Padres can't plug holes until Peavy is traded

and apologize, he fits the budget, with peavy, giles, cy and adrian, they’re around 50 mill… unless they want to go lower, the budget is at a good point with these players…

i expect that KT will find some hidden gerut-type gem this offseason that will marginally improve some position – maybe that 2b they got off waivers is that guy. i wouldnt object to trading kouz (the padres might, because he’s cheap – then again, maybe that’s why he’d make good trade bait), with headley replacing him – kouz strikes out too often and walks too little.

We have our thumbs up our butts because we can’t get more then a bag of balls for Peavy. That’s absolute unqualified BS. We need another starting pitcher regardless, we need more relievers, we probably should move Kouz, but yet we can’t because of Peavy. That shows a complete lack of understanding of organizational clarity.

because Peavy makes up such a large percentage of the 2009 payroll.

And Peavy probably won’t be traded until Sabathia is signed. Sabathia’s signing will set the value of top end pitching in this market and Peavy is a top end pitcher.

Kouzmanoff probably can’t be traded because he just had surgery and no one knows how he will heal. Real hard to trade for a guy if you don’t know if he can still play at all.

Headley struck out 104 times in 330 abs (31.42% of his abs). That is on pace for a 196 SO season. Kouzmanoff struck out 139 in 624 abs (22.27% of his abs). Headley struck out nearly 50% more per ab on average than Kouzmanoff.