All Time Padres: Pitching Staff

This edition is going to highlight 5 man pitching rotation.

1. Jake Peavy
2. Kevin Brown
3. Andy Benes
4. Randy Jones
5. Ed Whitson/Eric Show (Share spot starts because of their awesome mustaches!)

All Time Padres Recap:
All Time Padres RF: Tony Gwynn
All Time Padres CF: Steve Finley
All Time Padres LF: Ted Williams
All Time Padres 3B: Ken Caminiti
All Time Padres SS: Gary Templeton
All Time Padres 2B: Bip Roberts
All Time Padres 1B: Adrian Gonzalez
All Time Padres C: Benny Santiago

All Time Padres: 3B

This is a unanimous decision. Mr Ken Caminiti is by far the best 3B in the history of the Padres. He beats the likes of Sean Bouroughs and even Gary Sheffield. We all know he won the NL MVP in '96 and was on the team which won the Western Division for the first time since '84.

I would like to share a little known story about Ken. In '96 the Pads were playing the Mets in Mexico City, Ken, dehydrated and sick had a reputation of playing through pain and it didn't stop him from playing in this game. He took two liters of IV solution to rehydrate and two "snickers" bars and got back into the game. He hit two homers en route to a 8-0 win over the Mets and this win put them in a tie with the Dodgers for first in the West. I have a suspicion that the "snickers" had a bit of steroids lodged in them. I call them "Snickeroids".

Another memory, he made a diving play on the third base line and thew the batter out from his backside!

Pictures of Ken Caminiti:

Ken Caminiti '98 Championship
Caminiti Swing
Colleague
Nice Dive at the Q

All Time Padres Recap:
All Time Padres RF: Tony Gwynn
All Time Padres CF: Steve Finley
All Time Padres LF: Ted Williams
All Time Padres 3B: Ken Caminiti

All-Time Padres Team: RF

So, this one isn't much of a debate. Clearly T-Gwynn wins this one in a landslide, but for the sake of argument (and because he was the Padres' first Hall of Famer), I'm going to say Dave Winfield ought to be the choice here.

Dave Winfield clocked 882 games in right field (1117 games as a Padre total - 3rd all time) for the Padres from 1973-1980. He hit .284 (10th all time), slugged .464 (7th all time), .821 OPS (9th all time), scored 599 runs (2nd all time), 1134 hits (3rd all time), 179 doubles (4th all time), 39 triples (3rd all time), 154 home runs (3rd all time), 626 RBI's (2nd all time), 463 walks (4th all time), and stole 133 bases (4th all time). He ranks in the top 10 in virtually all hitting categories as a Padre - and did it in only 8 seasons.

While with the Padres, Winfield won 2 Gold Gloves, was a 4-time All-Star, and was twice in the top 10 in MVP voting (10th and 3rd).

Tony Gwynn is the only Padre Winfield is consistently behind in any of these categories, and much of that can be attributed to Gwynn's 20 years with the club.

Winfield's career numbers are significantly higher than Gwynn's in many categories (notably HR's and RBI's).

All that said, Gwynn is still The Man. Sorry, Dave.