Padres Will Watch Championship Baseball in October

[junior]

What a disappointment of a season. Some will be sent packing - so they'll miss watching post-season play on TV.

The rest need to watch the games closely.

But for a little better team effort and some better "luck", it could've been them playing instead of watching.

[aztecmusician]

The core of the lineup is pretty solid (Tatis, Machado, Grisham, Cronenworth, Frazier, Nola, Myers) we’ll see about Hosmer, Pham is probably gone.

The problems are:

1. Keeping the starting pitching healthy.

2. Tingler…..he seems to be out of his depth.

There is obviously a systemic problem with how the organization handles it’s pitching staff. Starters are used with extreme caution in this franchise and their arms still blow out quicker than candles at a ten year old’s birthday party. Pitch counts are meticulously measured and enforced, yet the results are still horrifically disastrous. Maybe starters should be extended longer (110-140 pitches) instead of being yanked after 80-100 pitches, put this in concert with a 6 man rotation. The more you work the human body, the resilient it becomes.

Perhaps Friedrich Nietzsche had it correct in stating: “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”.

Conventional wisdom has completely broken down in regards to keeping pitching arms healthy. The answer could be more counterintuitive. Seriously, it can’t get any worse, can it?

The fact that the team was unable to score runs and rally after the All Star break is evidence that a change may be warranted. During winning time, this team was flatter than two week old Pepsi and that falls on Tingler. Maybe continuity and patience would be the best thing in the long run, but I think that ownership may ready for a change.

Dump the fishing buddy Preller and bring in a proven winner.

[junior]

Like I said in another thread, "Same thing only different" next year will likely result in the same mediocre results. So something needs a shake-up. Padres' players may look great on paper, but as we saw this season, that kind of means little or nothing when it comes to winning ball games.

Production.

… whether that's a shared team problem or some one person can be nailed for the lack of it, it's not something that's going to go away just because the calendar changes.

[docmm]

Sept 26, 2021 10:31:48 GMT -8 aztecmusician said:

The core of the lineup is pretty solid (Tatis, Machado, Grisham, Cronenworth, Frazier, Nola, Myers) we’ll see about Hosmer, Pham is probably gone.

The problems are:

1. Keeping the starting pitching healthy.

2. Tingler…..he seems to be out of his depth.

There is obviously a systemic problem with how the organization handles it’s pitching staff. Starters are used with extreme caution in this franchise and their arms still blow out quicker than candles at a ten year old’s birthday party. Pitch counts are meticulously measured and enforced, yet the results are still horrifically disastrous. Maybe starters should be extended longer (110-140 pitches) instead of being yanked after 80-100 pitches, put this in concert with a 6 man rotation. The more you work the human body, the resilient it becomes.

Perhaps Friedrich Nietzsche had it correct in stating: “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”.

Conventional wisdom has completely broken down in regards to keeping pitching arms healthy. The answer could be more counterintuitive. Seriously, it can’t get any worse, can it?

The fact that the team was unable to score runs and rally after the All Star break is evidence that a change may be warranted. During winning time, this team was flatter than two week old Pepsi and that falls on Tingler. Maybe continuity and patience would be the best thing in the long run, but I think that ownership may ready for a change.

Dump the fishing buddy Preller and bring in a proven winner.

Many astute points here, especially about the pitching.

And please don't let Preller bring any more damn former Texas management, executives, scouts or coaches to the Padre organization.