Comments on: Bay By The Bay http://www.baycityball.com/2009/10/12/bay-by-the-bay/ Giants Baseball With a Side of STATS Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:00:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: daveinexile http://www.baycityball.com/2009/10/12/bay-by-the-bay/comment-page-1/#comment-4510 daveinexile Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:26:21 +0000 http://www.baycityball.com/?p=4924#comment-4510 If this team is rolling the dice on an over 30 year old big name free agent, not named Holiday, I want Figgens. Offering him an over paid 2-3 year contract, similar to the Dodgers did with Furcal, and set Figgens in our leadoff spot. Pull Lewis out of the dog house (spank Bochy along the way) and odds are good Sandoval comes up with at least one runner on base. Dig up another decent OBP guy ( Hey I can dream one of the Vets has a bounce back year) and place him in front of Sandoval and get the team a run of two. With the kind of pitching and defense the 2010 squad should have getting the first run on the board truly tilts the game in the Giants’ favor. If this team is rolling the dice on an over 30 year old big name free agent, not named Holiday, I want Figgens. Offering him an over paid 2-3 year contract, similar to the Dodgers did with Furcal, and set Figgens in our leadoff spot. Pull Lewis out of the dog house (spank Bochy along the way) and odds are good Sandoval comes up with at least one runner on base.

Dig up another decent OBP guy ( Hey I can dream one of the Vets has a bounce back year) and place him in front of Sandoval and get the team a run of two. With the kind of pitching and defense the 2010 squad should have getting the first run on the board truly tilts the game in the Giants’ favor.

]]> By: campanari http://www.baycityball.com/2009/10/12/bay-by-the-bay/comment-page-1/#comment-4506 campanari Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:34:38 +0000 http://www.baycityball.com/?p=4924#comment-4506 I think that this is--as usual--absolutely right. Besides, for us to get a 30+ player in high demand, one who knows that the advancing years will probably make this his last big pay day, we will have to give him what is effectively an insurance policy, a long-term contract, as well as a lucrative one. But we need roster flexibility as well as a bat. On these grounds as well as the deficiencies in his fielding, it makes little sense to bemoan our being hobbled by Zito's and Rowand's contracts, as many of our fellow McC posters do, and yet to crave Bay. I think that this is–as usual–absolutely right. Besides, for us to get a 30+ player in high demand, one who knows that the advancing years will probably make this his last big pay day, we will have to give him what is effectively an insurance policy, a long-term contract, as well as a lucrative one. But we need roster flexibility as well as a bat. On these grounds as well as the deficiencies in his fielding, it makes little sense to bemoan our being hobbled by Zito’s and Rowand’s contracts, as many of our fellow McC posters do, and yet to crave Bay.

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