Friar Watch

The Padres offense has been on fire lately so with Woody Williams going for the Astros tonight we can count on a return to form of a lousy pitcher shutting us down for 7 innings. Fortunately we have Peavy going for us tonight and he’s been dominant lately. Prediction: Padres win 2-0.

Over at Gaslamp Ball, Phantom takes a look at the Padre catching situation. I didn’t realize all our guys are free agents. I say resign Bard to a 3 year deal, re-sign LaForest for one year, let Barrett go and maybe sign Ausmus if he’s cheap. It would be nice to have one good defensive catcher on the roster.

There’s some discussion in the Ducksnorts comments about what’s wrong with Adrian Gonzalez. It’s been a disappointing year for A Gon but I’m not going to write him off yet. He’s got a real nice swing and has shown the ability to make adjustments in the past. He says he just got into some really bad habits earlier in the year and has had a hard time getting out of it.

I was going to write something about the Astros but I can’t really find anything interesting to say about them. They’re 8 games back in the Central and out of the Wild Card race and pretty much just playing out the string.