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The Padres finished with a flurry in 2009, going 37-25 over their last 62 games, which ranked fifth among Major League teams over that very same stretch of games.

Minor league hitting instructor Max Venable, a former Major League Baseball player living in San Rafael, appears to have survived the San Diego Padres management shuffle.

Older San Diego clubs that failed to make the playoffs in 2007 and 2008 gave way to a younger cast of players in the second half of 2009.

Another year, another manager for the Missions. The San Diego Padres announced Tuesday that Doug Dascenzo, who skippered Class A Fort Wayne to the Midwest League championship last season, will be San Antonio's field boss in 2010.

Do the Padres see Tony Gwynn, Jr. as an everyday center fielder or a fourth outfielder? If they're leaning to the latter, I think it's too soon to give him that label just because the Brewers did.

The youth movement continued in San Diego in 2009, and there were a few reasons for Padres fans to truly believe things are moving in the right direction.

The General Manager Meetings open up today in Chicago and finish up Wednesday. Free agents cannot negotiate with other teams until Nov.

SAN DIEGO a ' Jed Hoyer's first order of business as Padres general manager appears to be overhauling the scouting and player development end of the operation.

I only saw rookie outfielder Luis Durango for two weeks at the end of the 2008 season at Single-A Lake Elsinore.

There is hope in San Diego, something that wasn't apparent a year ago at this time, on the heels of a 99-loss season.

It's always amateur hour in San Diego, from Fire Sales to Roseanne Barr's crotch-grabbing national anthem to owner John Moores' extramarital affair and subsequent ugly divorce turning beautiful Petco Park into a tawdry parlor housing a cheap team.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

By Michael Stetz Union-Tribune Columnist 2:00 a.m. September 27, 2009 This was no big shock: At the Park at the Park, where Padres' road games are televised on a huge screen, I counted about a dozen people watching the Padres play the Colorado Rockies last Wednesday.

University of Akron starting quarterback Chris Jacquemain has been dismissed from the team for undisclosed reasons, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Kevin Correia hurled his first career shutout to lead San Diego to a 4-0 win over the Diamondbacks in a battle for the National League West Division basement.

Will Venable homered and tied a career high by driving in four runs in the San Diego Padres' 6-3 win over Colorado on Wednesday night that snapped the Rockies' eight-game home winning streak.

Padres end Rockies' eight-game home winning streak Eds: APNewsNow. Padres 6, Rockies 3. AP Photo CODZ106, CODZ107, CODZ102 By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER Will Venable homered and tied a career high by driving in four runs in the San Diego Padres' 6-3 win over Colorado on Wednesday night that snapped the Rockies' eight-game home winning ...

San Diego right fielder Edgar Gonzalez left Tuesday's game in the seventh inning with a partial dislocation of his left shoulder after attempting to catch Clint Barmes' fly ball.

San Diego right fielder Edgar Gonzalez left the Padres' game at Colorado on Tuesday night with an apparent injury to his left wrist after diving for Clint Barmes' inside-the-park homer in the seventh inning.

Spoiler. It's a term that's overused this time of year, when a team playing out the string faces a contender.