Ummm….Khalil?

Didn’t Khalil make “all the routine plays” in addition to making some “Jesus F**king Lopez did you see the play Greeney just made?” plays and bring a tad bit more than “a little bit of offense”?

No?

and solid post Drama, it really was .. shame you were getting attacked from the first post.

But, what was interesting about it, was that Drama was correct with almost every one of his arguments. It may have been a reach to label him a bust at such a young age, because I think he has a great season in St Louis, but .. had the padres shopped Greene at the that time or even that summer, they would have gotten a lot more in return that some sidearm reliever with a questionable gap between his ears.

I saw where that thread also caused Phantom to join, so that was a massive plus. Phantom made a solid point about what Kahlil did for the pitching staff, and i think that can’t be repeated enough. That’s going to be the friars downfall this season, defense up the middle. Peavy and Young are going to miss having Kahlil over their shoulder.

and to think they were only 3.3 million away from having the best infield defense in the game (Greene, ODog, Adrian)

As for Alderson, only one, maybe two more fireside chats it sounds like. I have mixed feelings on his departure. He has a ton of knowledge between his ears, and losing that type of talent, especially in the front office, is never a good thing.

But I just never liked the way he treated people. I never liked the way, he wouldn’t answer a question. He is excellent at the art of spin, and he really should be a politician more than anything.

I imagine baseball pays better though ..

Did Alderson say we were trying to be like the Boston Red Sox ?

God bless the day any Padres owner can afford to pay $20 million dollars to have their star outfielder, play for another team.

God bless the day the Padres pay $50 million dollars, just to talk to a pitcher, who has never pitched in the major leagues.

God bless the day the Padres can pay $15 million dollars for an outfielder who averages 100 games a season, and be happy about it!!

God bless the day the Padres can sign a free agent pitcher for $5 million, just in case we need him in September.

is that the system Alderson is talking about?

Everth Cabrera’s glove. He said that the routine plays sometimes eluded Cabrera and that they will see if he can hit. His tone and the long pauses he took in an attempt to say something PC about Cabrera tells you that Alderson is not too high on him right now.

He also said the Padres are not a team that can just keep a Rule V player to keep him. He has to produce. I would say that if he doesn’t improve substantially with the bat, especially in the last week or two of camp, that Cabrera is gone.

Orlando Hudson signed for $3.4 million base plus $4.6 million in PA based incentives. If he gets 550 Pa he makes $8 million. That is only $7.15 million more than Eckstein and please go take a look at their career batting numbers.

I just wish the Padres had spent the money they saved on Eckstein to sign a decent starting pitcher.

Where 4 home grown position players will be starting in 2009 as well as at least 6 of 12 pitchers are home grown (8 if you include the Japanese signings)

That but was followed by the whole thing about routine plays and that Cabrera is blowing them and that he also had to provide offense and they would see if he would hit.

Combine that with 3 FIELDING errors in 24 innings over 7 games and you do not have a pretty picture. Sometimes you can forgive throwing errors, but booting the ball is never a good thing.

Add to that the fact that Cabrera’s footwork is atrocious, (take a look at the video of him where he makes the throw from his knees – if his footwork was even average he gets to that ball standing up) and you are looking at a kid that while he has upside, needs a few more years in the minors to learn how to play the game.

I would love to see him start the season in Lake Elsinore. The Padres need to work out a trade with the Rockies.

Any chance Cabrera ends up with an “injury” and lands on the 60 Day DL? With that said, how long can a player spend on the DL in a given season?