This Team Makes Me Drink

Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna recently announced that he's been dealing with an "anxiety issue" and will miss some time as a result. "I really don't know how to explain it. I just feel anxious. I feel like I'm lost a little bit right now," Osuna said in an interview, "I'm just a little bit lost right now. " On a very slight level, I can  relate.  I obviously don't play Major League Baseball- I didn't even play in high school.  In fact, my baseball career ended when I was around 11. I was a genuinely terrible player. Like, -3 WAR bad. Skills-wise, I wasn't an offensively bad player by any means. In practice, I could make good contact with the ball, catch pop-ups and field grounders. Maybe my running tool wasn't the best (I'd probably grade myself as a 40 on a 20-80 scale for Little Leaguers), but I was able to do all the things any seemingly competent Little Leaguer could. Until gam...

MLB draft #szn is upon us. The Padres, for the first time since 2009, are drafting third overall. Having such a high draft position is somewhat of a rare situation for the Padres. Considering how much of the media and the causal fan consider the Padres to be one of the most consistently bad teams in baseball, they've only drafted in the top five- signifying the worst of the worst- six times since 1988. Over their last 30 draft picks in the first round, their average draft position has been 14.6, which is a pretty impressive achievement of baseball mediocrity. Of course, the Padres' track record with top 5 draft picks hasn't exactly been stellar. With the exception of Andy Benes ( who ranks 5th all-time in WAR among Padres pitchers ), all of their top 5 draft picks failed to make a significant impact at the major league level. For reference, their most recent third overall pick, Donovan Tate, is now a walk-on quarterback at the University of Arizona . The Padres are ...

If you haven't been paying attention to Padres baseball- you probably should. Which, I suppose, a fair amount of you are guilty of; they haven't exactly been playing the best baseball this season. The Padres are almost universally ranked at (or near) the bottom of every major power ranking , and they sit in the basement of the competitive NL West, after all. Well, time to get out from under the rock. The Padres have won five straight, and swept the Chicago Cubs- the reigning World Series champions. Watch that above video if you still don't believe me. Yeah, me too, Patrick. Me too.  (See what I did with the rock reference earlier? Somebody give me an award! If you were born before 1980 and reading this, that pink starfish looking character you can see above lives under a rock. Hope that clears things up.) Anyways, this "winning" thing probably isn't sustainable for the rest of the season. More than likely, the Padres will regress t...