Steve Watkins
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"Stephen Douglas Watkins" is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Diego Padres in .

Watkins was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 16th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft and made his major league debut on August 21, 2004. In , he played in the Cleveland Indians organization and in the Washington Nationals organization in . In , with the Padres' Triple-A affiliate, the Portland Beavers, he went 2-5 with a 5.17 Earned run average/ERA and 56 strikeouts. In , he pitched for the Chinatrust Whales in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League.

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It's disappointing that faculty and community will have a grand total of an hour and 15 minutes with these candidates, and even then these forums are very structured.

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Last year, coming out of camp with Cleveland, it was kind of the same situation, and I just sat in [Class AAA] Buffalo the whole year and it just never happened for me. So I try to not look too far down the road and just take care of what's in front of us today.