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Donavan Tate Update

San Diego's 1st round pick from 2009 has injured himself again, his 5th injury since joining the team. He injured his thumb last night in extended spring training and is now out until late June or July at the earliest. He will not  be ready to join a team when extended spring training ends, so he will probably just stay in Arizona for Instructs and maybe join the Arizona Fall League.

Scott Hairston to the DL: Denorfia Recalled

Scott Hairston has been put on the 15 day DL, with a Hamstring injury. Chris Denorfia has had his contract purchased from AAA Portland. In a corresponding move, Chris Young was moved to the 60 Day DL to make room on the 40 man roster.

Tim Stauffer has his Appendix Removed

Stauffer is now out up to 6 weeks, Cesar Ramos will be called up to take his place. Adam Russell also on the way from AAA Portland. He started complaining about pain at 3 AM, and was taken to the hospital were he had an appendectomy, bummer, he was pitching really well.

Off Day News

Kevin Correia was placed on the Bereavement list for a minimum of 3 days and a max of 7. Tim Stauffer will start on Saturday if necessary.
Top prospect Jaff Decker is a week or so away from joining Lake Elsinore.
Last year's #1 draft pick Donavan Tate is still out indefinitely and in extended Spring Training after being hit in the head by a pitch a couple weeks back.

Farm System Recap

AAA Portland wins 4-3 vs Reno
Frieri (2-1 1.80 ERA)picks up the win in relief of Inman (7 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 3 K's) who pitched a good game, needs to cut down the walks though. His line on the year now is 2-0 with a 2.41 ERA.
Luis Durango went 1-5 with a run scored.

AA San Antonio lost to Corpus Christi 5-1, Nate Culp took the loss. James Darnell and Logan Forsythe not in the lineup.

High A Lake Elsinore loses to Rancho Cucamonga 4-0
Antony Bass takes the loss but pitched a good game, 7 IP, 3 ER and 4 K's. Everth Cabrera made a rehab start and played 5 innings, had three at bats, went 0-2 with a BB. SS prospect Drew Cumberland went 0-4 with 3 K's from the DH spot, dropping his average to .389

Low A Fort Wayne lost to Dayton 4-3
Rymer Liriano went 1-4 with a 2B and run scored.

Bro-BI Be Gone

As we have seen over the past 5-6 years the Padres have assembled teams with the two brothers. For example
Brian and Marcus Giles
Adrian And Edgar Gonzalez and this year
Scott and Jerry Hairston Jr.
All of the previous brothers have been comeplete disasters, both of the siblings of the star players were utility guys, average bat but could play all over the field. Yesterday it proved costly, "Jack of all trades" and second most expensive off season pickup Jerry Hairston Jr blew a routine play in the 9th. Managing to throw the ball into the stands, he put a runnner at 2nd, who later scored after a groundout that moved him to third and a sac fly that brought him home.

Strikeouts and Send Downs
So far I count more screwups than contributions to the team for Jerry, while he does not strike out as much as Kyle Blanks or Will Venable, he has not been the veteran clutch hitter the team was expecting. Sure it's early, but the Padres are in first place and talking about maybe sending Blanks down to AAA, which would be a huge mistake. Nothing messes with a young hitter more than roller coaster rides from the bigs to the minors then up and down again. They made the decision to make him a starter now let him battle through his struggles, or move him up in the lineup, hitting in front of Adrian in the 23rd spot would be ideal. He would see better pitches batting in front of Adrian and perhaps come out of his slump.

Padres Milb Starters for 5/10/2010

AAA Portland- Will Inman 2-1 2.36 ERA
AA San Antonio- Nate Culp 0-2 6.35 ERA
High A Lake Elsinore- Anthony Bass 1-1 4.24 ERA
Low-A Fort Wayne- TBD

First Friarism

This is the first post to my new blog. It will contain my thoughts about the San Diego Padres as well as San Diego Chargers and other sports.