Around the Mission: 5/14 Padres Links

Very, very confident.

I don’t have insider and want to see what the network has to say about our boys.

The restricted list also can be a transactional last resort for a player with a personal issue. In 2003, baseball instituted the bereavement list, which allows a three- to seven-day excused absence for a player experiencing a family emergency or the death of a loved one. With permission from the Commissioner’s office, the player’s team may replace him on the active 25-man roster, though he continues to be paid and earn service time. But if an absence extends more than seven days, the club must resort to placing the player on the restricted list, where he is not paid and does not earn service time. Casey Kotchman, Cliff Floyd, and Alex Gonzalez (then with Cincinnati) all were placed on the restricted list in recent years after their seven-day bereavement leave had expired.

This a quote from a recent BaseballProspectus article. Someone asked me if Kevin Correia could be put on the disabled list if he needed more than 7 days of bereavement for the death of his father. I had replied that it wouldn’t be likely to happen since you would need a mental or physical issue to justify it. This article showed me that there was precedent for putting bereaved players on the rarely mentioned restricted list. Currently, Milton Bradley in on the restricted list for the Mariners as he resolves his personal issues.

you have an offense that often looks like it couldn’t even produce runs after a spoiled round of fish tacos

shoulda, coulda, woulda full of excuses.

this is for the LA Times to look into

1. We have a great team chemistry. They have a bunch of egos.
2. We have been very focused on winning games, plain & simple. They seem to care more about individual stats.
3. We know how to play solid defense and are not in need of another spring training to refresh the fundamentals.
4. They’ve been killing themselves over very small things. We’ve been killing our opponents by doing very small things (pitcher RBI’s, defense, speed, etc)
5. LA is all about the benjamins. I don’t see any heart in that team. We’re a 37 mil squad with no expectations and a ton of heart.
6. Did I mention egos?

The Padres are a team of no-names. Their lineup includes a great first baseman and seven guys you never heard of. And for good reason. They’re leading the National League West with a bunch of Triple-A players.

Ummm, those are professional players, Steve.

Steve Dilbeck needs some serious demotivation. Unleash the LOLcats!!!

The Padres historically have been something of a pain in the butt to the Dodgers. Time to return the favor. Time to offer a lesson in reality.

and wouldnt reality be based on history? jagoff!

Not exactly Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Johnny Podres and Claude Osteen.

When did the Dodgers pick these guys up? Are they not all dead or in their 90’s. Or are they trying to say that: Kuroda, Kershaw, Billingsley, Haeger, and Ortiz are the second coming of these guys?

MUAHHHHH AHA HA HA HAHA HA H AHA ROTFLMAO!

Someone should put a copy of that article in the clubhouse tonight. I wonder what would happen..

Want work to be over and to be down at the stadium already!

I see this all the time from Dodgers fans and Raiders fans. We have X World Series, X Super Bowls, so you will lose tonight.

What if the Dodgers win two of three? Is the sky falling? If they’re all three close games?

Wouldn’t a possible comparison be Jeff Francis? He’s a lefty whose fastball averages 87-88 mph, but has a great change-up. In 2006 and 2007, he was worth 3.6 and 4.1 WAR respectively, despite never having an ERA below 4.16, or a FIP below 4.19.

Is there a reason LeBlanc can’t do that? His K/9 and BB/9 are pretty similar to Francis’s, though his HR/9 looks to be a bit higher.

I particularly liked this one:

Wow… I wouldn’t expect less coming from the mouth of someone at the Los Angeles Times. I’m not a Padres fan, but I’m glad to see that they are at least showing they know how to play baseball. I think it’s more embarrassing that two of our players equal to the whole payroll of the Padres and we’re performing much worse. We’ll see what happens this next week, but I’m sure that its not going to be nearly as easy as you’re making it out to be. You don’t take baseball for what it is.

Posted by: Nick Theilemann | 05/14/2010 at 08:52 AM

That’s totally Ax.