Clubhouse Leadership Part Three: Mark Kotsay Edition
It’s a tie game. Leadership has one point, and chaos has one point. It’s up to Mark Kotsay to put leadership ahead once again. In 2010, the Padres had a clubhouse full of leaders. Players…Read More
Matt Stairs Signs With Nationals
Former San Diego Padre OF Matt Stairs signed a minor league contract with the Nationals and has an invite to spring training. Stairs played in 78 games last season and had a batting average of .232 with…Read More
Matt Stairs Activated, Aaron Cunningham Demoted
In a head-scratching move, the Padres have activated reserve outfielder Matt Stairs from the disabled list and optioned young outfielder Aaron Cunningham to Triple-A Portland. Can somebody explain why…Read More
Stairs to the DL, Cunningham Up From Portland
Matt Stairs has been placed on the DL with a knee injury possibly caused when he picked up his second stolen base of the season earlier this week (Yeah, yeah, Matt Stairs hurt himself on the steal, do…Read More
Sometimes, We Don’t Know How Good We Have It
Yesterday, I was looking at the lineups for the Padres-Dodgers game, and I was annoyed that “M. Stairs, LF” appeared in the fifth slot of the order. The case for Stairs being on the roster…Read More
Padres Keep Winning; Thatcher Activated
The Padres keep rolling in first place, putting the Reds away early today and winning 10-4. Matt Stairs…Read More
Denorfia/Stairs Redux
I’m not letting this go. Thus far, Chris Denorfia is hitting .480/.519/.760 in Triple-A. He also…Read More
Huffman Designated For Assignment
It’s been known for about a week that spring training non-roster invitee Matt Stairs would ultimately…Read More
Padres Roster Down to 26
The Padres made three cuts today. One, catcher Chris Stewart, was far from surprising. The other two,…Read More
A Few Quick Statistical Observations
We’re finally a few games into spring training, to the point where several players have begun to…Read More
Notes From the Padres’ 1st Spring Training Game
If you didn’t realize it, the Padres (FINALLY!) had their first game today. We don’t have…Read More


