Each year the team at MadFriars.com comes up with a list of the Padres’ Top 20 prospects. This year, Simon Castro and Jaff Decker head the list of twenty prospects who MadFriars believes will have the greatest potential to impact the future of the Padres organization.
But where’s last year’s #1 pick, Donavan Tate? And how did last year’s #1 prospect, Cedric Hunter, fall off this year’s list altogether? After the jump, you can read the MadFriars prospect list. Below, listen to John Conniff from MadFriars.com as he joins Craig and Chris to break down the Padres’ farm system in a companion podcast:
So the San Diego Padres send out a ticket brochure to former season ticket holders for 2010 — and there isn’t a single photo anywhere in there of All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. First thought: Does that mean that the Padres plan on not having Adrian Gonzalez on their ballclub next season?
Seems like a fair question. After all, why in the world would the Padres try to sell tickets without so much as a mention of the one true superstar they have to sell? Would the ‘89 Padres have put out a season ticket brochure without a photo of Tony Gwynn? Five years ago, would the Friars have left out Trevor Hoffman? Or Jake Peavy?
What in the world of weak-thinking marketing strategies is going on here?
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I had the opportunity to write an article for the latest Padres Magazine (available during the current homestand at Petco Park) profiling the gains made by the draft class of 2008, particularly at the plate. As part of that story I got to sit down with Padres’ VP of Scouting and Player Development Grady Fuson [...]
ShareLAKE ELSINORE — While the upper levels of the Padres’ farm system have failed to produce impact prospects over the last few seasons, there is greater hope at the lower levels. The past two drafts have brought some power arms into the system, and those arms were on display Tuesday night at The Diamond in [...]
ShareEvery time I see the Padres fight their way through another low scoring, one-run win at Petco Park, I am reminded that the path to victory is clear for this franchise. Petco Park is developing a reputation now as a unique pitchers’ ballpark, so extreme in its effects that it allows mediocre pitchers to thrive [...]
Ghosts Of 2001 and Other Matters
June 19, 2009ShareEvery time I see the Padres fight their way through another low scoring, one-run win at Petco Park, I am reminded that the path to victory is clear for this franchise. Petco Park is developing a reputation now as a unique pitchers’ ballpark, so extreme in its effects that it allows mediocre pitchers to thrive [...]