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Wild Volquez Leads To Long Night In Loss To Mets
Edinson Volquez has turned in some brilliant outings in his short time with the Padres, but has also been maddeningly wild in others. Put Saturday nights start in the latter category. Volquez lasted just…Read More
Blanks to Have Surgery, Miss Rest of Season
Padres outfielder Kyle Blanks, who was bothered by right elbow problems all year and went on the disabled list May 17, will have Tommy John reconstruction surgery on the elbow and miss the rest of the…Read More
Portland Pounds Out 21 Runs on 32 (!) Hits
The Padres’ AAA Portland affiliate is the worst team in the 16-team Pacific Coast League, at 39-62. You wouldn’t know it from their game against 48-54 Las Vegas Sunday night, as they absolutely…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
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Has Bud Black Got the Message About Blanks?
Kyle Blanks is not in the lineup today against lefty Jonathan Sanchez. For about a week, he was improperly…Read More
Baxter’s Bat Cooling Off
Triple-A outfielder Mike Baxter batted .360/.500/.500 in April, and it looked like the 25-year-old might…Read More
Blanks to the Minors?
The Padres are losing patience with Kyle Blanks and his 44.8% strikeout rate. Blanks is batting just…Read More
Where Does Mike Baxter Fall on the Quad-A Spectrum?
I’m not much for biases in baseball, or at least I try not to be, but I do openly admit to one:…Read More
How ‘Bout That?
So I take a couple of days off from writing here at Chicken Friars, and the Padres extend their winning…Read More
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