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Wildest baseball swings of the week
Hey there, and welcome to the second part of the sixth edition of The Worst Of The Best. Here’s a link to last week’s second part, which happened to cover twice as many weeks as usual due to reasons. This post would’ve gone up sooner in the day, but MLB.tv chose this afternoon to be obnoxiously buggy with the archives, and this series is completely, utterly, helplessly dependent...
Daily FanDuel Picks: May 10, 2013
What a relief! Yesterday “hectorrondon” got back on track with a 34.50-point effort and a fifth place finish in one of FanDuel’s 50/50, double-up contests. David Price carried my squad with eight innings of eight-strikeout ball and just two earned runs allowed, but he was unable to earn the victory.Offensively, Alex Gordon came through with 8.50 points, hitting his third homer...
Padres-Rays Preview
If Edinson Volquez continues his turnaround, the San Diego Padres have a good chance to record their longest winning streak of the season.
Volquez seeks a fourth straight win and the Padres look for their fifth in a row Friday night in the opener of a three-game set against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.
After a 5-15 start, San Diego (16-18) has turned things around by...
D-backs head to rainy L.A. to take on Dodgers
Who says is never rains in Southern California? The D-backs played in a light drizzle for several innings in San Diego on Sunday and awoke to fairly heavy rains in Los Angeles on Monday morning.
The D-backs have lost five of six, all in the NL West, and after a nice offensive game Saturday, they struggled to adjust to the Padres Edinson Volquez, who used his off-speed stuff effectively...
Padres 5, Diamondbacks 1
Rookie Jedd Gyorko hit a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth and Will Venable followed with a solo shot to help carry Edinson Volquez and the San Diego Padres to a 5-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Volquez won his third straight start and the Padres, who took two of three from the Diamondbacks, won for the eighth time in 11 games. The Diamondbacks have lost...
Padres deal D-backs fifth loss in six games
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Rookie Jedd Gyorko hit a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth and Will Venable followed with a solo shot to help carry Edinson Volquez and the San Diego Padres to a 5-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Volquez won his third straight start as the Padres, who took two of three from the Diamondbacks, won for the eighth time in 11 games. The D-backs...
D-backs regroup, lick wounds, head to San Diego
Perhaps a day off was what the Diamondbacks needed to reset after a painful sweep at the hands of the Giants, capped by consecutive blown saves. Despite wins in two of their last three series, the D-backs entered the off day beaten down by the bullpen struggles.
"This is a tough time," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said after Wednesday's game. "We've just got...
Padres 13, Cubs 7
Carlos Quentin homered and drove in three runs and the San Diego Padres battered Cubs starter Edwin Jackson in a 13-7 win over Chicago on Tuesday night.
Edinson Volquez (2-3) was good enough to beat the Cubs for the fifth time in his career, working 5 2-3 innings and allowing four runs while striking out three in his first outing against Chicago while with San Diego. Volquez is...
Padres rumors: Edinson Volquez, Clayton Richard trade candidates
While the San Diego Padres' starting rotation currently sports the worst ERA in the National League, the team could look to shop starters -- including Edinson Volquez and Clayton Richard -- over the summer, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.
While the team's rotation has struggled so far this season -- entering the week with a combined 5.33 ERA -- it's also...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (9-15) vs San Diego Padres (9-15)
It was nice to see the Cubs beating up on another team for once this year. They get to face another team that may be worse than they are in the Padres. The Padres have had a weird season so far. They opened the year with a series loss of the Mets, and have been swept by the Giants and the Rockies (twice!). However, they are currently coming off a sweep of the world champions, and...
Padres 2, Brewers 1
Edinson Volquez threw seven strong innings and Carlos Quentin hit his first home run of the season, helping the San Diego Padres snap Milwaukee's nine-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory over the Brewers on Wednesday night.
Volquez (1-3) allowed just five singles, struck out three and did not walk a batter, lowering his ERA from 8.84 to 6.39 as San Deigo ended a five-game...
Brewers look to stretch streak to double digits
The Milwaukee Brewers continue to roll and aren't showing any signs of slowing down.
The slumping San Diego Padres are surely glad to see them leaving town.
Seeking a 10th consecutive win, the Brewers try to sweep the Padres for the first time in 10 seasons Wednesday night.
After winning 7-1 in Monday's series opener, Milwaukee (11-8) jumped all over San Diego starter Clayton...
Padres-Giants Preview
Few starting pitchers have been better than Madison Bumgarner thus far. There may not be one off to a worse start than Edinson Volquez.
Those two squaring off appears to give the San Francisco Giants a big edge Friday night at AT&T Park, as might their recent history against the San Diego Padres going into the season series opener between these NL West foes.
While the Padres...
MadFriars' Daily Farm Report: April 13
On a night when Edinson Volquez threw nearly 100 pitches without escaping the 4th inning, two top prospects show the system how it is done.
Daily Friar 4.2.13
Well that was an ugly game to watch yesterday (Steve Adler thinks so too as you will see in the links below). There are so many questions I have about it all though that leave me scratching my head. The most glaring one has to be Edinson Volquez. He pitched for his country in the World Baseball Classic and was phenomenal for them. That was the equivalent of the world series for him...
Good, Bad, and Ugly v. Mets 4/1/13
Mets 11- Padres 2
WP: J. Niese (1-0)
LP: E. Volquez (0-1)
HR: Alonso (1), Cowgill (1)
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Good:
Chris Denorfia – Leads off the Padres season with a single, draws a walk and scored a run.
Jedd Gyorko – 1-4 with his first major...
Mets Game Chatter – Opening Day
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Padres Projected 25-Man Opening Day Roster
Spring Training is coming to a close and the Padres are making the final tweaks to the roster. At this point guessing is at a minimum, but this is my best guess at the projected 25-man roster on opening day, April 1st.
Projected 25 Man Roster
Position
Name
SP
Edinson Volquez
SP
Clayton Richard
SP
Jason Marquis
SP
Eric Stults
SP
Tyson Ross
RP
Andrew Cashner...
Daily Friar 3.28.13
I guess if you’re going to be wild you might as well be very effectively wild. Such was the case yesterday as Edinson Volquez took the hill against the Reds. Padre fans know what we are getting out of Volquez each time he goes to the mound and that is that we don’t know which Volquez we will get each time he goes to the mound. We either see a great pitching performance where...
Reds 7, Padres 3
Edinson Volquez was wild in his warmup to start the Padres' opener, walking six as the Cincinnati Reds beat San Diego 7-3 Wednesday.
Volquez is set to pitch Monday against the Mets in New York. He was pulled after his sixth walk with no outs in the sixth inning, and gave up one run and two hits.
Shin-Soo Choo's second home run of the spring was the first hit allowed by...
Padres Name Opening Day Starter
Clayton Richard
The Padres have announced via twitter that Edinson Volquez will start opening day versus the New York Mets at Citi Field. Volquez, acquired last season along with Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal, and Brad Boxberger in exchange for Mat Latos pitched well in spurts, but couldn’t seem to avoid free passes, walking a league leading 105 hitters.
Volquez has a record...
Volquez to start opener for Padres
Edinson Volquez is set to start on opening day for the San Diego Padres.
Manager Bud Black said Monday that Volquez will get the assignment. The Padres open next Monday in New York against the Mets.
This will be the third straight year that Volquez has started an opener. He pitched the first game for Cincinnati in 2011 and for the Padres last season.
Volquez started each round...
You may say I'm a dreamer: San Diego Padres
What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2013 title for all 30 teams.
The cool thing about streaks is that they'll eventually end. In their 45th season of existence, the San Diego Padres ended their streak of season without a World Series championship...
Dominican Republic ends Netherlands' Cinderella run to set up all Latin America WBC final
When the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands faced off on Monday night in the second WBC semifinal, the game pitted the tournament's best team in the Dominicans against the tournament's best story in the upstart Dutch. As it turned out, the undefeated Dominican buzzsaw was too much for the Cinderella Netherlands team. The DR rode another dominating pitching performance...
Dominicans beat Netherlands 4-1, reach WBC final
This time, the Dominicans didn't let the Netherlands interfere with their road to the World Baseball Classic championship.
Late lineup addition Moises Sierra hit a tying RBI double in the fifth, Jose Reyes added a go-ahead single two batters later and the Dominican Republic reached the WBC final with a 4-1 win against the Netherlands on Monday night.
Edwin Encarnacion had an...
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