The Official Padres Off-Season Thread

Watt, the young pitcher in the Maddux deal, was a second-round draft pick in the '07 draft, and is 19 years old.

I seriously doubt Towers would trade Peavy. Peavy does have full non-trade rights until the end of the '10 season. I believe Towers that when he said that, it was only out of curiousity on what other teams would offer for him. It would have to be the deal of a lifetime for the Padres to actually trade him.

Here is the definitive answer. Peavy has a complete no trade clause for 2009 and 2010 and a partial no trade clause after that and has said not only does he want to win as a Padres, but that after 2010 he would not consider a trade to any team in the AL.

Colbert is old school, play by the gut type of coach. He doesn't like the SABR-like stats driven approach Alderson and DePodesta are proponents of. He was not destined to be here long butting heads with the FO philosophy.

It was on the baseball blog. It may have actually been a comment. I can't find the particular post again either.

Duran is a 2B that was the number 2-3 position prospect in the Rangers organization behind Elvis Andrus and Neftali Perez to start the season.

Laird will be 29 next season (turns 29 in Nov. this year) and has been with the Rangers for parts of the last 6 seasons.

He is slightly above league average in every offensive category(but only slightly) and plays good defense.

I think Olney is smoking crack. Is he ever right?

Add Rosenthal to the crack list. He is saying KT will trade Peavy. Its insane the way a few comments were blown out of proportion.

Rosenthal is a hack. He may be among the worst baseball writers of all time.

More than once I have written him letters about mistakes he made in his research and he has returned my emails saying I was right, but he never posts retractions. I think there is a very real reason they call Fox, Faux Sports. They seem to be more concerned with being sensationalists, not journalists concerned with what is true.