More NBA News ». More NBA Rumors ». View all NBA Sites. More MLB News ». More MLB Rumors ». View all MLB Sites. More NHL News ». More Puck Prose News ». View all NHL Sites. Mat Latos likes to talk, and that's the primary reason we know of his dislike for San Francisco.
It all began back in , when the Padres were in first place for days of the season, until the Giants came from behind to take the division away. The Giants had made a few trades and August waiver claims, and this was all very upsetting to Latos :.
The only way I could honestly put it is, we could be like the Giants and go and change our whole lineup, put guys with ' San Francisco Giants ' across their jerseys.
We didn't. But why this was a problem was a little strange -- teams rarely look in October like they did in April, and the Giants were no different. For that matter, neither were the Padres: San Diego traded for Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick , and if not for Tejada's resurgence with the Padres, they would have been further back than two games at the time of this interview.
The Giants did not approve. Cody Ross:. It's very rare for an organization to say, 'We don't need any improvements. We're as good as we're going to be. This is the point where we should mention the Giants acquired Ross on a waiver claim in part to keep him away from the Padres -- when the Marlins were happy to just let him go for nothing, the Giants gladly took him for themselves.
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