Better Latos Than Never: The 2010 San Diego Padres Thread

Fuck it.

nice

pgammo
Latos has retired 55 of the last 58 batters he's faced. Welcome to the power arm NL Westworld
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to be fair he faced the stros and the giants, but yeah

Stros are 30th in MLB OBP, Giants are a decent 10th.

What part of WELCOME TO THE POWER ARM NL WESTWORLD don't you understand, contl;drizer?

do you not, even

still

I don't know if Jed Hoyer reads this forum, but I'd just like to say: Jermaine Dye.

These are the top 10 teams in terms of winning percentage since last July 27:

1. New York Yankees: .663 (65-33)
2. Minnesota Twins .612 (60-38)
3. San Diego Padres .608 (59-38)
4. St. Louis Cardinals .604 (58-38)
5. Philadelphia Phillies .576 (57-42)

horseshoes and handgrenades imo

I don't know if Jed Hoyer reads this forum, but I'd just like to say: Jermaine Dye.

when did the padres get a DH slot?

I feel like they have enough defense otherwise to have one bad defender in RF if they can get some offense out of one of the corner spots.

horseshoes and handgrenades imo

Please do not make the mistake of thinking that I believe they will keep this up.

Just looked at the NL standings and the Padres (27-18) have the best record in the league. wtf?

I think the NL playoff races will come down to who plays the NL Central more in Aug/Sept.

Will they even have two all-stars?

Im sure the NL manager will pick Bell out of sympathy

Then again its Manuel so he'll probably have Contreras be one of his relievers because he can.

ade definitely. then pick a SP, garland or latos are prob both deserving imo

I could see Adrian getting passed up because of the depth of options at 1B. Seems to always be someone who gets passed up so that Ryan Howard can entertain the fans.

Wearing '78 throwbacks today

Coaches could also pick Gonzo to fill out the roster because hes a lefty..

not sure how people watch this team day in & day out

obviously they win... but so many sacrifices & stuff -- it would be too much for me

not alot of small ball was played last night when they pimp slapped the mets for 18 runs on 19 hits.

these fuckin guys...

Latos v Johan this aftnoon

Lets go Mets

So are these fucking guys going to win 100 games or what

They currently are more games over .500 than they've been all season.

I still don't get it, but I am increasingly not very intimidated by the other teams in the NL West (for the nth time in the past n years).

Their bullpen is ungodly good. SD pitching staff has the highest VORP in the NL, maybe even MLB.

is that park-adjusted?

I can't speak for the bullpen's road performance, or about VORP, but the overall team ERA on the road is 3.41, second only to Tampa Bay's 3.28. And their road OPS allowed is .661, best in baseball.

I think theyre also best in baseball in preventing inherited runners to score.

Currently are tied for the biggest division lead in baseball (4.5 games).

Only four teams have scored fewer runs than the Padres, and those four teams have a combined winning percentage of .368.

Seems like they automatically win if they score 2-3 runs because of that pitching staff.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs041.ash2/35393_416626987840_102173462840_4271173_304841_n.jpg

dag

i think he ate cecil fielder

O_O

that's not tony gwynn is it???

yeah it is, wow.

anyways this is San Diego's year, they are going to win the west this year.

Padres score 13 runs on Adrian Gonzalez's day off, weird.

A friend is going to Las Vegas this summer, so I want to put down a bet on someone to win it all. I'm thinking of the Padres, on the perhaps silly logic that in a "year of the pitcher," it makes sense to go with the team with the deepest pitching. Question to Padres fans (I'm in Toronto): 1) Do you think they have a legitimate chance? 2) What kind of odds do you think I'd get if the bet were placed sometime in August?

somebody shld tell tony abt kirby puckett u_u

Bill James once wrote something to the effect that if Tony Gwynn and Kirby Puckett had a footrace, it would look like two bowling balls careening down an alley side-by-side.

http://www.creepygif.com/images/full/10.gif

What would it look like if James took up a third lane?

Clemenza, the Pads are for real to an extent, but they're having a season like the Rockies did last year. Everything is going right for them, even though (for example) they only scored 5 runs or better six times in June. If they suffer injuries, or serious regression to the mean, you'd have to think that one of the Rockies, Giants or Dodgers is going to overtake them. So while they'd be a good shot at huge odds, their odds right now are probably as unfavourable as they're going to be, so there are likely better bets out there.

What if Ray King propped James on his shoulders?

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Clemenza, the Padres have a real chance of making the playoffs, very long odds but plausibly COULD win the NL, but absolutely no chance of winning the World Series. They would get crushed by Boston, NY, or Tampa.

Braves next year would seem to fit that bill with Wagner retiring, but I can't think of a manager with the nads to try it.

bobby cox actually used 2 closers last year didn't he? a lefty and a righty

he was still using the best relievers in the 9th regardless of leverage though

Yeah, Soriano and Mike Gonzalez. By the end of the season MG was mostly 8th inning setup for Soriano. I could see Cox trying it, but he's retiring too.

the Padres are imploding

maybe they are not out yet.

101, 102, 103

is what i just watched real?

WOW

Gonzo never had a chance.

so Chapman is pitching again for the Reds:

100, 102, 101, 100 long, long ball out

103, 104, 102, 104, 105, 103, 102 strike three

this should be in the Reds thread but was only watching because of the NL West.

102, 103, 101, 104 ball four

100, 100, 101, (95 to first), 102, 100, 103, 101 out

stunning

Ughhhhh.

don't believe the guns

tv guns are usually juiced by 2 or 3mph, he's probably topping at 102ish

that 105 pitch is making news:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sh-redspadres092410

http://twitter.com/HeathBell21/status/25478584713

bottom of the ninth with two outs: infield hit, hit by a pitch (that didn't hit anything), than a walk.

Padres are down to the Cubs 1-0.

Gonna need a miracle at this point. :/

Remind me (at some point) to reflect on Latos' silly, silly comment w/r/t the Giants at some point when it is better timing than now.

Let's reflect on it now! Why not get it over with.

Obviously he is completely wrong, and probably a moron.

"Baseball works in funny ways. The only way I could honestly put it is, we could be like the Giants and go and change our whole lineup, put guys with 'San Francisco Giants' across their jerseys. We didn't.

"We only added two guys (Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick). We've been the same team all year. We haven't just gone and grabbed guys from other teams."

Mat Latos to cbssports.com

Are you going to reflect on it.

In a minute, I'm trying to wolf down lunch atm.

don'tcha hate when all day meetings cut into your 20-30 mins of daily ILX time?

I don't have any of those, thankfully. :D

SF additions
Pat Burrell - dfa'd by Tampa, claimed on waivers, Giants pay Pat league min $375k
Cody Ross - claimed off waivers from Florida, Giants pick up $1M of salary
Jose Guillen - dfa'd by KC, Giants pay $270k + PTBNL
Mike Fontenot - traded from CHC to SF for high-A prospect Evan Crawford due to season ending injuries to infielders Renteria and DeRosa.

SD additions
Miguel Tejada - traded from BAL to SD for AA pitcher Wynn Pelzer and $1M cash
Ryan Ludwick - 3 way trade with STL and CLE, gave up high A pitcher Nick Greenwood.
Jody Gerut - signed to minor league deal, didn't pan out.
Wily Mo Pena - signed to minor league deal, didn't pan out.

Latos is just butthurt cuz his team stopped playing out of their gourds and fell back to earth. dude should worry about pitching and keeping his team in games rather than other teams' management imtho.

You're skipping two of the Giants' most significant additions: Javier Lopez and Ramon Ramirez, who stabilized their flailing bullpen.

I don't think you can really compare Gerut and Pena to those guys, and anyway Pena and Gerut hit well at AAA Portland. They were just acquired as minor league depth.

But anyway, the Padres have barely any players on their roster that they developed themselves. Venable, Latos, Headley, Hundley... that's about it. They are as mercenary a team as any other.

lopez and ramirez were both discarded from their teams though! it's not like those guys were highly sought after either.

but totes not seeing the forest for the trees here, latos is deluded if he thinks that SD and SF midseason management is any different.

And one of the only reasons the Giants claimed Ross was to keep him away from the Padres.

Also, most of the Padres weren't even in the system at the beginning of 2009.

I just remembered how awesome it was when the Padres swept the last four games of the season in LA to beat the Dodgers for the division title.

What year was that again? 2006?

iirc thats when the dodgers charged into the playoffs against the mets and had jeff kent and jd drew tagged out consecutively at the plate in the first inning of game one. needless to say we did not make it to the nlcs.

is that the same series when peavy cracked a rib in the celebratory clinching dog pile and fucked himself up for the playoffs or was that 05?

It was '96 iirc

ouch, the Padres lose three out of four to the Cubs.

now it doesn't look like they will even go in as the Wild Card as they are two games back.

giants arent invincible and the braves have to play philly.. theyre also getting shellacked 11-2 at the mo

That was a baseball game.

How many runs has Pablo Sandoval directly given the Padres due to poor fielding this year. I can think of at least 5.

I love him almost as much as I love Zito.

FUCK YEAH

The Padres' playoff odds were at 7 percent at the start of the weekend!

:/

:D

Hate the title to this thread :(

Well, you won't have to see it again anytime soon!

I have no complaints with how this season turned out. Would love to see the Padres spend some money this offseason and really take a shot in Gonzo's last year with the team.

sorry I missed it all

All three games were exciting as hell.

good luck with your elbow next April Mr. Better Latos Than Never