The last time I posted was almost three weeks ago and a big part of that was some system wide problems that I had with our network that made it extremely difficult to post. Things have been fixed though so I’m hoping to get back into a regular schedule.
And it’s just in time because the Padres are heating up. They’ve won three of their last four games and they head to Seattle for a three game series with interleague play starting up.
Of course you can’t say too much about how the Padres are doing without talking about Jake Peavy. I took some heat for taking him in the first round of my fantasy draft last year and it just looks like I was a year ahead of myself because Peavy is a Cy Young contender once again. He leads the league in strikeouts and ERA and he sits with a 5-1 record. Only two times has he given up more the two runs and in six of his nine starts, he’s given up just one run or less.
On the hitting side, Adrian Gonzalez has been the star. He already has ten homeruns and he also leads the team with 31 RBIs.
The rest of the rotation has done a nice job as well and the Padres lead all of baseball with a 3.14 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP.
So hopefully, the Padres can make up that three game deficit in a hurry. The first order of business are the Mariners though and Chris Young gets the start in the opener.