[Terry D]

Mark Wasinger was a native of Monterey, California. The Padres drafted him in the third round in 1982 out of Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va. Wasinger performed well in the minors, stopping at Reno, Beaumont, and Las Vegas; he had a good OBP and hit enough doubles to rank well in slugging percentage. Wasinger was initially a second baseman, adding third base in 1985. The Padres brought him up in midseason '86 but sent him back down after he played just three games and went hitless in 9 AB. In April, 1987, the Padres traded Wasinger to San Francisco. He spent much of that season with the Giants and got another brief cup the following year, but then the Giants traded him to the Indians and he never got back to the major leagues. This newspaper photo is the first and so far only image I have seen of Wasinger as a Padre.