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Brewers Acquire Jody Gerut For Tony Gwynn Jr.

By Tim Dierkes | May 21, 2009 at 1:58pm CDT

1:58pm: According to Craig Elsten of 619 Sports, the Brewers acquired Jody Gerut from the Padres for Tony Gwynn Jr. MLB.com's Corey Brock confirms it.

Gerut, 31, had a fine comeback year in '08 but is off to a .221/.248/.381 start in 121 plate appearances this year. He's played center and right field for the Padres. His defense rates as a plus. Since he has decent service time he's up to a $1.775MM salary.

Gwynn cleared waivers in April, so the Padres could've had him for nothing at that time. He didn't hit much in Triple A last year.

1:24pm: Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel passes along a tweet from Brewers assistant GM Gord Ash:

The Brewers will have a press release on a player transaction in the next hour.

That message was posted at about 1pm CST. Haudricourt says it is not Jake Peavy.

Padres Promote Pitching Prospects: Plausible Peavys?

By Howard Megdal | May 20, 2009 at 8:35pm CDT

Mat Latos and Will Inman, two of the best pitching prospects in the San Diego organization, each moved up a level, according to Corey Brock of MLB.com.

Latos jumped from Low-A Fort Wayne directly to Double-A San Antonio, skipping High-A entirely. That's what a 3-0 record, 0.36 ERA will do for you.

Inman moved to Triple-A Portland after posting a 4-1 record and 3.05 ERA in San Antonio.

Why does this matter? Because both pitchers are candidates to replace Jake Peavy in the rotation should the Padres decide to move him. San Diego doesn't look like it needs to aggressively promote in order to help with the 2009 pennant chase, after all.

Odds & Ends: Boras, Francoeur, Cubs

By Tim Dierkes | May 19, 2009 at 1:42pm CDT

Links for Tuesday…

This week's chat will be held tomorrow at 2pm CST.
MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo discusses the Scott Boras effect on this year's draft, while Baseball America's John Manuel provides a draft overview.
SI's Tom Verducci explains why the Rangers are for real. At 23-14, they're in first place (4 games ahead of the Angels).
Andrew Beaton of Hot Foot provides a rebuttal to The Jonathan Sanchez Paradox: Oliver Perez.
Padres exec Paul DePodesta talks about recently acquired shortstop Josh Wilson.
MLB.com's Mark Bowman writes about the Jeff Francoeur situation.
According to Ameet Sachdev of the Chicago Tribune, actors Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, and John Cusack have met separately with Tom Ricketts about investing in the Cubs.
RotoAuthority looks at the groundball rate leaderboard…did you know Gil Meche is second?

More Changes To Come For Padres?

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | May 16, 2009 at 9:30am CDT

According to Nick Canepa of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Padres GM Kevin Towers is embarassed by his team and open to making changes.

"We'll keep changing guys out until we get better. We're going to be doing a little of that."

Tom Krasovic reports that Towers plans on calling up more young players soon. The Padres made some changes yesterday, claiming Josh Wilson and designating Duaner Sanchez for assignment. But as one unnamed Padre puts it, "that's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound."

Padres Claim Josh Wilson, DFA Duaner Sanchez

By | May 15, 2009 at 6:29pm CDT

MLB.com's Corey Brock took to his Twitter account this evening for a few announcements: The Padres have claimed infielder Josh Wilson and designated reliever Duaner Sanchez for assignment.

Wilson, 28, was DFA'd by the Diamondbacks this week after starting the season with a .231/.333/.269 line in 11 games. He'll provide infield depth for the Padres, especially at shortstop. We actually discussed the club's infield situation with Brock just one day ago. The D'Backs, according to MLB.com's Steve Gilbert, signed Abraham Nunez out of the independent league partially to compensate for the loss of infield depth.

Sanchez, a 29-year-old right-hander, went 1-1 with a 9.00 ERA, 2.36 WHIP and 2/8 K/BB ratio in 11 innings after being signed by the San Diego on March 15. Those numbers were simply unacceptable, even for the 13-22 Padres.

Odds & Ends: Sheets, Blanco, Coghlan

By Tim Dierkes | May 15, 2009 at 3:48pm CDT

Links for Friday…

RotoAuthority talks about the popular fantasy pickups this week.
Rangers GM Jon Daniels says Ben Sheets is "watching from a distance" while recovering from elbow surgery, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.
MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan says the Rangers "apparently are in position to sign Guillermo Pimentel, a top outfield prospect from the Dominican Republic" for $1.5-2MM.
Amalie Benjamin of the Boston Globe says Red Sox reliever Javier Lopez cleared waivers and will head to Triple A.
Sam Miller of the OC Register assembled a lineup/slideshow of prospects who deserve a big league shot.
Henry Blanco isn't sure why he wasn't able to re-sign with the Cubs, according to the Chicago Tribune's Paul Sullivan.
Nick Yohanek, the fan who caught Chris Coghlan's first big league home run, explains his side of the story in asking for the following for the ball: a signed Coghlan game bat, a signed Coghlan ball, and a Hanley Ramirez game bat. What's your take on this?

Possibilities For Padres At No. 3

By Tim Dierkes | May 14, 2009 at 5:05pm CDT

The Padres have the third overall pick in the June draft, and ESPN's Keith Law has info on their preferences:

Keith Law has learned that the Padres, owners of the No. 3 overall pick, are high on Cartersville High School (Ga.) CF Donavan Tate, USC SS Grant Green, Missouri RHP Kyle Gibson and Fort Worth Cats RHP Aaron Crow.

In a mock draft released today, Baseball America projected Green as San Diego's pick.

Both articles linked in this post require subscriptions to read fully. As someone who devours tons of baseball information every day, I highly recommend subscribing to both Baseball America and ESPN Insider. You can get three months at BA for $26, and a year of ESPN Insider for $40.

The San Diego Infield

By | May 14, 2009 at 2:53pm CDT

The Padres lost shortstop Luis Rodriguez to a severely sprained ankle last night and now have a fairly serious depth issue at the position. MLB.com's David Brown spoke after the game with manager Bud Black, who noted "noted the presence of (Chris) Burke, along with David Eckstein and Edgar Gonzalez as options 'in a pinch' but indicated general manager Kevin Towers would be working on bringing in someone else."

"We're working our way through that right now," Black added. "K.T., I'm sure, as we speak, is doing evertyhing he can to try to fill that void."

Suspecting the San Diego manager may have been alluding to a possible trade or free agent signing, I probed Corey Brock, the Padres' MLB.com beat writer, for a bit more information. He was kind enough to respond.

"I think that with Rodriguez heading to the DL and rookie Everth Cabrera already there, the team might be covered for a while in-house," Brock wrote in an e-mail. "I believe Eckstein would fill-in at shortstop for a while if needed, leaving Burke and Gonzalez to play a spot (second base) where they might be better off."

As for a free agent signing or trade, Brock noted that "Going outside the organization likely won't happen. They're not looking to add salary." Sounds about right.

Odds & Ends: Bonds, Armas, Strasburg

By Tim Dierkes | May 13, 2009 at 12:44pm CDT

Links for Wednesday…

MLB.com's Joe Frisaro says the Royals received righty Eric Basurto as the player to be named later in the Ross Gload trade.
Tom Glavine hopes to pitch in the Majors this month, according to MLB.com's Mark Bowman.
Back on May 3rd, Bill Shaikin of the L.A. Times wrote about the possibility of Barry Bonds signing with the independent league Long Beach Armada (the team already employs Hideki Irabu and Jose Lima). But Bonds' agent Jeff Borris said, "He's not going to do that."
It appears that Tony Armas Jr. signed a minor league deal with the Braves after the Mets released him.
Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News says Padres beat writer Tom Krasovic of the San Diego Union-Tribune will be out of a job come August. Sorry to hear it; Krasovic does excellent work.
MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo talked to Tony Gwynn about Stephen Strasburg.
Johnny Damon talked about his future again, this time with MLB.com's Bryan Hoch.
Jim Thome would like to return to the White Sox next year, based on his comments to MLB.com's Scott Merkin.

Odds And Ends: Hinch, Manny, Longoria

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | May 8, 2009 at 9:24am CDT

Links for Friday…

Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports believes the D'Backs' new manager, A.J. Hinch, is a "strange choice" because he has no managerial or coaching experience.
Newsday's Ken Davidoff says signing Manny Ramirez was the best move the Mets never made.
MLB.com's Doug Miller and Ken Gurnick sift through a year's worth of Ramirez-related drama.
Tim Sullivan of the San Diego Union-Tribune wonders if the Dodgers will have enough payroll flexibility to take on Jake Peavy's contract, now that Manny has been suspended without pay.
Kirk Kenney of the Union-Tribune asks where Stephen Strasburg belongs in college baseball history.
Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle has a plan to fix the Astros. He'd like to see them trade veterans like Jose Valverde and Carlos Lee and try to win with youth, even if it means losing first.
Tyler Kepner of the New York Times says the contrast between what the Yankees owe Alex Rodriguez and what the Rays owe Evan Longoria illustrates the difference between the AL East rivals.
Buster Olney profiled Longoria for ESPN the Magazine.
More sad news for baseball: Dom Dimaggio died this morning, as MLB.com's Bobbie Dittmeier reports.

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