Adrian Gonzalez News

As you all know, the Red Sox front office drools over the idea of acquiring powerful first baseman, Adrian Gonzales.

But the Red Sox, the team with the most reported interest in Gonzalez, probably will need to offer major-league pieces to entice the Padres.

With all of the recent talk of the San Diego Padres dealing first baseman Adrian Gonzalez , I decided I'd discuss what would happen if Gonzalez actually were dealt.

More than any other hitter available on the free agent market, first baseman Adrian Gonzalez would be a perfect fit in the Mets lineup.A Due to salary limitations, San Diego will likely not be able to afford re-signing him when his contract ends after the end of the 2011 season.A Former Padre GM Kevin Towers speculates that Gonzalez will be traded.

Part of the motivation for moving Gonzalez is they have Kyle Blanks waiting in the wings, and Blanks can only play 1B.

After not moving Roy Halladay at the trade deadline, the Blue Jays may try again in the offseason.

Chris Ello of 619Sports.com writes today that the San Diego Padres sent out season ticket brochures without a single photo of star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, fueling rumors that perhaps the club is going to explore trading their most valuable commodity.

The San Diego Padres 2010 season ticket information is out and there's one person missing from all the pics in the brochure.

Jed Hoyer, the new general manager of the San Diego Padres, said all the right things during his introductory news conference yesterday, but he fell short of saying what Red Sox fans wanted to hear - that he would trade superstar Adrian Gonzalez to Boston.

JED HOYER won't have to worry too much about backlash from fans in San Diego in the coming months.

First base is a power position.A First basemen such as, Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, Adrian Gonzalez, Mark Teixeira, and many more are among the top home run hitters in the league.

With no American League Championship Series to attend to, the flame of the hot-stove league has been lit unseasonably early.

Will Adrian Gonzalez still be a Padre under new management? If Jed Hoyer is indeed to become the next Padres' general manager, who is he and what type of GM would he be? CBS Sports' baseball insider Scott Miller spent time with Hoyer recently in Anaheim.

Padres slugger Adrian Gonzalez will almost certainly be targeted by the Red Sox in the offseason.

What are the chances of selling high on Heath Bell early in the offseason? I feel like the Padres would be able to get a little bit more value out of him.

Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti stood on the field before Game 1 of the National League Championship Series and said he did not anticipate his team would change the way it does business in light of the separation between owner Frank McCourt and his wife Jamie .

FriarChat.com: Padres' Award Winners Padres correspondent Mark Polishuk analyzes the highs and lows of San Diego's season.

Padres' Kevin Kouzmanoff, who set an NL fielding record with a .990 percentage, hands over his glove to Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson .

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Before baseball pulled him in for life, before he could blow the $20,000 signing bonus the Padres gave him in 1982, Kevin Towers, the player, filled a bag with clothes and stowed away to Europe for a month.