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AZ Luke Gregerson wishes he weren't the first winner of the Darrel Akerfelds Award as the Padres top relief pitcher of 2012. Then again, he is honored to be the first pitcher associated with the award honoring the bullpen coach who died last June
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Former Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy is returning to the state of Arizona as the manager of the Padres Triple-A affiliate in Tucson. Murphy will be assisted by pitching coach Bronswell Patrick and batting coach Tom Tornincasa. Murphy
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There were many things that Chris Young loved about Darrel Akerfelds , the longtime bullpen coach of the Padres who died last month of pancreatic cancer at the age of 50. But Akerfelds' most impressive gesture in friendship might have been his last,
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The Padres bullpen has certainly gone through major changes over the past year. The only links to the Padres bullpen at the All-Star break last July are veteran relievers Luke Gregerson and Joe Thatcher and bullpen catchers Justin Hatcher and Griffin
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Cameron Maybin was standing in front of a full length mirror in his hotel room in Phoenix earlier this week when he began practicing his swing...Then he looked at himself with his feet planted on the ground. What I noticed was how much my head was
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There's an old pilots' saying, usually said by old pilots: When you're careening out of control to earth and you've tried everything to keep from crashing, try something else...That's what the Colorado Rockies seem to be doing with a pitching
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When we first discussed his pancreatic cancer early in 2011, he laid out the odds...No one ever heard Akerfelds start a conversation about his plight...For 19 months, he threw everything he had at one of the worst types of cancer imaginable. At the
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It didn't take long for Kevin Youkilis to gain the respect of his new Chicago White Sox teammates...Sox's lineup for Monday's game against the Twins , with incumbent Gordon Beckham sliding down to the No...Beckham said he was on board with the lineup,
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Born Aug. 7, 1940, Chicago; married to Rosie; six children; residence, Mission Hills Education: University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, majored in architecture Career: After service in the Navy, worked for Chicago planning and architecture firm;
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Padres Posted by Larry Stone Chone Figgins , who is 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs off Padres starter Edinson Volquez , gets the start at third over Kyle Seager , who is hitless in his last 10 at-bats and had two errors Friday night.
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