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Padres Promote Headley
According to MLB.com's Corey Brock, San Diego general manager Kevin Towers said on Saturday that Chase Headley, regarded as the top prospect in the Padres' Minor League system, will join the team this weekend in Cleveland. "He's on his way," Towers said.
Headley, the converted third baseman who is in his first season playing the outfield, was hitting .305 with 13 home runs and 40 RBIs in 65 games for Triple-A Portland.
Headley got off to a slow start at Triple-A this season, but has since heated up. Frankly, what does San Diego have to lose? The Padres are 7.5 games back. Their outfield is a major weakness. This promotion was beyond due. If you own Headley in your keeper fantasy league, today is a happy day.
Coley Ward writes for Umpbump.com. He can be reached here.
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Time to see what he can do, as a Padres fan I have high hopes for him in time, but for now anything like .285/.350/.415 would be gravy.
Posted by: AirmanSD | June 14, 2008 at 07:36 PM
is it just me or is this site dead today poster wise.
Posted by: Dev0 | June 14, 2008 at 08:31 PM
It is dead today, but its a weekend. And there isnt much going on out there. Plus honestly its not worth much since we tend to complain about the same thing over and over again. But on the plus side, its now a month and half till the trade deadline.
Posted by: AirmanSD | June 14, 2008 at 08:46 PM
Yeah, it's real slow around here.
Come on guys, let's post our craziest fantasy Cubs lineups.
Posted by: helloelan | June 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM
its been nice not to see the regular guys ranting about anything...seeing topics that dont have like 75 posts to it...
Posted by: Larsen101 | June 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM
"is it just me or is this site dead today poster wise.
Posted by: Dev0 | June 14, 2008 at 08:31 PM"
F*ck you, and whatnot.
Posted by: ArodSucksAtLife | June 15, 2008 at 03:27 AM
6.5 games out now, after Kouz put another whoopin on his former team. Watch the Pads win today and steal a series from the yanks. The NL West is weak, SD has more than a chance. Mind you, Peavy just got back and Chris Young hasn't pitched in ages.
Posted by: istravin | June 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Yea, real slow. I would rather here only about cubs doing. Like how we are going to trade for CC and burnett and every other impending free agent pitcher. Lets add KRod to that mix.
I'm happy to see the padres waited on promoting headley for a couple reasons. This gave him a couple months to feel out playing LF. But mainly now we won't get into the same abritration problems as the phils did with howard. Since they brought howard up 5 days too early (they didn't know at the time), he qualified for super2 status and have to pay him an extra year of arb. This way when its time to decide if headley is super2 or not he will have less than 140 days playing time so we should get our usual 6 years of control, and only 3 of arb.
Posted by: UCSDPadsFan | June 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Just thought I'd point out that the Padres' outfield is not a weakness. McAnulty and Gerut are both putting up better than league average numbers and Brian Giles is having an All-Star caliber season in right.
Posted by: Intentional Blog On Balls | June 17, 2008 at 02:44 AM