Bill Center, longtime sportswriter for U-T San Diego, is an employee of the Padres.
There is a debate going on in the SABRmetrics circle of baseball about pitching wins being the most useless statistic in the game.
My first thought . . . tell Greg Maddux that his 355 wins are meaningless.
But it is true that many pitchers pick up wins by being in the right place at the right time.
Case in point, Padres right-hander Craig Stammen, who picked up wins in back-to-back relief appearances Sunday and Tuesday to give him eight wins on the season.