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The San Diego Padres Top 100 Prospects: #100–Chris Stewart, C

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:35:23 +0000

Name: Chris Stewart Position: Catcher DOB: 2/19/82 2010 Level(s): Portland (AAA) We kick off the Chicken Friars Top 100 Padres Prospects with the oldest player who will appear on the list, 28-year-old Triple-A catcher Chris Stewart, who’s seen a bit of time with the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, and Chicago White Sox in past [...]

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A Quick Rundown of Weekend Padres Moves

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:43:08 +0000

The Padres made a few rather trivial moves over the weekend. They don’t deserve their own post, so I’ll just run them down here:

Righty Erik Davis was demoted from Portland to Lake Elsinore after making one Triple-A spot start. The outing went well (7 K, 2 ER in 5 IP), but it wasn’t enough for Davis to get more chances.

Lefty Mark Hardy was sent from Lake Elsinore back to the AZL after making one spot start in place of Davis. He threw four shutout innings but ran into trouble in the fifth, allowing three runs.

Lefty Josh Spence was promoted to Eugene from the AZL to take Matt Lollis’ (who was promoted earlier in the week) rotation spot. He threw three solid innings in his first start.

Outfielder Rico Noel, who had been on the DL in Fort Wayne, was activated and demoted to Eugene, where he could get more playing time. Noel had hit just .136 in 12 games in Fort Wayne.

So…that’s that. Nothing particularly unexpected or major, just some things to be aware of, I suppose.

Portland Pounds Out 21 Runs on 32 (!) Hits

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:08:07 +0000

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 destroyed the 51′s by a whopping 21-4 score.

What gets me isn’t so much the 21 runs–it happens–but the 32 hits the Beavers put up.

32 hits! The team went 32-for-57 (they hit into two double plays)! That’s a .561 average!

If that’s not enough, consider that every player in the lineup except Lance Zawadzki got three or more hits.

Cedric Hunter was 4-for-7. Craig Stansberry was 4-for-6. Mike Baxter went 4-for-7. Kyle Phillips and Wily Mo Pena were both 5-for-6 with a walk. That’s right, the first five hitters in the Beavers lineup had at least four hits each.

From there, Nick Green was 3-for-7, Zawadzki 1-for-6, Chris Stewart 3-for-6, and Luis Durango 3-for-5 with a walk.

Stewart hit the club’s only home run.

Through it all, Cory Luebke threw eight superb innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out eight. The usual Aaron Poreda walk-fest occurred in the ninth and brought the score from 21-2 to 21-4, but if there was ever a game to pitch Poreda in, this was it.

It’s great to see the bats wake up in this sort of huge way, and perhaps even better to see Luebke (2.57 ERA in three starts) finally giving the Padres a reliable Triple-A arm.