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Pads 30th-rounder knocking on the door?
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08:25 AM ET 06.18 | Thirtieth-round draft picks don't generally have long shelf lives in baseball, where long lines of prospects are quick to get lost in the shuffle. Justin Miller, the Padres' 30th-round pick in the 2011 draft, is making waves. The 23-year-old out of Southeastern Oklahoma State went 4-for-4 Saturday night to raise his batting average to .396 in the 26 games he's played for Single-A Lake Elsinore. Over his first 104 games at the lowest four levels of the Padres farm system, Miller has hit .336 with 26 doubles, five triples and four homers with 49 RBI and 61 runs scored in 375 at-bats. "He's an over-achieving player with a nice swing," Padres director of player development Randy Smith said recently in describing the 5-foot-9, 190-pound Miller.
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It is a nice story and I hope the kid makes it. But he is already 23 and in their lowest level and he is hitting college like pitching. The further you go up the ball starts moving a lot more and the question all of the scouts ask can he hit a curve ball.
toad
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"He's an over-achieving player with a nice swing,"
Well this statement should make him feel all warm and fuzzy....
Lex-LOU-thor
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<to the tune of Hee-Haw's - where oh where, are you tonight?>
Where oh Where, Have my Cards gone?
They were doing so well some time ago?
The releivers have returned to blowing the game,
The starters have a lead, and PPfffft it is gone.....
Lex-LOU-thor
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Looky here - no Yankmee, Botox or Bryce Harper articles... The Apocalypse has started....
Lex-LOU-thor
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Morning Lou.
clemtheslowson
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Morning Clem.... Good weekend?
Lex-LOU-thor
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Very enjoyable, thanks.
You?
clemtheslowson
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Didn't get done what I wanted to get done - but pleasant none the less. Wanted to get some wood working done - but the friend of mine who's in the hospital; his wife needed some help doing some shopping for the coffee shop at the church - so we did that for her. Then had to give a blind gal a ride to church saturday evening. The nice part was yesterday - spent most of the day relaxing in the very agreeable 80 weather on our back porch. That part was very enjoyable.
Lex-LOU-thor
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Why has it taken the Padres organization so long to move in their outfield fence?
THE BISHOP!
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"If they shorten it; the HRs will come".....
Lex-LOU-thor
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Because it's the Padres organization?
clemtheslowson
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Morning Clem and Lou.
SoxFan15
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I see the mods finally caught up with our Friday conversations.
SoxFan15
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Hey Gary...
Lex-LOU-thor
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Then they'd have more room for more empty seats.
SoxFan15
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Our friend Harper is on the Phillies thread.
SoxFan15
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You are the one that was Gary the Sox fan - right? ;-}
Lex-LOU-thor
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Let's not get that morass started again!?
Lex-LOU-thor
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Yes, I am incognito to avoid that cyber stalker
SoxFan15
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Oh, How is cognito then?
Lex-LOU-thor
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