The Morning Friar – 2/22/11

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The outfielder hit .251 with 17 homers and 69 RBIs last year for St. Louis and San Diego, which finished two games back of World Series champion San Francisco in the NL West.

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Jorge Cantu came with side-street numbers to San Diego, where he looms as a main-street run producer.

Pitching-dependent and offensively-challenged, even when Adrian Gonzalez‘s big bat was in their lineup, the Padres approach a new season as relative twigs in a Major League forest of redwoods.

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Padres closer Heath Bell tested his injured left calf in a bullpen throwing session Monday and declared “not feeling the calf at all” following the 31-pitch workout.

The side outing was the first baseball activity of Spring Training for Bell, who had strained a muscle in the calf prior to the first workout of San Diego batterymen last Monday.

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By the time Jaron Madison’s playing career ended at Long Beach State in 1998, complete with a trip to the College World Series, he was certain he wanted to work in professional baseball.

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Under blue skies, the Padres are going through their first uninterrupted full-squad workout Monday at the Peoria Sports Complex.

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