Solid pitching and mediocre hitting is what seems to define the San Diego Padres. No Padre has hit more then 25 homeruns in a season in the past two years depite the team walking away with two division titles. As this Padres preseason preview discusses in more detail, 2007 will be more of the same.
There’s no doubt the Padres have a solid, it old, rotation. Adding Greg Maddux was huge but a healthy and more consistent Jake Peavy would go a long way towards the Padres winning a third straight NL West title.