There is alot to be said about being complacent and the past winter trading season the Padres were inactive. Entering the halfway mark of the season in July, we are seeing the results of that inactivity and the Padres Baseball Operations team inability to acquire starting pitching. The only hope for now is to take your medicine and remain status quo while writing the season off OR trade some players and prospects for a legit number one starter to stabilize this starting rotation. Let’s face it, there is no legit ace to be in the minors and the only route I see from here is to go and get one through a trade.

I had hope to be writing about positive things on the Padres and during the month of May along with parts of June I sensed great things. Though, in the back of my mind I knew it was way too early. There were signs of major issues to erupt like the several blown saves by RP Huston Street that failed the Padres to keep the Big Mo’ going and perhaps put a few teams like the Dodgers down further in the loss column. The situation at catching was very unsettled until the arrival of Yasmani Grandal and just recently the devastating blow of losing Grandal for the season. The platoon situation in right and center field is becoming all too regular and let’s be real, no manager would want to be put into that situation on deciding who’s the center or right fielder of the day. The Padres are in a unique situation to trade a few players to acquire some high-level tier players for the franchise. I am not suggesting two or three players, just one head-liner at the position and one at the pitching.

Speaking about the Manager, there is a consistent pattern developing here that depicts one of two things going on. One, the Manager does not have the right mix of players OR two, the Manager does not have the ability to steer the ship around quickly. What I am alluding to is the major losing streaks in the past 4 years during Mgr Buddy Black’s tenure and here are the facts:

1. In 2010, the Padres were 6 1/2 games in front of the San Francisco Giants. But the Padres went on a 10-game losing streak from 26 Aug 2010 through 5 Sept 2010. Eventually lost the division to the World Champions San Francisco Giants.
2. In 2011, the Padres went on 9-game losing streak from 24 Aug 2011 through 4 Sept 2011. During the season in which they finished in dead last at 71-91.
3. Presently 2013, the Padres were in 2nd place 2 games out from first place Arizona Diamondbacks. But are in a 9-game losing streak from 29 Jun 2013 through 7 July 2013. Currently, in dead last once again and 7 1/2 games out from first place Arizona Diamondbacks.

As you can see the above numbers does represent a bad pattern and something must be done very soon to rectify this most obvious pattern. The ball is on the Padres baseball Operations team and being inactive this time around is not acceptable, unless you believe in being a fat rat who is complacent. We all know what happens when the fat rat is complacent, he is caught and eliminated.

Here is a video I developed featuring in the background “The Doobie Brothers” song titled “Dangerous”. Yes, Padres fans the hard times have reappeared once again and hopefully the baseball operations team can hear our displeasure of their inactivity during the past 10 months in the trade market. Remember “Crisis Presents Opportunities”.