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Them Padres never “cease” to amaze me..:)
I guess they feel like they can compete for a wild card.
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San Diego is perpetually in go mode. It rarely seems to pan out for them, so I’m not too jealous…yet, I’m a little jealous.
Pads give up a couple of young pitchers who apparently had looked good this Spring, and a key bullpen piece plus a position player prospect. Might turn out to be one of those “good for both teams” deals.
There goes Bob Reed’s proposed deal of a Gorman for Cease swap.
Wish we could come to an agreement with our old buddy Jordan Montgomery. We are down from three to one “Jordan” on the roster, so another one is acceptable. Three was pushing it though! 🙂
The best I can tell the Padres did not have to give up any big league talent to get Cease, except for a bullpen guy. They did give up a couple of top 10 prospects from their system.
I think it was a great move for the padres. Maybe cease doesn’t do well or maybe he does, either way it gives off good positive vibes. That’s what any team that has any reasonable chance of expecting playoffs should be doing.
Agreed, Willie.
There’s a lot to be said for showing your players you’re truly trying to win — as opposed to signing multiple washed-up guys on the wrong side of 35, to buttress your “clubhouse leadership.”The Cease announcement, followed quickly by the bizarre Ollie Marmol extension, makes this the worst week to be a Cardinal fan since the late 1970’s. (And maybe much farther back than that.) The Mulder, Fowler, Ozuna, and Contreras transactions were awful, but at least there was always a capable adult in the manager’s office. Not no more.
I expect that the next several years will be exactly what Brian Walton foresaw as a possibility a couple months back. The team will be bad again this year, which will lead to lower attendance, which will of course mean less revenue, which predictably will in turn result in lower player payroll next year — which finally will likely mean an even worse product on the field going forward.
That seems likely Bob. The only way it ends is BDW realizing he’s been sold a handful of magic beans. Extending the captain of the Titanic proves that is not near.
Yep, as I always say, any time you make player transactions for things unrelated to on-field production, you increase your chances of making a mistake. This whole “clubhouse leadership” thing is an example.
I am not ready to write off the season or the future. I have been around long enough to know that just when I think I have it all figured out, things go another way. But I am not optimistic about this club, and now they think Ollie is the right guy at the field leadership position.
I keep getting visions of the late ’70s and Vern Rapp.
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