Hells Bells! Make An Offer To Trevor Hoffman Already
bugsandcranks.com 12/2/2008 — The St. Louis Cardinals’ main “problem area” last season was no well kept secret. The bullpen was in shambles two weeks into April and not a move was made that could right the ship. The team already has two live young arms in Chris Perez and Jason Motte, but...

Power on the Padres
hardballtimes.com 1/12/2009 — Jeff Moorad purchasing the Padres is a weird looking deal. For one thing it came together so fast. The Tribune Company couldn't even change the toner on the printer that spits out the Cubs' offer sheets in the time it took this whole deal to materialize. A second odd thing is that despite ...

San Diego Padres Discussion
minorleagueball.com 1/7/2009 — I am now working on the Cardinals. Here is a discussion thread for the next team, the San Diego Padres.

Padres Statement thanks Trevor Hoffman
gaslampball.com 1/14/2009 — I was mentioning the other day that I found it strange that nobody in the Padres Front Office thanked Trevor Hoffman for his years of service.  Well they just released carefully worded statements, probably checked over by a team of lawyers.  ...

Top 30 San Diego Padres Prospects
padres.scout.com 12/14/2008 — Statistics alone can never really provide a fully accurate account of the value of a prospect. While numbers were involved in the final ranking, they were only one of many factors.

Padres re-sign Mark Prior
tireball.com 1/14/2009 — Looks like the San Diego Padres are giving Mark Prior another chance. Last season the Padres paid Prior $1 million to not pitch in any type of game be it spring training or during the season. It’s been two years since Prior has pitched in a game at any level and now at the age of 28 a once ...

Wedding Bells
hardballtimes.com 1/8/2009 — Alyssa Milano is engaged . After going through Carl Pavano, Barry Zito, and Brad Penny -- each of whom left her company a worse and more injured pitcher than when they entered it -- pitching coaches and trainers across baseball are rejoicing that the lucky groom-to-be is not a ballplayer. Order ...

Moorad near deal to buy Padres from Moores
www3.signonsandiego.com 1/3/2009 — hopefully this guy will bring the same winning traits with him! Good then the team can move to tennesses Since the UT has cut their front page stories back to two sentences, here is a short write-up on Moorad. ...

The Padres Front Office Is Dead To Me
rumorsandrants.com 1/9/2009 — As I’m sure you’ve heard, yesterday baseball’s all-time saves leader agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers , officially ending his 16-year tenure with the San Diego Padres. As a lifelong Padres fan, I’m not happy. In ...

Ask the Expert: San Diego Padres
rotoprofessor.com 1/15/2009 — In the latest Ask the Expert, I had an opportunity to pose 5 questions to Tom Krasovic of the San Diego Union-Tribune. In the interview He helped to shed some light onto some of the younger players on the roster, as well as Jake Peavy and the rest of the roster. Come see what he had to say...

Padres ready to be saved by Bell — Major League Baseball News 1/8/2009
Heath Bell, who will replace Trevor Hoffman as the Padres' closer, has saved 110 professional games, 108 as a Minor Leaguer. But he knows this new role, given the stakes and the man he replaces, trumps any previous closing experience.

Hoffman's departure is 'end of an era' — Major League Baseball News 1/8/2009
On the day Trevor Hoffman -- the icon of the Padres -- signed a one-year contract with Brewers, his former teammates and manager on Thursday spoke more of the man than the player.

Trevor Hoffman By The Numbers — Bleacher Report - MLB 1/8/2009
By now, everybody’s heard about the new addition by Doug Melvin—closer Trevor Hoffman joins the crew. Let’s take a look at what we might be able to expect out of him this year. Here, we’ll take a look at three different ...

Trevor Hoffman Is Better With Age, Like a Fine Wine — Bleacher Report - MLB 1/9/2009
Normally I'm skeptical when any team goes after a player who was playing when a guy like Ryan Braun was learning to talk, but Trevor Hoffman, 41, who will suit up with the 2009 Milwaukee Brewers, is a solid investment. The sure Hall of Famer, who ...

Random Baseball Musings: HoF Votes; Padres, Braves Doing the Right Thing — Bleacher Report - MLB 1/8/2009
Baseball musings of this week... Some of the Baseball Hall of Fame votes have been made public. Only one HoF voter so far didn't select Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff man in baseball history--and it's some retired writer named Simpson . ...