Colletti: "Oops! We Forgot About Pitching..."

Nice win last night. The bats did it. They got the 8 runs. Only 3 players distinguish the Padres from your typical first year expansion team: Adrian Gonzalez, Jake Peavy and Heath Bell. Otherwise, they may as well be the '69 Padres. or the '69 Expos, or the '98 Devil Rays. In other words, if you don't beat San Diego at home, it's pretty pathetic. This team needs to beat the D'Backs when they're back at full strength, the Cards, the Cubs, the Brewers, the Astros, the Reds, the Braves, the Fish, the Phils, the Mets,and the Bucs. Every one of those teams are far better than the weaklings they've been beating up on.

Hard to bank on youth like Kershaw and McDonald and a lot riding on Wolf who's never been anything better than a 3 or 4 guy in any rotation. (Maybe one year with Philly he was their #2) Kuroda is no Dice K. So, again, I ask, how do you part ways with a Derek Lowe and not replace him? And whom do they deal at the All Star break for a front line starter? Pierre, DeWitt, Xavier Paul? What kind of arm will that fetch them? And what front line starter will be available? Halladay with the Jays in the hunt? Here's hoping Toronto falls apart. Or Bedard or Washburn with Seattle in the hunt? Even Kansas City would be loathe to give up a Greinke or a Meche. They had the money for a quality arm in addition to Manny but McCourt cries poor. With Sabathia and Burnett struggling, it appears they should've just re-signed Lowe. Unless they can wrest Peavy from the Dads (they'll want a fortune in valuable personnel) or Zach Duke from Pittsburgh, or if the Chisox falter, maybe they can take Buehrle off of Reinsdorf's hands, or that the Tribe continues to choke and Cliff Lee becomes available. I doubt many of these scenarios will materialize and I really don't think there's going to be much out there. There's no way this team has the pitching to win anything substantial unless Kershaw becomes Koufax, like, now. Just seems to me like Colletti didn't think this through.

It's time to give Russell Martin 3 days off in a row.