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Blogging the Offseason: San Diego Padres

Found November 09, 2009 on Simon On Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Adrian Gonzalez,  Kyle Blanks,  Kevin Kouzmanoff,  Chase Headley,  Chris Young,  Clayton Richard,  Cesar Ramos,  Sean Gallagher,  Mark Prior,  Brian Giles
TEAMS: San Diego Padres

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Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here.Today's team is the San Diego Padres and our guest is JBOX from the Padres Blog Gaslamp Ball.1. I think this is the obvious question on everybody's mind, will the Padres trade Adrian Gonzalez? Do you think they should? Why?I think the Padres should consider and be open to trading Adrian Gonzalez. Whether they should actually trade him or not depends on what they are offered in return. If they can trade their best player so that the overall team becomes better than they should. 2. Say the Padres do keep Gonzalez, he obviously needs some lineup protection, is there anyone on the market that you think the Padres will go after to fill that need?I don't think the Padres have any intention of going after anyone at this point. They will live and die by the youth on the team tha...
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