"We're trying to get Adrian Gonzalez right now, too."

14. SB Nation Network. $8 million. The company has a network of about 200 relatively small sites across all major sports. The network has 4 million unique visitors. SB Nation has about twenty employees. The sites are a page view machine but the advertising is low quality. Total revenue of $2 million with very modest margins.

Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman will be the keynote speaker at a Veterans Day ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego on Wednesday.

Kevin Kouzmanoff signing autographs & taking pictures tomorrow noon - 1 p.m. @ American Icon Autographs! 11305 Rancho Bernardo Rd. #109.

This one is for all the nine-year old Yankee fans who were worried they'd never see a championship in their lifetime.

Since 1980, only three other teams have produced the exacta of a 100-win regular season and World Series title: the 1984 Detroit Tigers, '86 New York Mets and the '98 Yankees

In his final year as CEO, Sandy Alderson got majority owner John Moores on board with the idea that developing your own is the way to go in a mid-sized market. That led to the team’s $8 million facility in the Dominican Republic and a $5 million allowance for international spending in 2008. This year, the team paid out $9 million to sign its top picks. And almost overnight, the bottom half of the farm system found itself stocked with players.

manny will exercise $20-million option and stay with #dodgers. #diamondbacks will pick up webb's $8.5-million option.

Hoyer needs to rebuild, and he probably has to start by dealing Gonzalez and Bell for several prospects, then investing the payroll savings in the draft and the international market. The Padres have a long ways to go before they're ready to contend in the short term or long term.

[Hoyer] put himself "head and shoulders" above the other GM candidates, Moorad said, by compiling a detailed analysis of the Padres baseball talent, including a breakdown of how he envisioned the front office working. He needed a binder for the treatise, which runs some 50 pages.