Still not much news on the Padre front today. Andruw Jones is apparently going to sign with the Dodgers for an insane 36.2 million 2-year contract. Andruw’s numbers took a huge drop off in his contract year, last year and batted only .222 with 26 homers and 94 RBI’s while striking out 25% of the time. Leave it to the Dodgers to over spend like always. The Rule V draft is today and the Padres should be active like they are every year. Sandy said in the UT that they expect to address the bullpen possibly. The Rule V draft has brought us players like Kevin Cameron (06), Seth Etherton (05), Rich Thompson (03), Buddy Hernandez (02), Ryan Baerlocher (01) and Donaldo Mendez (00), so as you can see it’s hit or miss. There is a trend of taking relief pitchers though as 4 of the 6 are relievers. The UT is also reporting that we offered multi-year contracts to Kosuke Fukudome and Mike Cameron, so we’ll see where that takes us.
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