Feeble start

The San Diego Padres are playing another feeble season so far. Their play is really surprising considering San Diego won back to back National League West division titles and that even when they finished third last season the club was 15 games above .500.

So what has gone wrong for the Padres? The problem appears to be two fold. First, the bullpen is not keeping the Padres in games. For a team with the second most quality starts in the National League, there is an awful lack of saves. Starters Jake Peavey, Greg Maddux, Randy Wolf, and Josh Banks are more than proving their worth as a starting rotation. Unfortunately, the bullpen, apart from Heath Bell and Mike Adams, has struggled to keep the Padres in the lead. They have not been horrible, just not good enough to make the Padres fans at Petco Park feel safe going into the late innings with a lead.

The aspect of San Diego that has been awful has been the offense. The only guys producing any kind of spark are first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and right fielder Brian Giles. Gonzalez has been having a career year in terms of home runs and RBIs so far. It is just a shame it comes in a year when the Padres have been struggling so much. Giles has been hitting the ball well, but his power of his youth has passed him by.

The Padres have sunk to the just about the worst offenses in the National League, if not all of Major League Baseball. There really is not another MLB team that struggles across the board in every statistical category like the Padres. San Diego was hoping third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff would make the jump to feared slugger, but instead his wild swing has resulted in nearly as many strike outs as hits.

MLB experts thought the club was going to have a tough year this season, but not this tough. Right now the only reason to get Padres tickets to Petco Park is to enjoy the game of baseball in San Diego’s perfect weather and to watch Adrian Gonzalez as he becomes a star.

He is the only Padres who has a chance to go to the MLB All Star game, and with the way this season is going that game is going to be the only way a Padres can be seen before a national audience. The World Series is just too far off at this point.

San Diego sports fans should just sit back and relax at Petco Park as they wait for the Chargers season to begin.