Cody Ross: Mat Latos' Criticisms of Giants Are 'Asinine'

Filed under: Giants, Padres, NL West

San Diego Padres pitcher Mat Latos caused quite a stir this week when he criticized the rival Giants for their in-season offensive overhaul, accomplished largely by picking up cast-offs from other teams.

"Baseball works in funny ways," Latos told CBSSports.com. "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.

"We added two guys (Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick). We've been the same team all year. We haven't just gone and grabbed guys from other teams."

Among the Giants' midseason acquisitions are outfielders Pat Burrell, Jose Guillen and Cody Ross along with infielder Mike Fontenot, all of whom were acquired either via post-July 31 trades (Guillen and Fontentot), straight waiver claims (Ross) or in free agency (Burrell).

Ross wasn't too pleased with Latos' shot at the Giants.

 

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