It appears that everyone’s premonitions regarding Mark Sweeney as the odd man out are materializing. In a San Jose Mercury article aptly titled ‘Sweeney unlikely to stay a Giant‘ we learn that Sweeney was not a part of a team meeting involving the veterans. The other rumor is that Sweeney was placed on waivers this week but no one claimed… Read more →
Lincecum officially to begin the season in AAA Fresno. Lincecum could easily have made it as a reliever on this team but the Giants want to keep him starting every 5th day. Depending on how the Giants view Sanchez, a very good chance exists that Lincecum could be moved into the rotation this season once injury strikes or when Russ… Read more →
Spring Training is winding down and so are the remaining roster spots. The team looks to be set in every position except for the final bench spot. The Giants must decide whom out of a trio of Mark Sweeney, Jason Ellison, and Lance Niekro to chose for that last spot. Ellison and Niekro are both out of options and Sweeney… Read more →
The Chron is reporting that the Giants will decide within a week whether or not to trade Armando Benitez. It almost seems that the Giants’ blogosphere has been trying to decide if trading Benitez is a good idea or not since he signed with the G-Men. Ineffectiveness coupled with his lack of attitude, well good attitude that is, has made… Read more →
The final installment of my slightly delayed series on how the Giants are shaping up heading into 2007 is finally here. Nothing like school getting in the way of baseball. The first person to ask me to define sociology terms gets a volume of Karl Marx’s Capital thrown at them. All four million pages of it. It’s easy to see… Read more →
First off the bat, the Giants sign Matt Cain to a 4 year deal worth 9 million dollars. This is deal is similar to the one that Lowry got last year. As I wrote earlier, Cain is a tremendous talent that could already be the best pitcher on the Giants staff. He should enter the season as the #2 starter… Read more →
We arrive at part 2 of our 3 part series dedicated to how the Giants are shaping up heading into the 2007 season. The first installment can be picked up here for those that missed it. The NL West this year looks to be jam packed with solid rotations. The Dodgers, Padres, and Arizona all have the potential to be… Read more →
Giants Spring Training camp officially kicks off with the arrival of pitchers and catchers. The biggest story of the day centers around one Barry Zito and his revamped pitching motion. Zito added 10lbs of muscle over the course of the offseason and tinkered with his pitching motion in a effort to gain lost velocity on his fastball. The new motion… Read more →
Recently I had been having a few troubles with my version of WordPress, the blogging software that powers BCB. Posts were randomly going private and removing themselves from the front page and a few other bizarre things were happening. I figured that I would just upgrade to the newest version of WordPress that came out not too long ago and… Read more →
The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is fast approaching. No, it’s not a mack truck but spring training thats driving towards us. Giants’ pitchers and catchers are set to report to camp and begin work on Thursday, February the 15th. Who will be the big surprises this spring? Will Tim Lincecum wow us all? How many fastballs… Read more →