Twenty, heck, 15, Ok, 10 years ago, a regular hitting .204 for his career wouldn’t be a regular for long. Now? At least one .204 hitter is not going to lost his job for a while. Ryan Schimpf started his career as a 5th round pick from LSU in 2009. Advanced college ball players really need to move through the
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Late-season rentals are nothing new. Dave Kingman played for four teams in 1977.
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Since 1961, we’ve been in the “Expansion Era” (among many), since that was the year that baseball moved past the ‘traditional’ 16 franchises to the 30 we have now. While some decry that ‘watering down’ of talent in the majors, they mostly can just yell at clouds and complain about the sex talk on Golden Girls. Baseball needed to expand.
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The Padres have had more lean years than not, and not too many long term heroes. Nate Colbert is one, and he did it under the worst possible circumstances.
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The team claims it didn’t mean to insult the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus on Saturday. But their half-assed apology stinks as bad the team itself.
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Just to see what it would look like, you’re kind of rooting against the Padres ever scoring a run.
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Sure, there were three games on Sunday, but yesterday was the big unveiling for 2016 and here’s what we took away from it.
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