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Tweet Let’s talk about the best thing you can talk about: Matt Cain and Buster Posey. The Giants lost in maddening fashion today, so let’s avoid that all together. In that loss, though, Matt Cain gave up an opposite-field home run, something he very seldom does. (More evidence can be found here.) In fact, it was only the second he’d… Read more →
Tweet The Diamondbacks have just called up Trevor Bauer, the first-round phenom from UCLA who fashioned his delivery after Tim Lincecum. Report: D-backs P Bauer to make ML debut Thur. http://t.co/iT2FEG6q June 24, 2012 10:46 pm via SI.comReplyRetweetFavorite @si_mlb SI MLB Given the D’backs’ proximity to the Giants — standings-wise, at 2.5 games back San Francisco (but with a better… Read more →
Please read Chris’s post from this morning before reading past the jump.
Tim Lincecum is now 2-6 with a 5.82 ERA. His walk rate has spiked to over five per nine innings. Thus, despite his strong strikeout rate, his strikeout to walk ratio has crashed below two. The Giants are now 2-9 in his starts, having given up 63 runs while scoring just 41, and his poor performance certainly isn’t going unnoticed…. Read more →
Dave Cameron wrote an interesting piece over at ESPN.com on the benefits that soft-tossing lefties like Barry Zito are enjoying in baseball’s new, less hitter-friendly era. Dave (Insider): Despite the fact that most of the focus has been on the downturn in home runs, however, that’s actually just a small part of the downturn in offense over the past decade…. Read more →
The Giants escaped Sunday’s game with two wins: one for the day and one for the series. Didn’t come easy though. A poor route by Angel Pagan led to a run that tied the ballgame. The Giants did finally get that run back in the 11th on a clean Hector Sanchez single to the two-man Brewers outfield. So the drama… Read more →
Here’s today’s Belt-less lineup: 1. Angel Pagan CF 2. Melky Cabrera LF 3. Pablo Sandoval 3B 4. Buster Posey C 5. Aubrey Huff 1B 6. Nate Schierholtz RF 7. Emmanuel Burriss 2B 8. Brandon Crawford SS 9. Ryan Vogelsong P There’s been a lot of talk about the hole in Brandon Belt’s swing. Supposedly, that hole is up and away for the young left-handed hitting (sometimes) first baseman. Funny thing,… Read more →
Today, on the all-important Jackie Robinson Day, Graham Womack of Baseball: Past and Present published his All-Time Dream Project, a project a couple of months in the making in which a group of over 600 baseball lovers came to their consensus on what a nine-player lineup of the greatest ballplayers of all time might look like, a team assembled if… Read more →
Goofy day. First, Facebook bought Instagram. They only paid a billi… Wait, they paid a billion? Oh. Manny Ramirez doing idiotic stuff like using the restroom behind the Green Monster during a pitching change is an example of Manny Being Manny. Today, when Barry Zito threw a four-hit shutout in Coors Field — in Coors Field — it was just… Read more →
You’ve heard “Pitchers and catchers report” roughly one billion times over the last couple of weeks. You won’t here. I don’t care about the other Giants catchers, at least unless we’re talking about their stable of catching prospects on the farm. Over at the SweetSpot, Chris provided his pick for the Giant we are most excited to see in 2012…. Read more →