elected to test out free agency while Hayhurst was picked up off waivers by the Blue Jays.  Luke Carlin and Sean Kazmar were sent to Portland.  Bard said some clubs have shown some interest in him.  The Padres have shown some interest in pick...

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Two teams call the Peoria Sports Complex home. The Javelinas, (Reds, Brewers, Yankees, Mariners and Rays) and the Saguaros, (White Sox, Mets, Padres, Nationals and Cardinals) will ensure a game will take place everyday in Peoria. (Except Sundays, which is a league wide off day).

By Dex Evan at MVN Outsider gives his opinion on what Kevin Towers could do during the off season. Evan readily admits that all of this is very unlikely to happen, but I was looking for stuff to write about and his email happened to appear and so...

By jbox Now . . . and this is hard for a native San Diegan Padres fan to admit . . . I'm actually rooting for the Dodgers to win the World Series. At least the Dodgers organization is trying to win championships. Look what the addition of Manny Ramirez has done for them.

By Denis Savage PEORIA, AZ- Sean Kazmar and Will Venable benefited from work in January with Jim Lefebvre. What are the plans for the coming season and how does Lefebvre feel about the hitting coach opening? Euclides Viloria is progressing while a position player has minor surgery. First-pitch swinging...

By jbox Oh, yes, 1984. You might remember Gwynn and the Padres went to Wrigley that October, got whacked in two games, but then came home and swept the Cubs back into misery. Do Cubs fans remember? Do they remember me?" Gwynn said. "Oh, gosh, they were so (ticked) off (Wednesday) night as I walked out. Th...

By Denis Savage PEORIA, AZ- Alvaro Aristy and Luis Domoromo were among the new additions to the Padres Instructional League on Friday. “I couldn’t be happier with the play of these kids,” Padres minor league field coordinator Tom Gamboa said. Surgery is coming for one top prospect.

 - Previous recipients of the Branch Rickey Award include Hoffman’s former Padres teammate and Hall-of-Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn, who was honored in 1995. ... Padres have decisions to make Padres.com all 8 news articles

By MadFriars.com San Diego, CA – San Diego Padres closer Trevor Hoffman has been named the recipient of the 2008 Branch Rickey Award as announced by the Rotary Club of Denver in a news conference today.

By jbox I'm so glad the Padres are taking action against Khalil Greene.  This oughta teach him to show emotion!  How dare he!  His behavior was totally unacceptable.  It certainly does not follow the philosophy of the Padres. The UT is reporting that if the Padres prorated his contract he could lose...

By Al This was the seventh single-game tiebreaker playoff game in the divisional play era. Here are the other six: Yankees 5, Red Sox 4, for AL East title on 10/2/1978 Astros 7, Dodgers 1, for NL West title on 10/6/1980 Mariners 9, Angels 1, for AL West title on 10/2/1995 Cubs 5, Giants 3, for NL Wild...

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By John Conniff WASHINTON DC: One of the more exciting Padres’ prospects that is received a September tryout with the team is centerfielder Will Venable. Venable has exceeded everyone’s expectations in his ability to consistently improve every season.

By By BILLY WITZ The Dodgers host the Giants on Monday night, and the Padres visit the Diamondbacks, meaning somebody in the National League West has to win. Which, at this point in the season, pretty well sums up the state of baseball's worst division. Somebody has to win it, right?

By Associated Press The Dodgers clinched their first NL West championship in four years Thursday without lifting a bat.

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By Corey Brock Just because Brian Giles is hitting left-handed pitchers at a higher clip this season than he ever has in his career doesn't mean the Padres outfielder has suddenly figured out the secret to hitting lefties. Giles can't explain success vs. lefties

By Jim McLennan Must-win Game, #1 in a series of five. Collect the entire set! If not quite technically a must-win, with the Dodgers magic number still up at three, this is pretty much where the ride stops for Arizona. It is almost essential for the Diamondbacks to W out from here, and it would be very helpful i...

By royhobbs My dad saw this guy, and he immediately called him the "Fat Gonzalez." Adrian Gonzalez taking a mighty cut.  Just to show how good he is at everything he's supposed to be doing, he grounds into a 4-6-3 with authority, quickly negating Giles' walk just a minute prior.

By e chigliak Jesus “Everyday” Colome vs Matt Antonelli. Antonelli tips stike three into Luke Montz’s glove. Will Venable pops out to Zimmerman foul of third. Colome throws a two-strike heater by Edgar Gonzalez...Three outs to get four runs of Padres’ reliever Cla Meredith. Dukes K’s swinging. Kory Casto gr...

By e chigliak When the Washington Nationals acquired Lastings Milledge from the New York Mets back on 11/30/07, MLB.com writer Bill Ladson quoted, in article entitled, "Nationals acquire Milledge from Mets", a then-22-year-old Milledge, who explained why he thought it was best for him to play ce...

By e chigliak San Diego starter Chris Young held the Washington Nationals off the board over 7.0 scoreless innings tonight, and before he was done, Young took a break from dominating DC batters to hit the first HR of his Major League career on a bomb into the left center bullpen in the top of the seventh.

By e chigliak John Lannan has one career start against the Padres under his belt, a 5-2 Nationals' loss in which he received no decision in the third of three in San Diego during Washington's visit to PETCO Park from 5/27-5/29, which saw DC drop two of three to SD and then two of three to Arizona to finish th...

By e chigliak Levale Speigner gets Antonelli to fly out start the thirteenth. Speigner vs Brian Giles with one down. Giles grounds to second. Adrian Gonzalez flies out to left....Guzman flies out to left field. Scott Patterson’s back out. Ryan Zimmerman pops out. Milledge draws a two-out walk to bring up Dukes. W...

By e chigliak On The Hill...San Diego Padres at Washington Nationals... Jake Peavy - (9-11, 2.77 ERA) vs Collin Balester - (3-6, 4.54 ERA) Nationals' #'s Against Jake Peavy... Aaron Boone - 1 for 5, .200 AVG, 1 HR, 1 RBI.  Kory Casto - 1 for 3, .333 AVG, 1 2B, 1 RBI.  Ryan Zimmerman - 3 for 10, .300 AVG, 2 2B, 1 RBI. 

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Manny, Dodgers Bludgeon Padres, Extend NL West Lead: Dodgers 7, Padres 2 Manny homered twice in this one, the first a solo shot in the fifth, and the second a two-run homer in the ninth that just cleared the high fence in front of the sandbox in right-center. But the Dodgers didn't even need th...

By Administrator In 1957, the Braves’ Warren Spahn’s set a major league record for shutout thrown by lefty (41). In 1973, after 11 years at the helm (944-806 .539), Ralph Houk resigned as manager of the NY Yankees. ‘The Major’ would manage the Detroit Tigers in 1974.

San Diego, CA -- (Sports Network) - Jody Gerut had three hits, including the game-winning RBI single in the eighth, as San Diego defeated Arizona, 5-4, to complete a three-game sweep of the NL West-leading Diamondbacks. Nick Hundley hit a two-run homer while Edgar Gonzalez and Chase Head...

By Jim McLennan Yes, Brandon Webb rolled imperiously to his major-league leading nineteenth victory, with seven innings of shutout ball, that also reduced his ERA to 2.74, third-best in the National League, trailing only Volquez (2.73, 15 wins) and Lincecum (2.60, 13 wins) - and the gap is narrowed, or wi...

By Jim McLennan 38 games to go, and the old adage that the baseball season is a marathon not a sprint, is becoming increasingly less applicable. It's getting to the stage where things are simple enough: whoever wins the most games over the next six weeks, out of ourselves and the Dodgers, will get into the pl...

By Travis Nelson The San Diego Padres have reportedly traded RHP Greg Maddux to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The deal is unofficial right now, and no terms have been announced, though it's expected that the Padres will receive one or two mid-level prospects (i.e. not much). 1) The Padres suck,

By Scott Malone With teams like the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and the Los Angeles Dodgers all going through a youth movement of some sort, each will be well equipped for the future years. In September the Dodgers have the advantage in September, pla...

The high-80s velocity of Chris Young’s fastball would suggest that the six-foot-ten 29-year-old is a finesse pitcher, but the fact that he has as many strikeouts as innings pitched this year tells a different story. Young has struck out at least eight batters per nine innings each year si...

By Jim McLennan Here's a little snippet I was forwarded, that sheds a light on why we've struggled so much this season, and why we went out and got Jon Rauch. According to Santo Lombarbarda of the Elias Sports Bureau, through Monday, only one team in the majors had a lead through six innings more often than th...

There are times when you can almost hear the momentum of a game shift. It's uncertain if the sound is caused by the collective sighs of the fans, or if it truly is the air being let out of a teams sails. But that particular moment happened with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning in Wednesday'...

By Glenn Darby NATIONAL LEAGUE 3B - Nomar Garciaparra - Los Angeles Dodgers SS - Troy Tulowitzki - Colorado Rockies LF - Eric Byrnes - Arizona Diamondbacks CF - Andruw Jones - Los Angeles Dodgers RF - Justin Upton - Arizona Diamondbacks SP - Barry Zito - San Francisco Giants

By Phillip Kern Arizona Diamondbacks Los Angeles Dodgers San Francisco Giants San Diego Padres Heading into the season, no one on the roster not named Jake Peavy, Trevor Hoffman, or Adrian Gonzalez impressed me very much.  This franchise has suffered through some very poor drafts in recent years.   Colo...

By jbox Jon celebrated his birthday last night at the ballpark.  His two favorite teams were playing: the San Diego Padres, who he barely roots for because he says they suck after opening day and the Seattle Mariners because he has family in Seattle and he has an unhealthy crush on Ichiro.

Buster Posey, C, San Francisco Giants Other names to know: Trevor Holder RHP, Florida Marlins (10th Round); Stephen Dodson, RHP, Colorado Rockies, (10th Round); Nathan Moreau, LHP, Baltimore Orioles (11th Round); Ryan Peisel, 3B, Colorado Rockies (12th Round).

By Majesh Abraham It was an eventful week for the Cubbies, as they looked to silence all the critics that complain about their “woeful” road record as they faced the Padres and Dodgers in the wilderness that is SoCal. Zambrano only trails Soriano and Soto in slugging percentage for Cubs regulars. Maybe Big Z s...

MLB Gameday Fangraphs Live Scoreboard The San Diego leg of the Mets’ current road trip can certainly be classified as a disappointment. The Mets have pretty much shut down San Diego’s most dangerous hitter (Adrian Gonzalez has a single and a walk in nine plate appearances), the Padres’ tw...

By royhobbs So a week ago, I embarked on a West coast trip out to California to continue on my quest to visit all the Major League Baseball parks.  Southern California gave me the opportunity to knock out three parks, but only if planned correctly.  So two days prior to my San Diego visit, I saw the Dodgers d...

By Phantom Khalil Greene, shortstop: Drafted 13th out of Clemson University in 2002, Greene was the third shortstop taken by the Padres in the first round in six years. Finally, they got the right one. Greene won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 2004, is among the best defensive infielde...

By Sammy G Season got you down?  Have you realized that the team you have invested so much time following through the past years, reading updates from the owner’s meeting, debating at length is free agent X will put the Padres in the World Series, spring training trips, etc. are all culminating in a po...

Lately most Padres fans would turn off the TV or radio if the team was losing 2-1 after the first inning. But since Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy was on the mound, they might stick around to see how he pitched. The result was a 7-2 win over the Florida Marlins.

By Dex San Diego Padres @ Florida Marlins 05/02/08 4:10 PM PDT San Diego PadresFlorida MarlinsBrian Giles - RFAlfredo Amezaga - CFTadahito Iguchi - 2BJeremy Hermida - RFAdrian Gonzalez - 1BHanley Ramirez - SSKevin Kouzmanoff - 3BMike Jacobs - 1BKhalil Greene - SSJorge Cantu - 3BScott Hairst...

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By Jim McLennan Conor Jackson got hit by the Padres, something which the Padres post-game host, Bob Scanlan, strongly approved: "You've got to send a message, not just to Conor Jackson but to that entire Arizona Diamondback ball club.  You want to swing hard like that?  Do it against the Dodgers.  Do it aga...

When a big-league game finishes with a 1-0 score, you know that pitching is a key factor in the outcome. And with Greg Maddux taking the hill en route to his 349th career win, followed by four shutout innings from the Padres embattled bullpen, there was no shortage of high points for those who...

By Brian McTaggart(brian.mctaggart@chron.com) Vincent Sinisi, the former The Woodlands High and Rice University star, has returned to Texas, if only for a few days. Sinisi is the right fielder of the Portland Beavers, the Class AAA affiliate of the San Diego Padres. The... Sinisi is the right fielder of the Portland Beavers, the Class AAA af...

By Leitch It's the St. Louis Cardinals at the San Diego Padres. Your starters are Weaver for the Cards and David Wells for the Padres. It's a Yankees fan's dream matchup. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Adrian Gonzalez = stud. Bard K. Padres gone. We miss the skinny high school David Wells.