A mixed bag of emotions.

A mixed up season.

That’s where I am at this hour covering, writing about, talking about the Padres.

The Swinging Friar is really the Swing & Miss Friars.

Losses pile up on losses.

The starting pitching seems to be regressing.

The hi paid batting order can be found at the bottom of every statistical category in MLB.

And no one seems upset.  Not Craig Stammen.  Nothing from the architect of all this AJ Preller.  An ownership leadership that seems to have taken an emotional step back from running the team, awaiting the sale of the franchise.

The players are silent, much like their bats.

The box score will show this bad slide is the result of these guys:

..Machado (.123)

..Bogaerts (.137)

..Merrill (.191)

..Sheets (.043)

..Cronenworth (.144)

..Laureano (.131)

..Fermin (.139)

..Duran (.080)

And up ahead, the schedule gets rough, and that’s hard to accept considering the Padres have wandered thru losing series to a rebuilding Nationals team, and now just got banged by the last place, under achieving Mets.

Look at your pocket schedule and see once they finish up with the Reds this week, they go away for a long time.  They play 16-of-19 away.  And still to come right around July 4th week, they get the red hot Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers at Petco Park.

Who knows where the Padres will be in the standings by then.  

We know where they are at this hour, way back of the Dodgers in the standings (8G). 

The downhill slide has them at (1-7) now.  That’s (4-13) more recently overall.  And at Petco Park (17-18) infront of all those sellouts. 

I guess you take whatever positives you can.  The Felix Fermin two 2R-HRs-wow.  The hustle catches in the outfield of Samod Taylor and the great throw from outfielder Jace Bowen.

But aside from that what is there to feel good about at this hour?  Not Manny Machado’s pronouncements ‘I’m not disappointed’….or ‘Media is hitting the panic button’…or ‘Too much Analytics in baseball’.  He’s getting lots of money.  And he’s not doing very much to earn it right now.

The heart and soul efforts of Michael King and Walker Buehler are commendable.  Randy Vasquez has regressed.  The rest of the rotation is fairly unreliable.  The calls to the bullpen seem more and more.  Even the ace closer Mason Miller has become an adventure.

It’s awful to feel this way, because it’s just early June, but it feels like it’s pretty late to think this roster makeup and the way the big money guys are playing, will get us to games in October.

This feels-looks awful right now.  A mixed bag of emotions about a mixed bag roster of talent, in what feels like a losing season.

Tell me I am wrong and I’ll listen

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