Mighty XX: Sandy Alderson Interview

by jbox on Aug 27, 2008 9:02 PM PDT Comment 7 comments

Sandy Alderson Interview on Mighty XX (MP3)

Peavy hurt himself on a can of beans a few years ago.
Lake Elsinore Storm playing in Petco. Dykstra had his first hit today. Three guys made the All-Star team.
Blanks killing it with 102 RBIs. Nine the other night with two home runs?
Sandy doesn't know why Hairston played center and Gerut played right. It's a question for Bud Black.
Gerut is arbitration eligible. Kevin Towers hasn't had contact with his agent. Gerut will be a 4+ player. The Pads have him for the next couple of years.
Bryan Corey and Banks were sent to AAA. Sandy says they need a weekend starter. Somebody from Portland will be coming up.
Six or seven AAA players will be coming up with the roster expansion on 9/1.
Hayhurst was brought up so they didn't screw up the minor league rotation. LeBlanc hasn't been 100%. Hayhurst deserved a promotion at somepoint. LeBlanc doesn't need to be put on the roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. Not to say he won't be brought up.
No priorities have been mapped out for the off-season. Step one, phase one is to see who performs in September.
Tower's said "there's no point to bring Hoffman back if the team isn't in save situations". Sandy thinks KT was just frustrated.
Sandy is working on the budgetary process, but hasn't made judgements on player payroll.
Petco Park should be ready for Replay on Friday. Sandy thinks it will be but he's checked out of that process. He doubts Replay will be utilized much here in Petco.

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Great news

that Jody will be out property for a few more years. We should throw the guy a bone and get him some money though, given the season he’s had.

by Phantom on Aug 28, 2008 8:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Totally

If he went to arbitration, he’d totally win (if I understand that process correctly)

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?

by Axion on Aug 28, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But he’d still be really cheap. Arbiters usually won’t extremely increase a players salary. He’s making 700,000 this year. An increase to a meager $4 mill is something like 600% raise for a player who spent the last couple seasons out of baseball. For a player of Jody’s caliber and the (supposed) extra room in the payroll, that kind of “win” would be easy to swallow.

With all due respect, you are not allowed to find our division rivals sexy.

by Wonko on Aug 28, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh I know it wouldn't be much

This is just one of those “good faith” moves I’d like to see the FO do.

Remember when they sorta dicked Adrian for… I don’t remember how much it was… I wanna say like $50,000, just because they didn’t have to pay him more. “Controversy” ensued. To their credit of course, I wanna say two weeks later, they signed him to his current deal.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?

by Axion on Aug 28, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know

I had a similar discussion with Phantom last year over Khalil’s arbitration. I personally don’t think the “controversies” over the business operations of the club are of any legitimate concern when they concern players that are staying in house (Players are usually pretty good about separating the business from the playing field). However, by illustrating the number he COULD get in arbitration, it does show that the club wouldn’t have to shell out very much to avoid arbitration. And Jody (and more importantly his agent) should know that going to arbitration is risky given his current salary, his age and his playing status in 2006 and 2007 and would probably take a deal where the numbers aren’t huge. And that’s kind of what I was getting at.

With all due respect, you are not allowed to find our division rivals sexy.

by Wonko on Aug 28, 2008 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Make it incentive based

by sacpadre on Aug 28, 2008 9:07 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Reading between the lines

It sounded to me like the Padres were going to try and find out in September who from Portland is ready to step into the rotation. So I’d expect multiple big league starts/long relief appearances from LeBlanc, Ramos and Geer. Sandy did mention some San Antonio call ups might come. I still wouldn’t hold my breath on Inman. With all the negative reports on Inman, I fully expect him to start in AAA next year (of course, some starts at the big league level could help prove those doubters wrong). As for Garrison, his recent shoulder issues, I would expect him to take it easy and go to Portland next year. Remember, all players called up in September still have to be added to the 40 man roster and that has future repercussions, so the only guys they will call up are guys they think have a legit shot at starting next year on the 25 man roster (currently I can think of about 12-15 Padres on the current 25 man that barring trades will be on next years).

Sandy also mentioned that Hairston tweaked something, so we may see a early call up to add OF depth. Venable anyone?

With all due respect, you are not allowed to find our division rivals sexy.

by Wonko on Aug 28, 2008 9:56 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs