December 5, 2013 by Wayne McBrayer The MLB Winter Meeting is the time of the year when GM’s get together to discuss trades and start assembling the pieces they feel they need to make their team a winning club. After an…
September 6, 2013 by Wayne McBrayer with photos by Rebecca Herman On our recent trip to Tucson to see the see the last 3 games of the Tucson Padres, we discussed the players we wanted to interview; two players came to mind –…
July 15, 2013 by Rebecca Herman With the first half of the season in the books, let’s examine the Padres transactions thus far. There have been 98 transactions. The largest percentage (57%) has come from the back-and-forth movement between San…
July 2, 2013 by Rebecca Herman June 6/28 RH Burch Smith recalled from AAA Tucson 6/26 LH Tommy Layne optioned to AAA Tucson 6/26 LH Robbie Erlin recalled from AAA Tucson RH Brad Brach optioned to AAA Tucson INF Jedd…
June 15, 2013 by Rebecca Herman Draft Signings The Padres have signed 21 of their 41 selections from 2013 First Year Player draft: SS Dustin Peterson (2nd round), RHP Bryan Verbitsky (3rd round), OF Mason Smith (4th), RHP Adam Cimber (9th),…
June 1, 2013 by Rebecca Herman Hardly! It’s Friday night, May 31, 2013 … the first of a three game series with the Padres hosting the Blue Jays. It is inter-league play and we seem to have many Canadians (Blue Jay fans)…
Sometimes it is fun to express your opinion but other times it seems best to simply present the facts. That is what this category is all about. Anything that could be considered to be straight forward such as the Disabled…