With The San Diego Padres turning to their newly acquired Rookie Chad Reineke for starting pitching help, he proved he was worth ever bite of ex-Padre Randy Wolf. Reineke looked Sharp; at first he struggled but then he settled in throwing up 5 innings 5 hits 3 runs all earned 3 BBs and 5 strikeouts, all-n-all he was throwing heat and locating with little effort.

The Bullpen followed-up with its shut down self (of lately) with Mike Adams,Clay Hensley,Heath Bell and newly acquired Padre Brian Falkenborg combining to throw up 4 shutout innings behind Reineke; only giving up one hit 2 BBs and 8 strikeouts.

The Batting had a tune that sounded like this, Jody Gerut went 3-5 with 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored. Tadahito Iguchi went 2-4 with a hit a BB and 2 strikeouts, Brian Giles went 2-2 with 3 RBIs one hit one run scored and a sac-fly making 4 RBIs. Adrian Gonzalezwent 2-2 with 2 BBs, Kevin Kouzmanoff went 2-4 with an RBI, Chase Headley went 2-3 with one hit one walk and 2 runs scored.

Reineke helped himself to 1-2 with RBI hit and a run scored, and a strikeout, also Edger Gonzalez had a walk with a run scored on a pitch-hit appearance.

Tomorrow’s game will be national ey televised on ESPN at 5:05pm pt/8:05pm et with the Padres sending to the mound Cha Seung Beak(4-7) vs. San Diego’s hometown boy Cole Hamels(9-8).

 RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860   

Greg Maddux $10,000,000
Brian Giles $9,666,666
Jim Edmonds $8,000,000
Trevor Hoffman $7,500,000
Jake Peavy $6,500,000
Randy Wolf $4,750,000
Khalil Greene $4,500,000
Tadahito Iguchi $3,850,000
Michael Barrett $3,500,000
Chris Young $2,625,000
Josh Bard $2,237,500
Mark Prior $1,000,000
Tony Clark $900,000
Adrian Gonzalez $875,000
Glendon Rusch $850,000
Jody Gerut $700,000
Wilfredo Ledezma $620,000
Heath Bell $420,000
Cla Meredith $415,000
Clay Hensley $410,000
Kevin Kouzmanoff $410,000
Scott Hairston $406,000
Justin Germano $404,500
Justin Hampson $402,500
Joe Thatcher $393,000
Paul McAnulty $391,250
Tim Stauffer $391,200
Callix Crabbe $390,000
Enrique Gonzalez(not Edger Gonzalez) $390,000
Carlos Guevara $390,000
Justin Huber $390,000
Total $73,677,616
Source: USA Today, LoHud.com

Here is something pretty big that is stuck in my throat that is hard to swallow as a Padres fans! Can you find the holes where the money is going. One thing its not going too the players that are performing well this year Adrian or Edger, oh but wait I can’t even find him on this list. Because he on a minor league contact, if I was going to guess and I know the Padres either splitting a contact with someone or a few; or he’s making under 50k. 

The San Diego Padres found an unlikely suitor for lefty starter Randy Wolf in The Houston Astros. Here are the reactions: Paul DePodesta thinks Chad Reineke might be able to help the Padres soon. Richard Justicecalls it a stubborn move for the Astros, who “threw $3.5MM at a lost season.” MLB.com’s Jim Molonywonders if the Astros could shop Wolf in August if the team falls further out of contention. An Ed Wadequote reveals part of the motivation for the acquisition - the GM says the Astros get their foot in the door in case they want to sign Wolf  for the seasons to come.

A day after a close win for The San Diego Padres and hours after the news came down from up stairs about the trade of Randy Wolf, the padres lost to the Reds 4-3 in 11 innings. The Padres look like they didn’t want to be there. Jake Peavystarted out strong going 5 scoreless then in the sixth inning it came undone, as P.Bako hit a 2run single fallowed by a one run single by J.Votto.

Then in the 11th inning J.Keppinger hit a double which Chase Headleylooked like he gave up on it,  scoring the winning run in J.Burce, it was given up by Byan Corey it being the second walk-off giving up in as few days.
Mike Adams,Heath Bell,Cla Meredithcombined to throw up 4 scoreless innings only giving up one hit,2BB and 8 strikeouts.
Batting and fielding wise the padres seemed like they didn’t not want to play,they kind of look like boys who lost their dogs or best friends, very depressed look and play. They made basic plays into errors,they were swinging at balls and most of the time it was swings at ball 4, instead of taking them they looked comfortable walking back to the dougout.
The Padres had a combined total 6 hits three of them coming for Edger Gonzales and brother Adian Gonzales had one with a RBI,BB,SO.
One other bright spot is Brian Giles had one hit,one run two RBI’s,two walks,two SO
also Khalil Greene had a hit and Luke Carlin had a run scored.

All-in-All the game started out good but throughout the game you could since the Padres were not on top of their game, making clearly mental mistakes fielding and batting.
Tomorrow’s game will not be on T.V as Greg Maddux(3-8) vs B.Arroyo(8-7) at 9:35am can listen on XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860.

A late move this afternoon as The San Diego Padresmade their second move before the trade deadline as for the second time they sell low. I didn’t think their first move was right when they sold Tony Clarkto a team we have to compete with, unless they don’t think they have a chance this year, but the thing is that no one is running away with it in the NL west so why would you trade a player known for killing you in big time situation!
So on a bitter note the padres made a similar move today, but they at least didn’t trade within the division but they did sell pretty low for a left-hand veteran that they could of used down the stretch.
Well it went like this the padres acquired RHP Chad Reineke from The Houston Astros in exchange for LHP Randy Wolf.
R.Wolf with the line of 6-10 4.74 ERA IN 21 games 119.2IP 123 hits 69 runs 63 of them earned 14HRs 8 hit batters 47 BB and 105 strikeouts. For in-exchange for:
C.Reineke a RHP starter for The Round Rock Express(AAA) the Houston apparent club, with a line of: 5-9 4.41ERA in 20 games 19 of them started one complete game 112.1 innings pitched giving up 112 hits 62 runs 55 of them earned 15HRs 35BB 100 strikeouts. one bright note he is only 26 years old so we’ll see what becomes of him.

At this point in time if The San Diego Padres become sellers here are a few key suggestions for good trades too upgrade the team for 09′ and the years to come!
Take the 08′ season to be over as of right now this is what I would do, Trade:
Brian Giles-RF, RHP-Justin Germano and Randy Wolf-LHP trade them to St.Louis for Colby Rasums-CF, Micthell Boggs-RHP AND (AA) C-Matt Pangnozzi.
Greg Maddux, Cla Meredith and Sean Henn LHP (AAA) to the Phillies for Kris Benson and T.J Bohn OF (AAA).
Scott Hairston and Edwin Moreno CL (AAA) to the Dodgers for SS-Parker Dalton and RHP-Robert Blevins (both A).
Then trade Josh Bard, Shawn Estes, Clay Hensley and Cha Seung Beak to Boston for SS-Iggy Suarez (AA) and RHP Kyle Weiland (A).
Trade Tampa Bay RF-Erik Hinske, Jeff Niemann RHP(AAA) and Reid Fronk LF(A) for Jody Gerut and Trevor Hoffman.
The big one being Kevin Kouzmanoff ,Tadahito Iguchi ,Joe Thatcher ,Michael Barrett, Paul McAnulty , Justin Huber ,CL(AA)Greg Burke ,RHP(AA)Gabriel DeHoyos and Jon Schemmel 2B(AA) for Brian Fuentes and Garrett Atkins.
Making the rest of the 08′ and the Padres for 09′ look like this;
Starting Pitching: 1.Jake Peavy 2.C.Y or Joshua Geer until C.Y gets back. 3. K.Benson 4.Josh Banks
5. M.Boggs or J.Geer whom ever steps up for the 5th spot in the rotation.
Bullpen: (CL) B.Fuentes, Heath Bell, Byan Corey, Mike Adams, Justin Hampson, Kevin Cameron and Will Ledezma until Brett Tomko returns from the 15 day-DL
Fielding squad: Luke Carlin or Nick Hudley at catcher, Adrian Gonzales-1B, Edger Gonzales-2B, Khalil Greene-SS, G.Atkins-3B, LF-Chase Headley, CF-Chip Ambres
RF-E.Hinske. Backup’s: OF-C.Rasums and T.J Bohn.INF-Brian Myrow and Louis Rodriguez.
The Batting lineup: 1.C.Ambres 2.Ed.Gonzales 3.G.Atkins 4.A.Gonzales
5. C.Headley 6.E.Hinske 7. K.Greene 8. L.Carlin or N.Hudley.
9. Starting Pitcher.

The San Diego Padresstarted out strong in the 1st inning with Adrian Gonzales scoring his brother with a RBI double andKevin Kouzmanoff scoring Brain Giles on the next hit. Then in the second inning Edger Gonzaleshit a 3 run home-run making it 5-0 padres.

But it would not hold up as Randy Wolfgave up 4 runs in the 5th inning and 2 in the sixth going 5 and two thirds innings give up 8 hits 6 runs, 4 of them earned 2 BB 4 SO. The game was close but the padres couldn’t respond after the cardinal started coming back in the 5th, the padres should have know that the cardinals powerful lineup was going to rebound after the first two innings.

Well will all see if the padres can pull at least one out of this series tomorrow with Cha Seung Baek(2-5) 5.25 ERA vs J.Garcia 0.00 in two innings pitched this year. On one positive note Clay Hensleywas brought up yesterday from Portland and today he pitched one scoreless inning.

For the second game in a row The San Diego Padres get out dueled by The St. Louis Cardinals, 7-11 the cardinals starting the series off strong as they hit two home runs adding too a total of six in the series so far. the padres used a total of six pitchers in the game as the cardinals used the same amount. Greg Madduxwent 4 innings giving up 8 hits 6 runs all earned one walk 4 strikeouts and gave up one home run.

Bryan Corey, Cla Meredith and Mike Adamscombined to throw 2 one third innings scoreless only allowing 3 hits while getting 3 strikeouts. Joe Thatcher allowed one HR and one hit on two and third innings pitched, in a rare outing Heath Bell gave up 4 run on 4 hits all earned walked 2 strikeout 2 and earned the loss on one inning pitched.

The bats where out tonight they just were out swung by the cardinal. Khalil Greene andJody Gerut both homered, Edger Gonzales was 2-4 with 2 hits and a run also one strikeout brother Adrian Gonzales had a hit and an RBI. Brain Giles was 3-4 with RBI and one run scored, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Chase Headleycombined to hit a 1 for 9 with one hit and one RBI and 4 strikeouts, G.Maddux went 1-1 with a run scored.

It was a good tight Baseball game like game are supposed to be, unfortunately the padres came out on the losing end of it, maybe with tomorrow’s game being on FOX (some prime-time) they will find away to pull one off in this series, the starter being Randy Wolf(6-9) vs T.Wellemeyer(7-4) game starts at 12:55 pt.

The latest on the team’s trade candidates:

Neither team may be interested, however.  Bowman says The Atlanta Bravesare looking for offense and prefer to develop their young pitchers.  And Maddux himself doesn’t think The Dodgers need pitching (after all, they’ve got Clayton Kershaw in the minors).

We learned on Friday That Padres GM Kevin Towers has informed Greg Madduxof which teams are interested, and Maddux will take the break to consider his options.  Would he be up for The Philadelphia Phillies or  The St. Louis Cardinals?  Are those teams interested?

• GM Kevin Towers recently told Greg Maddux which teams have expressed interest in him.  The Professor will ponder his options over the break, since he controls his fate with a full no-trade clause.  Possible suitors like The Chicago Cubs and The Milwaukee Brewers may have backed off, I imagine.
• As expected, Randy Wolf is drawing interest.
• Tony Clark could be moved within a few days, with The Arizona Diamondbacks the rumored suitor.
• The Padres are only looking to move veterans, and want prospects in return.
• The Cubs recently inquired on The Padres shortstop Khalil Greene. Who prefer not to sell low on Greene, however.The Cubs have been linked to Khalil Greene in the past, and The Padres were asking about Felix Pie about a year ago. Perhaps Pie has lost the untouchable label with his .264/.315/.442 performance at Triple A.  He’s hitting better lately, though.

   Khalil Greene is on the first year of a two-year, $11MM deal.  He’s said he wants to stay in San Diego, though Kevin Towers once suggested he might prefer to be on The East Coast near his family. Khalil Greene’s had a rough year with a .216/.264/.329 line in 375 plate appearances.

On the final home Sunday game of the first half going into the All-Star Game, The San Diego Padres got whooped like a child trying too seal a cookie for they Grandma! The Padres lost to The Braves 12-3. The only highlights for The Padres offensively were Kevin Kouzmanoff with a 2 run homer in the in the bottom of the sixth off of Jorge Campillo, then Chase Headley hit his sixth homer of the year off of Mike Gonzalez in the bottom of the ninth with no outs. The Braves on the other hand had too much offence to even talk about.

Randy Wolf pitching was not so hot giving up 6 ER on 6 hits walked 3 strokeout one, hit two by pitch in five innings of work, moving to 6-9 on the year. Beak/Banks/Corey/Meredith combined to throw up six more runs in 4 innings.

Just ones personal opinion we should start thinking of is a fire sale. The team has lost its active youth sprit that they work so hard the last few years get. It’s time to trade the old players that we have been waiting for them to come back around with thier numbers and stats. Get some prospects for them,then bring up the kids from our Farm Team and let them play.