Josh Byrnes outperforms his predecessor and still gets fired while Hoyer sits back, loses and takes no heat for it.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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Rizzo deal is what got him fired

poor Rick Hahn. who's he gonna trade with now?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Yeah for the life of me I couldn't figure out just WTF the Padres were thinking with the Rizzo deal other than the Padres GM owed Theo a favor or two for the whole "getting him into the upper echelons of baseball management" thing. I've heard a few people over the years sing the praises of Cashner, but I also distinctly remember about 5 years ago Steve Stone saying that Cashner projects to be a future closer because he simply can't stay healthy as a SP (and from there it was even a question if he could stay healthy as a reliever)

Here's a series of numbers.... tell me which one sticks out like a sore thumb: 54.1, 10.2, 46.1, 175.0, 76.1

Indeed, those are Cashner's IP over the last 5 seasons, and clearly last year's 175IP stands out as the exception to the rule.... however seeing as we're only just under 1/2way through the season and he's already got 76.1IP thanks to only missing appx 1 month with some sort of injury before coming back with 3 strong starts, welp, maybe things are looking up and the Padres will prove us wrong with the idea of trotting Cashner out there as a starter....

New Player Note Mon, Jun 23
Andrew Cashner was scratched from his start Monday against the Giants due to shoulder soreness.
Advice: Rumors suggested Sunday that a trade might be in the works given the Padres' recent front office change, but there was never any substance to them. CBS Sports' Jon Heyman says Cashner's right shoulder is "a little sore" and the Padres want to play it safe. Odrisamer Despaigne will start in his place versus San Francisco.

....well, shit. At least they're playing it safe, right? That always works out well with frequently/mostly injured pitchers.

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Meanwhile, the Padres keep on trotting out Yonder Alonso at 1B hoping that he'll eventually figure out how to hit 20+ HR in a season and they're sorely lacking a cornerstone type offensive player who could give you at least .275/25/85+, if not that vaunted .275/30/100 that they've been missing since Adrian Gonzalez.... and Rizzo certainly isn't that! He shit the bed for them in 2011! They did well to literally Cash out that bum!

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The Cubs should offer them Vogelbach and a couple C tier pitching prospects for Cashner.

Low risk, high reward.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Apparently Jason McLeod is on the short list to be the new GM for the Padres.

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