Jake Peavy

It certainly insults me when you hear you can't go through a lineup three times.

You know, I don't know how many starts I made in my major league career, but if I didn't pitch three times, complete times through that lineup into the sixth, seventh, eighth inning, I didn't do my job.

And your rights is trying to be a number one starter in the big leagues.

Mark Burley, how many times, Mark Burley, you seem to go five innings?

No, sir.

Seven to nine.

And Freddie Garcia and Johnny Garland, Contreras, that's what delivered a championship to you guys.

You know, some clutch hitting, but that starting pitching and their depth was basically giving it to Dottel and Jinx.

Nowadays, you get these playoffs, you're trying to win five, six relievers because the starter is...

is being pulled because they're saying other guys are better than him.

Where it gets interesting for me, I understand the numbers, and I'm in the front office for the Padres.

I know your front office very well with playing with Chris Goetz and Josh Barfield, Will Venable, all former teammates that I still talk to to this day.

So,

It's just an interesting strategy when you start to see the numbers.

But what I do say is your number one, you know, and I know that we haven't seen our all-star Smith pitch like the way he should have.

But your front-line starters, they should be better than your middle-inning relievers, in my opinion, to go after that lineup a third and fourth time, especially over the length of the season.

You've got to ask a couple starters first.

not throw four or five relievers every night over the course of the season.

I think if you're building a team, it's a great point of what the Padres have done and how they've stayed relevant is pitching and defense out there.

They have not slugged, if you look at the numbers, in the last of the league, the last few years, but they find themselves in the playoffs every year.