Manny fucking Ramirez

There's a problem with the San Diego Padres right now...we have no money in a buyers market. This is terrible.

I don't think the team was that bad last year, I was just checking out Baseball Prospectus and, yeah, they were underperformed by maybe four wins according to their pythagorean projection.

I know this doesn't seem all that far out, but...Manny fucking Ramirez got the Dodgers in the playoffs. They won the division by two games with the Diamondbacks only two back. Manny's Warp3 over the course of 223(!) plate appearances? 5.6. That's ridiculous. That's like a third of the season. He had a 5.2 warp3 with the freaking Red Sox over two thirds of the season. Albert Pujols had like a 13.5 over the whole season. Soo....a motivated Manny over the whole season was worth more than Albert Pujols. By like 3.3 wins. That's ridiculous, again. Aaaannddd...Warp3 accounts for defense!! Which means that Manny playing an easy left field in Boston for two thirds of the season was worth less wins than Manny playing huge left field in L.A. for a third of a season. Stupid. Very very stupid. He's either going to cash in or some team (goddamn Giants) is going to sign him and get a great hitter for a small contract.

And I know I'm beating a dead horse here. But Brian Giles' Warp3 for the full year was...6.9. Manny, for a third of the season, at no cost to the Dodgers, was worth about a win less. For a third of the season. At no cost. (except for some minor league garbage).

I hate being a Padres fan. I suppose I do go to school in Philly...but I get the feeling that was fluky.

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So...we have given up. The padres quit. We signed Eckstein. To play second base. I suppose he's alright there. Whatever. Hoffy's gone, Peavy's sure to get moved eventually. Although it looks like midseason at this point. At least we got Giles. And Wade LeBlanc.

In a terrible division with a glut of free agents on the market where catching even like two of them would have given us the division...the Padres fold. Sorry Moores. This is your fault. Get a divorce in like three years. Not this year.