What can we say ? Thank you Kevin Towers for sending Freese to St. Louis for Jim Edmunds. Atleast, the Padres are getting headlines about this wonderful transaction Towers made. It’s good to see a draftee under Sandy Alderson, Grady Fuson and Paul Depodesta make headlines in the World Series. The Padres are the minor league farm team for the Major Leagues and let’s just enjoy it. Speaking on this topic, yesterday I had posted that several teams have insiders knowledge of the Padres farm system. I overlooked one major person, that is Grady Fuson who was let go 2 years to this very date when Jed Hoyer came to the Padres. Oh my ! Oh my ! have times changed so quickly. Anyhow, Grady has been working for Billy Bean in Oakland and guess what. The following are transactions Billy Beane has made with the Padres with the input from Grady Fuson.
- Oakland traded OF’s Aaron Cunningham and Scott Hairston to Padres for 3B Kevin Kouzmanoff and 2B Eric Sogard.
- Oakland acquired (25 Oct 11) Padres P Evan Scribner and OF Cedric Hunter.
There you go, two more Padres draftees under Sandy Alderson and Grady Fuson whom were acquired on the cheap from the Padres. It’s arguably noted the Padres continue to give away talent and perhaps there is another David Freese in the making. It’s that time to close out this post with a Blues Artist known as JJ Gray and Mofro, song titled “DirtFloorCracker” as there are too much crums on the Padres Executive Offices floors. Time for the Padres to get their stuff together, the season ticket holders are watching closely. Otherwise, Silver looks like a better and more lucrative investment than Padres tickets.