Padres Aren't Done Yet

Things look pretty bleak, and I can't say that I have avoided the negativity (see last post), but the season is far from wrapped up. Thought the Pads sit dead last in almost every statistic, they still have one of the best rotations in the league. Jake Peavy is one of the top 5 pitchers in the league and he has Chris Young, Greg Maddux and Randy Wolf all pitching great behind him. Sean Estes looks like he could be coming back healthy and strong and you can't discount the fact that he could be fresh from two years off and ready to go. We aren't asking him to lead the rotation, we are asking him to be a number 5.

The Padres are already 9 games out of first place and 8 games below .500, but with the pitching staff that we have, if the bats get hot for a couple of weeks we could easily run off a huge streak. As cold as the bats were in April, they could get hot for a while and then just do ok for the another month and this team could be right back in the thick of things.

When a team has as good a pitching staff from top to bottom as the Padres do, they will never be out of it...at least not this early. If we turn those 2-1 losses into 4-2 wins (which isn't asking for much from the hitters) things could be sunny once again in San Diego.