Drinos 9, Dadgers zip

Peavy looked masterful. Giles and A Gon and E Gon are raking.

Query our boy Kouzmanoff?

He'll come around.

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In other news, I noted on Pablo DePodesta's blog that highly touted 2007 Dominican signee Jonathan Galvez is still playing with the DSL Padres. This point is interesting because until this season Jonathan Galvez was named Jhonaton Spraud.

I have no problem with a player changing his name (though I liked the name Jhonaton) but I hope the name change didn't come with an extra few years of age, as has been known to happen with other Latin players.

But setting that point aside for the moment, looking over the Padres' minor league rosters on madfriars.com and firstinning.com I am enthused with all the starting outfields at every level of our system.

Here is who the Drinos started in the OF last night at each level:

DSL Padres: LF - Cesar Sosa, CF - Rymer Liriano, RF - Carlos Garcia
Fort Wayne: LF - Yefri Carvajal, CF - Robert Perry, RF - Shane Buschini
Lake Elsinore: LF - Javis Diaz, CF - Cedric Hunter, RF - Kellen Kulbacki
San Antonio: LF - Chad Huffman, CF - Drew Macias, RF - Michael Baxter
Portland: LF - Chase Headley, CF - Will Venable, RF - Vince Sinisi
San Diego: LF - Paul McAnulty, CF - Jody Gerut, RF - Brian Giles

First of all, what a pack of beasts.

And second, let's imagine some possibilities. You have Headley and Huffman who could probably hit for the big league team right now. Then one notch down you have Venable who came to baseball late and may still be mastering his skills. He's close as it is. Then you have a kind of pupu platter of guys who likely won't make it but all have talent: Sinisi is one of those AAA/AAAA guys who could come up and fill in spots in the bigs if needed; Baxter is a 23-year old out of Vandy, hitting about .280 right now; Drew Macias is a former 35th round pick who hit .280 in over 100 ABs in Portland last season; Javis Diaz is a 23-year old Dominican with good speed; Buschini is a big kid out of USD; Robert Perry is a left-handed bat out of Long Beach St.

But then you have four more potential beasts: Liriano, Carvajal, Hunter and Kulbacki. Imagine a starting outfield in 2012 of Carvajal, Hunter and Kulbacki. With Liriano raking in AAA. That probably won't happen but my point is that with all these bats the Drinos have improved their chances of stocking their outfield with a home grown beast or two in the near future.

And this doesn't even count the guys heading to Peoria and Eugene in the next few weeks. This includes the likes of Blake Tekotte and Jaff Decker. Not to mention the next crop of Dominicans and Venezuelans and Mexicans and Colombians the Drinos sign on international signing day.