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“PADRES ARE FAILING”

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So if you are keeping score at home, we are almost to the midway point of another underachieving season, and the Padres are below .500 again in the standings.

No consistency at all to anything they are doing. in the midst of a (37-39) season.

They have wasted some sizzling starting pitching by not hitting.
When they hit, the pitching springs leak

They must lead the world in runners caught stealing….in guys picked off bases…and in runners thrown out trying to take extra bases.  At last check, the Padres have lost 26-potential runs by getting guys nailed on the base paths.

Add in the stolen base count against Padres catchers.

Don’t forget the number of errors in the field that have helped opponents rallies.

Don’t look now, the Padres pitching staff now leads MLB in most home runs allowed.

Starters 1-and-2 (Darvish-Musgrove) are hurt.
The middle of the bullpen is struggling again, maybe because of overuse.

The 2-bulldogs in the rotation, (Cease-King) give up home runs and have wild spells too.

Force feeding guys from the El Paso pitching staff has been detrimental as witnessed by the overwhelmed Adam Mazur.

The atrocious record (23-26) vs teams with losing records, is probably as ugly as the team batting averages (.217) against left handed pitching, and this with a big money right handed batting order.

Xander Bogaerts is hurt and wasn’t hitting before that.
Ha Seong Kim looks like he did in year one, overwhelmed at the plate.

Manny Machado is dinged.
Fernando Tatis seems to be just 50% of the power hitter he was.
Luis Arraez is spraying hits but not getting driven in.
There’s a black hole at catcher with Luis Campusano’s weak bat.

Manager Mike Schildt keeps singing the song ‘I believe’ and ‘all is well’, but no one buys that any longer.  This is no longer a ‘small sample size’.

Rumors are rampant, AJ Preller, addicted to always trading, wants to make a deal, to save the season, or maybe save his job.

But upper level ownership says ‘no more trades of top prospects’ having dealt 5-of-10 so far this season.  And no ‘taking on salary’, desperately demanding they stay below the luxury tax.

It’s a mess right now, once they get done playing the 1st place Phillies, the Padres still have 1st place Milwaukee…Atlanta..Boston…and then 1st place Cleveland..1st place Baltimore and always in 1st place-the Dodgers.

In 9-years as GM, AJ Preller has made so many trades, taken on so many name players, given out so many monster contracts, dealt away so many prospects, that there does not seem much of a present and big question marks about what the future is like.

In those 9-years, aside from the 3-month run into the playoffs, the win over the Dodgers and getting to the NLCS with the Phillies, this franchise has accomplished nothing.  On either side of that summer spurt, what has the franchise done?

Big names here, sure.  Big trades there-hell yes.  Big contracts to soon to be aging players-you bet.  But nothing has been accomplished.  Look at the standings at breakfast in the morning, 9-games out of first place.

You tell me Padres fans, are they ‘Contenders….or….Pretenders’?

Maybe the bigger question is Preller’s franchise a ‘House of Cards’, always trying to prevent things from crumbling by making the next big deal?

Going nowhere fast in San Diego.  Keeping score at home, that’s what your scorebook reads..

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