With the deluge of Zito-centric news lately, I think I should change this blog’s name to “Zito City Ball” or something. Ugh.
It’s official, the Giants have the most expensive middle reliever, ever, in the history of baseball.
From the Chronicle:
The man who leads the majors in starts the past eight seasons will miss his turn in [...]
It can’t be stressed enough. It just can’t. Barry Zito is probably my least favorite topic to think about, discuss, or devote any brain power to. On one hand, I feel bad for watching a once talented pitcher dissolve in front of our very eyes. It’s a metamorphosis none of us thought would happen this [...]
Q: Your young phenom ace has throw 109 pitches through 6 innings of dominant baseball. The opposing pitcher has matched him pitch-for-pitch but in the top of the 7th, your team gets lucky, and pops a solo home run from your struggling third baseman. You’ve got the 1-0 lead heading into the bottom of the [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I’ve decided to change the look of Bay City Ball just a little. What you’re looking at is the new theme that I’m going to be using. This is the fourth incarnation of the site. It’s a little more simple and basic and hopefully easier to read. Everything isn’t running completely the way I’d like [...]
The Giants’ offense was supposed to be punch-less this year and for the most part is has been. Let’s take a quick look at how the offense has performed so far, courtesy of The Hardball Times team statistics page.
R/G OPS GB% LD% BABIP
SF 3.15 .655 47% [...]
The online Giants community has been perkin’ this past weekend. The team won a series against the Cardinals, which featured more Lincecum goodness with a side of Bowker power, and made a roster move that has some scratching their heads and others going “meh”.
Let’s talk about the roster move that took place. The Giants have [...]
I’m in between some ideas right now, so new content will be coming shortly, but I wanted to share some links from fellow SFGs bloggers that I’ve been reading lately. All of these links get the BCB Stamp of Approval and they should be a staple for anyone who loves to torture themselves by watching [...]
To borrow a page from Real Time with Bill Maher, I’ve decided to enact some ‘New Rules’, Giants style.
New Rule, for the love of god stop playing Rich Aurilia. I don’t care if he has great career numbers against Randy Johnson, he looks completely done and after last season, who could argue the opposite? Aurilia [...]
Ladies and gentleman, John Bowker.
It’s tough to overshadow a dominant Tim Lincecum start — 11 punch outs over 6, we’ll go into more detail later — but John Bowker has made quite a name for himself in just two games. The Chronicle noted this morning that Bowker has done something that Giants’ legends — Bobby [...]
This game was the blueprint for winning Giants baseball in 2008 — something that we probably won’t experience much of. With the anemic offense, the team has to pitch well and play defense. This is exactly what happened in last night’s 1-0 win over the San Diego Padres. Let’s check out the “Blueprint” and see [...]
