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Next Year Predictions

I got in to a rather heated argument with some of my buddies in the wee hours of Friday night / Saturday morning about the prospects of our 2009 San Diego Padres.  Their position was that next year's Padres were in position to be one of the worst teams in the history of Major League Baseball.  Mine was that it will be next to impossible for us to be as bad as we were.

The reasoning was as follows:

  1. We were terrible last year and have done absolutely nothing to improve.  If anything, our team will deteriorate with the potential loss of Jake Peavy and Giles' abuse issues.   Our starting rotation is a joke, with two major league pitchers (for the time being) and three also-rans that would be better off in AAA.  The middle of our infield is a giant question mark, which doesn't help matters at all.  Oh and our coach is a buffoon.
  2. We were hit by an inordinate amount of bad luck and poor timing last season.  Our hitting would only step up when our pitching collapsed, and vice versa.  Our young kids will have had some extra time to mature.  Our outfield platoon is promising, with Gerut and Venable giving us something exciting to root for.  Heath Bell could make a fantastic transition to the closers role and give us some consistency in the 9th.

I could go on and on, but i figured I'd stop rambling and put this up to a vote...  so with that being said.

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