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SAN DIEGO PADRES (12-11-1) vs. TEXAS RANGERS (9-12-4) Saturday, March 28, 2015 • 1:05 PM • Surprise Stadium • Surprise, AZ RHP Tyson Ross (2-0, 2.84) vs. RHP Jon Edwards (0-0, 2.08) Game 25 • Road Game 13 • Mighty 1090 AM PRIMAVERA PADRES: Today marks the 25th of 193 scheduled games for the Padres this sea- PROBABLE PITCHERS son...the club will play 31 Spring Training games, including 30 Cactus League contests (March 4 - April 2) followed by an exhibition game against the Mexico City Diablos Rojos at Petco Park Saturday, March 28 at Texas on April 4, before embarking on the 162-game regular season. RH Tyson Ross RH Jon Edwards • The exhibition with Mexico City will be the 14th in club history against a Mexican League RH Jose Valverde RH Kyuji Fujikawa opponent, but the first in more than 30 years, and the first played on American soil. RH Jandel Gustave RH Jamey Wright RH Nick Vincent RH Keone Kela FIRST GAME JAMES: Padres manager Buddy Black announced this morning that RHP James RH Neftali Feliz Shields will take the mound for the Friars against the Dodgers on April 6 in Los Angeles…for LH Alex Claudio Shields, it will be his seventh career Opening Day start, tied for the fourth-most among RH Roman Mendez active players, trailing only CC Sabathia (11), Mark Buehrle (9) and Felix Hernandez (will RH Tanner Scheppers make his eighth this season). • Shields will be the 28th different pitcher to make an Opening Day start for the Padres. Sunday, March 29 vs. Seattle • “Big Game James” leads all Major League pitchers with 1,785.2 innings pitched since the RH Andrew Cashner LH J.A. Happ 2007 season and is the only MLB pitcher to have thrown 225.0 or more innings in each of the last four seasons. Monday, March 30 at Cincinnati TBA RH Anthony DeSclafani TODAY’S TRANSACTIONS: The Padres announced this morning that they have reassigned C Cody Decker, INF/OF Jake Goebbert and INF Brett Wallace to minor league camp…with today’s PADRES RECORD moves, the Padres now have 40 players in Major League camp. Overall ................................................................12-11-1 IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME: In 12 home games at Peoria Sports Complex this spring, Peoria Sports Complex............................................ 7-7 the Padres have drawn 88,227 fans in attendance, already surpassing their mark of 76,096 in 14 home games last season (excluding the exhibition games played at the University of San Home Record ......................................................... 7-5 Diego)…the Friars have a total attendance of 195,290 this spring, surpassing the 183,427 they Road Record .......................................................... 5-6-1 drew in 28 games in Arizona last spring. Day .......................................................................... 11-9-1 Night ....................................................................... 1-2 MORE LIKE TYSON ‘BOSS’: Tyson Ross will take the mound for the Padres this afternoon in vs. NL ...................................................................... 7-5-1 what will be his fifth start and appearance of the 2015 Cactus League season…earned the win in vs. AL ...................................................................... 5-6 his last outing on 3/23 vs. Chicago-AL after he pitched 5.0 innings of shutout baseball, allowing Current Streak ......................................................... W1 one hit with five strikeouts against one walk…did not factor into the decision in his third outing on 3/18 at Colorado after he allowed three runs on three hits with five strikeouts against one walk over 3.2 innings of work. PADRES ATTENDANCE • Earned the win in his second start of the spring on 3/13 at Los Angeles-AL after he tossed Home Total .............................................................. 88,227 3.0 innings of one-run baseball, allowing two hits with a strikeout and two walks…did not Home Average ......................................................... 7,352 factor into the decision in his Cactus League debut on 3/8 vs. Colorado after he pitching 1.0 inning, allowing two runs (both unearned) on two hits with a strikeout and two walks. Road Total .............................................................. 107,063 • A National League All-Star in 2014, the 6-5, 215 pound right-hander posted a 13-14 record Road Average .......................................................... 8,922 with a 2.81 ERA (61 ER, 195.2 IP) in 31 starts last season. Total ........................................................................ 195,290 • Ross put up the 11th-best ERA and opponents batting average (.230) in Padres franchise Average ................................................................... 8,137 history while his strikeout total (195) was seventh-best…his 8.97 strikeouts per nine innings ranked eighth in the National League. PADRES UPCOMING SCHEDULE SWINGING FRIARS: Through 24 games this spring, the Padres, as a team, have averaged Sunday, March 29 ..................................... vs. Mariners 10.08 hits per game (242 H/24 G) and 5.00 runs per game (120 R/24 G)…the Padres’ hit rate Monday, March 30 .................................... at Reds this spring ranks fifth in the Majors and third in the National League while their runs rate ranks 10th in the Majors and fifth in the National League. Tuesday, March 31 ................................... vs. Royals • The Padres have collected 10 or more hits in 15 of the team’s 24 games this spring, includ- Wednesday, April 1 ................................... vs. White Sox ing in six of their last seven contests…over the last seven games, the Friars have tallied a total of 85 hits for an average of 12.1 per game. STARTS BY POSITION MAX POWER: Through 24 spring training contests, the Padres as a team have hit .287/.341/.448 Pos. Players (242-for-842), the third-best batting average and on-base percentage and fourth-best slugging C: Norris (14), Nieves (8), Federowicz, Hedges percentage in the National League…the Friars have also belted 26 home runs, the fifth-best mark 1B: Alonso (14), Solarte (4), Medica (3), Quentin (2), in the Majors behind the Dodgers (40), Cubs (36), Mets (31) and Orioles (27). Wallace • In comparison, San Diego belted 27 home runs in 30 spring training games in 2014. 2B: Gyorko (16), Spangenberg (4), Solarte (3), Pena SS: Amarista (12), Barmes (12) CHA-CHA-CHANGES: During the offseason, the Padres made several transactions, including 3B: Middlebrooks (16), Solarte (7), Spangenberg eight trades involving a total of 32 players and four 40-man free-agent signings. LF: Upton (12), Almonte (3), Venable (3), • In a 24-hour window between December 18-19, the Padres made a total of 30 transactions Dickerson (2), Quentin (2), Liriano, Medica (trades, signings, DFA’s, minor league moves, etc.) which, since data became available, is CF: Maybin (12), Myers (11), Venable the most ever by a Major League club in a 24-hour window. RF: Kemp (13), Venable (7), Myers (3), Almonte, THE BUDDY SYSTEM: The 2015 season will be the ninth campaign at the helm for Padres DH: Quentin (7), Upton (2), Amarista, Goebbert, Kemp, manager Buddy Black, tied with Giants manager and former Padres skipper Bruce Bochy for the Maybin, Medica longest-tenured manager in the National League. • His clubs are 617-680 (.476) in his eight seasons with SD...the only other Major League STARTS BY BATTING ORDER manager to be at his current post longer than Black is Angels skipper Mike Scioscia (16). Pos. Players • Buddy is one of two people in Major League history with 100+ wins as a pitcher and 600+ 1: Myers (14), Maybin (9), Venable wins as a manager (121 as pitcher, 617 as manager), joining Hall of Famer Clark Griffith 2: Solarte (8), Maybin (4), Alonso (4), Amarista (3), (1,491 as manager, 236 as pitcher). Venable (3), Gyorko, Norris 3: Kemp (14), Venable (5), Upton (4), Quentin, Solarte PADRES PROSPECTUS: Eight of the Padres’ top 10 prospects, according to Baseball America, opened spring in Major League camp, including each of the top six...that list includes RHP Matt 4: Upton (10), Norris (6), Quentin (4), Gyorko (2), Wisler (1), INF Trea Turner (2), OF Hunter Renfroe (3), C Austin Hedges (4), INF Cory Kemp, Medica, Middlebrooks Spangenberg (5), OF Rymer Liriano (6), SS Jose Rondon (9) and RHP Casey Kelly (10). 5: Quentin (7), Middlebrooks (6), Alonso (4), Gyorko (2), • Of the Padres top-10 prospects accoring to Baseball America, one is still in big league Norris (2), Solarte (2), Medica, camp (Spangenberg) as INF Jose Rondon (3/6), INF Trea Turner (3/9), OF Hunter Renfroe 6: Middlebrooks (6), Alonso (4), Gyorko (4), Norris (3), (3/16), OF Rymer Liriano (3/18), RHP Matt Wisler (3/22), RHP Casey Kelly (3/22) and C Medica (2), Solarte (2), Barmes, Goebbert, Venable Austin Hedges (3/24), have been reassigned to minor league camp. 7: Gyorko (5), Amarista (4), Alonso (2), Middlebrooks (2), Solarte (2), Barmes, Dickerson, Liriano, Medica, Nieves PADRES ON THE RADIO: The Padres will have audio broadcast available for 27 of the scheduled Norris, Spangenberg, Venable, Wallace 31 games during Cactus League play...15 of the 27 games will be broadcast on either Mighty 1090 8: Barmes (8), Almonte (3), Amarista (3), Gyorko (2), (13) or ESPN 1700 (2) while the other 12 broadcasts can be found on Padres.com via webcast. Nieves (2), Norris (2), Spangenberg (2), Pena, Wallace • The Friars broadcast team will be Ted Leitner, Bob Scanlan and Jesse Agler. 9: Nieves (5), Amarista (3), Barmes (2), Spangenberg (2), Almonte, Dickerson, Federowicz, Hedges, PADRES ON THE TUBE: The Padres, FOX Sports San Diego and MLB Network will televise a Pitcher (7) total of 13 Spring Training games. • FOX Sports San Diego will televise on 3/8 vs. COL (also MLBN, LIVE), 3/14 vs. TEX (also RECENT TRANSACTIONS MLBN, LIVE), 3/16 vs. CHC (also MLBN, LIVE), 3/17 vs. MIL (SS), 3/20 vs. KC (also MLBN, delayed), 3/21 vs. ARI (also MLBN, delayed), 3/23 vs.