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Post by ignoranus on Sept 7, 2018 9:08:31 GMT -8
As a long suffering Padres fan I have watched their minor league guys come up to the majors for way too many years and not show much in the way of power. The best simultaneous guys were McReynolds and Martinez back in the early eighties. Those guys are now in their 50s. It's been a long time with little to show for this team since then.
Meanwhile, teams like the Dodgers, SF, Yankees, Boston and others routinely bring up these studs that hammer the ball and drive their teams to the postseason.
At last, in 2018, we can see some serious potential Padre Power putting on those uniforms: Villanueva, Reyes, Cordero, Renfroe and now Mejia.
More bats are on the way with Tatis and others trying to hammer their way into those uniforms.
It's been a long, long wait and looks great.
Padres: Please do not start trading these guys until you/we really know what we now have. No more Rizzos!!!
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Post by aztecmusician on Oct 1, 2018 10:14:24 GMT -8
It will be an interesting off season, the Padres currently have a lot of prospects and young future stars. Which players do they keep and who gets moved?
Have we seen the best of Wil Myers? Should the Padres keep Villanueva at 3rd and move forward with an outfield of Myers, Renfroe, Cordero, Reyes, Margot? How about Freddie Galvis? Did Urias look ready for prime time in his brief stint in the majors? Will Tatis be ready for the show next season? This team has some good power and some speed (Jankowski, Spangenburg, Margot, Myers) if they can move the team batting avg. up from .235 to the .250-.265 range this team will score some runs.
The bullpen looks fully loaded, stacked with power arms. Should the Padres move any of them?
The starting pitching is the area of concern and the toughest to project. A few years back the Padres moved Miles Mikolas to the Pirates for Alex Dickerson. Mikolas eventually figured something out and delivered a stellar Cy Young worthy season for the St. Louis Cardinals this year. (18-4 2.83 ERA). Do the Padres have a breakout pitcher currently on their roster (Lauer, Luchessi, Nix, Kennedy, Strahm, Mitchell, Lamet?) or should they move some OF or bullpen depth for a veteran or two?
If the Padres are going to crack .500 next year, they need more consistency from the starters, probably via trade. A stellar bullpen isn’t much good when you are down 8-3 going into the 6th inning.
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 1, 2018 10:46:57 GMT -8
Padres are the only bullpen in the top 6 not to make the playoffs - The pen is always going to be solid and should be even better next year as it has tons of youth. No doubt Urias will be at 2nd on opening day. Galvis is the wild card - I wouldn't re-sign him, but I'm sure they will. Anticipate a better year for Hosmer now that he's adjusted to NL pitching. I expect a move for an established starter to shore up the rotation. Great story that Miles Mikolas turned into - Japan turned his career around.
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Post by azteca on Oct 1, 2018 14:54:26 GMT -8
Still hope they don’t trade Reyes.
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Post by AztecBill on Oct 1, 2018 23:03:48 GMT -8
Still hope they don’t trade Reyes. I think he will be our starting right fielder next year.
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Post by ignoranus on Oct 2, 2018 5:34:06 GMT -8
Also, please d not trade Villanueva or Cordero. Let 'em play a full season or two. And keep Jankowski.
Myers and Margot should be dangled in front of trade partners.
Spangenburg, Pirela & Asuaje: Keep one, trade the other two.
Resign Galvis!
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 9:35:29 GMT -8
Villanueva is not a piece on a winning team. One tool player, utterly replacable and I sure hope he isn't on the roster next year. Cordero has the highest ceiling of anyone on the 25 man. Jankowski is a useful piece. Resigning Galvis makes no sense.
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Post by azteca on Oct 2, 2018 10:23:26 GMT -8
Villanueva is not a piece on a winning team. One tool player, utterly replacable and I sure hope he isn't on the roster next year. Cordero has the highest ceiling of anyone on the 25 man. Jankowski is a useful piece. Resigning Galvis makes no sense. Depends on his asking price. Right now, he’s right up there with the best shortstops in the league.
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Post by ignoranus on Oct 2, 2018 12:03:58 GMT -8
Signing Galvis at the right price for a couple of years does make sense. When the kids are ready to take over he is still a valuable utility guy.
Or, he could be a useful trade piece for any team looking for a better SS.
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 13:54:46 GMT -8
Villanueva is not a piece on a winning team. One tool player, utterly replacable and I sure hope he isn't on the roster next year. Cordero has the highest ceiling of anyone on the 25 man. Jankowski is a useful piece. Resigning Galvis makes no sense. Depends on his asking price. Right now, he’s right up there with the best shortstops in the league. You're kidding, right? 18th in WAR. 16th in batting average (4th worst among qualified shortstops) 4th in strikeouts with 147. 17th in OPS. He's nowhere, nowhere, nowhere near the top of the shortstop heap. It makes ZERO sense to re-sign Galvis for anything more than a 1 year pillow type contract. Tatis will be up by June and then Freddy will have no place to play. Can we stop pretending like he's in the same category as a Lindor, Simmons, Baez, Bogaerts type? It's just not true. He made 6.8 million this year. So logic stands to hold if he wants a multi-year deal, it's going to 7 or 8 million a season. No thank you. Emphatically.
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Post by aardvark on Oct 2, 2018 14:22:11 GMT -8
Signing Galvis at the right price for a couple of years does make sense. When the kids are ready to take over he is still a valuable utility guy. Or, he could be a useful trade piece for any team looking for a better SS. The guy is 28. He will be looking to make more than he made with the Padres this season. And should the Padres re-sign him, it will be for 1 year, at a significantly lesser amount than he got this season, which I don't think will interest him at all. I do wish Galvis luck wherever he ends up. Galvis did what he was supposed to do, which was to hold down the SS position for the Padres for 1 year.
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Post by azteca on Oct 2, 2018 14:42:46 GMT -8
Depends on his asking price. Right now, he’s right up there with the best shortstops in the league. You're kidding, right? 18th in WAR. 16th in batting average (4th worst among qualified shortstops) 4th in strikeouts with 147. 17th in OPS. He's nowhere, nowhere, nowhere near the top of the shortstop heap. It makes ZERO sense to re-sign Galvis for anything more than a 1 year pillow type contract. Tatis will be up by June and then Freddy will have no place to play. Can we stop pretending like he's in the same category as a Lindor, Simmons, Baez, Bogaerts type? It's just not true. He made 6.8 million this year. So logic stands to hold if he wants a multi-year deal, it's going to 7 or 8 million a season. No thank you. Emphatically. Look, I know you’re an expert on this stuff, and spend way more time than I have or wish to on it, but he’s been a very solid addition defensively and a good influence in the clubhouse from what I understand. There’s more to the game than all these statistics show, but it’s obvious that’s all important to you and that’s fine. There are intangibles that don’t always show up in the stats. If the Pads let him go it’s no sweat off my back. I just hope Tatis is the godsend you and others believe he is. I prefer to wait to see the productivity at the major league level first!
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Post by AztecBill on Oct 2, 2018 15:33:17 GMT -8
You're kidding, right? 18th in WAR. 16th in batting average (4th worst among qualified shortstops) 4th in strikeouts with 147. 17th in OPS. He's nowhere, nowhere, nowhere near the top of the shortstop heap. It makes ZERO sense to re-sign Galvis for anything more than a 1 year pillow type contract. Tatis will be up by June and then Freddy will have no place to play. Can we stop pretending like he's in the same category as a Lindor, Simmons, Baez, Bogaerts type? It's just not true. He made 6.8 million this year. So logic stands to hold if he wants a multi-year deal, it's going to 7 or 8 million a season. No thank you. Emphatically. Look, I know you’re an expert on this stuff, and spend way more time than I have or wish to on it, but he’s been a very solid addition defensively and a good influence in the clubhouse from what I understand. There’s more to the game than all these statistics show, but it’s obvious that’s all important to you and that’s fine. There are intangibles that don’t always show up in the stats. If the Pads let him go it’s no sweat off my back. I just hope Tatis is the godsend you and others believe he is. I prefer to wait to see the productivity at the major league level first! If things a player does does not show up in stats, such as wins and losses, then it is useless.
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 16:20:42 GMT -8
You're kidding, right? 18th in WAR. 16th in batting average (4th worst among qualified shortstops) 4th in strikeouts with 147. 17th in OPS. He's nowhere, nowhere, nowhere near the top of the shortstop heap. It makes ZERO sense to re-sign Galvis for anything more than a 1 year pillow type contract. Tatis will be up by June and then Freddy will have no place to play. Can we stop pretending like he's in the same category as a Lindor, Simmons, Baez, Bogaerts type? It's just not true. He made 6.8 million this year. So logic stands to hold if he wants a multi-year deal, it's going to 7 or 8 million a season. No thank you. Emphatically. Look, I know you’re an expert on this stuff, and spend way more time than I have or wish to on it, but he’s been a very solid addition defensively and a good influence in the clubhouse from what I understand. There’s more to the game than all these statistics show, but it’s obvious that’s all important to you and that’s fine. There are intangibles that don’t always show up in the stats. If the Pads let him go it’s no sweat off my back. I just hope Tatis is the godsend you and others believe he is. I prefer to wait to see the productivity at the major league level first! I spent all of 90 seconds going to ESPN and sorting shortstop statistics. Super hard. I also pay attention (Difficult) to what Galvis has done because of the silly rhetoric that's been perpetuated by the media and others. He does provide leadership and is a great teammate by all accounts. But baseball is about dollars and cents and what makes sense. It makes no sense to pay a guy what Galvis is going to command when it blocks your #1 prospect. It's just silly. He's a .240, low OBP/high strikeout player that plays solid defense. Good bench guy, but I'm not paying a bench guy 7 million or 8 million a season.
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Post by azteca on Oct 2, 2018 16:29:51 GMT -8
Look, I know you’re an expert on this stuff, and spend way more time than I have or wish to on it, but he’s been a very solid addition defensively and a good influence in the clubhouse from what I understand. There’s more to the game than all these statistics show, but it’s obvious that’s all important to you and that’s fine. There are intangibles that don’t always show up in the stats. If the Pads let him go it’s no sweat off my back. I just hope Tatis is the godsend you and others believe he is. I prefer to wait to see the productivity at the major league level first! I spent all of 90 seconds going to ESPN and sorting shortstop statistics. Super hard. I also pay attention (Difficult) to what Galvis has done because of the silly rhetoric that's been perpetuated by the media and others. He does provide leadership and is a great teammate by all accounts. But baseball is about dollars and cents and what makes sense. It makes no sense to pay a guy what Galvis is going to command when it blocks your #1 prospect. It's just silly. He's a .240, low OBP/high strikeout player that plays solid defense. Good bench guy, but I'm not paying a bench guy 7 million or 8 million a season. Like I said, I don’t have the desire to go to any of those sites, no matter how little time it takes. You seem to enjoy doing that. I’m a casual fan, not hardcore. I have opinions just like everyone. And, for what it worth, I never said they should give him a multi million dollar contract. I just hope Tatis is all that so many think he is..
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 17:16:11 GMT -8
He doesn't have to be to be better than Galvis. And FWIW, more than a few projections have Tatis being a 4+ WAR player by the time he's 22 or 23 years old. That would be a sizable upgrade. I'm not sure what your point is with re-signing Galvis, he's not going to sign for less than what he made this season. I'm fine with Galvis coming back on a one year deal for cheap, but that likely is off the table. Beyond that, it's a mistake by Fowler, who seems to be way too involved in the daily operations/player personnel department.
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Post by azteca on Oct 2, 2018 17:29:57 GMT -8
So now Fowler doesn’t know what he’s doing. Have you submitted your application to the team to be an advisor.? Seriously, there are times you appear to take yourself too seriously. But I’m done in this one.
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 18:17:09 GMT -8
Have you heard/read his recent comments? Calling out Hosmer and Myers? Wanting to buck the consensus and sign Galvis? Anyone with any kind of baseball knowledge will tell you Fowler is a businessman. He isn't a scout, a talent evaluator, a GM....None of the above. I don't take myself seriously, but you've self-professed you're a casual fan, so you obviously don't pay attention to some of the more behind the scenes type stuff. Fowler is doing a radio spot tomorrow, can't wait to hear more stupid things.
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Post by azteca on Oct 2, 2018 18:25:19 GMT -8
You should write him and express your thoughts then.
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Post by aztecryan on Oct 2, 2018 18:33:09 GMT -8
No need. He's going to do what he wants to do. I appreciate he is willing to spend money to improve the team, but he needs to stay out of the baseball operations. Nothing good comes out of that. See examples in Miami and Baltimore for proof.
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