Hatred for the Adrian Gonzalez trade

We need the prospects, not Fadrian

But that’s because I pretended it didn’t happen. Reading this made my heart sink. I miss Adrian.

We didn’t even get Padroya

Good show. Nicely played.

will likely start off in AAA and be up by the end of the year or beginning of 2012 if they have decent years. Fuentes is more like 2014-15.

Either way, this feeling sucks, and if either (God forbid both) of those top 2 turn out to be a bust, I will be right there in this boat with you.

It’s the economy, stupid! (Hurrah for 80s slogans!)
But seriously … there wasn’t a chance he was going to re-sign as a free agent. Is this the best package of players available? Probably, otherwise I don’t think Jed makes this deal. Will 2011 suck? Probably, but didn’t most of us think 2010 was going to be bad as well?
We’ll be fine in 2011 2012 2013 2014.

in 2015. Beautiful “Back to the Future” reference.

“Trade makes sense, blah blah blah, got most value for him, blah blah blah, never going to re-sign anyway, blah blah blah….. Baseball doesn’t make sense sometimes. Look at the Werth deal; WTF is Washington thinking? Apparently, they’ve got some government types in their accounting office over there. It’ll be fun to watch him suck in a couple of years while hauling down the big bucks, or leaving when his pedophile past catches up to him.
You know what I like with my baseball? Hope. it’s my favorite baseball flavor. You know what my least favorite baseball flavor is? Wait with a hint of “Red Sox win”. It tastes like ass.

It’s a neverending cycle that leads no where but the bottom.

according to MLBTR.com. I would prefer him over Bartlett (cheaper, longer control, position flexibility). You could pay his salary for two seasons for what one season of Orlando Hudson would cost. Re-sign J-Hair, then you have Everth as the back-up at both spots. I wonder what it would take to pry him loose?

I’d trade a good Adrian deal for a real pennant surge in ‘11 any day. But that’s not going to happen now. As Canepa said, “The Padres have no lineup.”

Why? Because now we’ll wait a minimum of four years for another one, and then if any of those players are decent, they’ll be traded for yet more prospects. Back to rooting for a AA team.

I am rationalizing this by assuming Adrian’s shoulder injury would have ruined his 2011. He really won’t be able to get into serious baseball training until Late March and probably won’t be Adrian until the all-star break. There is a decent chance he will injure something else compensating for the weak shoulder, and his 2011 would have been shot. And then he would have been gone.

This way we get something for him! And Adrian gets a boatload of money, which couldn’t happen to a better person. If he had stuck around for another year, its possible both of those things would have been at risk.

The one thing that pisses me off more than anything is that the Padres said this morning that they haven’t given up on 2011. If you are building for the future, going after prospects the average fan doesn’t know about, that’s fine. In this market, one can argue that’s your job. But don’t come out and tell me with a straight face you are still doing what you can for this next season. Just come out and admit that you are shooting for 50 wins.

We don’t even have players to fill spots right now. I figure those spots will have to be filled with somebody. What’s our payroll now? $3 million? They’ll have to spend the money somewhere.

Or baseball in general, for perpetually keeping the Padres in this position that they can’t afford superstars?

San Diego is market size larger then St. Louis, and they are pretty similar in season ticket prices. There is no excuse for not spending more in payroll. I don’t care about ownership’s debt to buy the team. Evidently, MLB picked the wrong people to own the Padres, if this is the case.

I prefer the best possible player, as opposed to the guy who happens to fill a current need.

I hate that, to justify the trade, you need to dream on all three guys fulfilling potential, instead of pointing at their performance and saying look how awesome they were.

I think the system is broken. Unless one of the many “prospects” we have drafted or traded for become a star, we are screwed.

I remember reading somewhere that the prospects Texas got in return for Texiera helped get them to the World Series (Feliz and Andrus). They did, but Josh Hamilton was the key. He was that guy in the lineup. Do we (or will we) get that guy?

Adrian finishes as the best 1B to be a Padre. He could arguably be the 2nd best positional player the Padres have had. He never had a moment(like Caminiti or Garvey), but I know I always appreciated his power to all fields and his aggresive defense at first. He will be missed.

While I’m relieved as a Rockies fan, to not have to face him 18 times a year…I think our division is the poorer for it.

Condolences…….(and f the Red Sox)

“The Padres have one Major League infielder right now and that’s debatable.”

That’s the toughest part of this. We’re not quite sure yet how the Peavy trade will work out, or how the Gonzalez trade will work out, or how Tate Donovan will work out, or Everett Williams.

However, we do know how the McGriff trade went in 1993, and how the all the number one picks like Ben Davis, Sean Burroughs, Kevin Nicholson, Vince Faison, Khalil Greene, and Matt Bush have gone so I can understand your doubt. I’m frankly trying to keep my patience as well and I’m not really sure how this will work out. But I do know that it’s too early to tell either way.

In the meantime, damn, this team has a lot of holes on the offense.