Author: Dustin Palmateer

Eight Sleeper Prospects For 2018

Posted on by Dustin Palmateer

You know the names: Fernando Tatis Jr., Luis Urias, MacKenzie Gore, Michel Baez, Joey Lucchesi, Adrian Morejon, Cal Quantrill, Eric Lauer, Anderson Espinoza. They’re the top prospects in a much-ballyhooed Padres farm system, and, by now, their names roll off the tongue like members of your extended family. But away from the bright lights of […]

Trevor Hoffman in Context

Posted on by Dustin Palmateer

We can’t help but compare things: apples to apples, apples to oranges, Trevor Hoffman to Mariano Rivera. The Hoffman-to-Rivera comp is obvious, of course. They were both great closers with overlapping careers, and they met head on in the 1998 World Series; shoot, Hoffman and Rivera even had competing heavy metal songs as entrance music […]