The Rule 5 might not be the most exciting draft, most will pick the June amateur draft, but it nicely breaks up the traditional drought of much needed baseball news in the winter off-months. The basic rule of the Rule 5 is that whoever your team drafts, they must keep them on their starting roster for an entire year or… Read more →
Nothing like arbitration news! to spice up the monotony of winter baseball. The Giants have recently made their decisions on who’s getting arbitration and who isn’t, from SFGiants.com: The Giants announced late Saturday night that they offered salary arbitration to third baseman Pedro Feliz, although this hardly assured that the free agent would return to the club in 2008. Not… Read more →
The hosting company that hosts Bay City Ball is undergoing some server maintenance late tonight. The scheduled outage is for over 8 hours, but you never know with these sort of things. Hopefully the site will be back up by mid-to-late Saturday and functioning fine. So, don’t be alarmed if you can’t reach the site for up to a day… Read more →
The Giants last place finish in 2007 not only secured their 5th overall pick in the amateur draft in June but also for the Rule 5 Draft this December. The Rule 5 Draft is a little more popular in years past because some teams have found hidden gems in the draft. Probably the most well known Rule 5 selection of… Read more →
Getting back to the baseball world after a very-nice Thanksgiving has made me a little sluggish. No, it’s not just all that turkey I ate. The holiday break was fantastic and refreshing but there just isn’t much baseball news happening lately and the current dialog among Giants’ fans seems to hinge around the same conversations, over and over. I know… Read more →
The 2008 bullpen takes form a little more with the 1-year deal to bring back Tyler Walker. Walker, who served as the Giants closer in 2005 after Armando Benitez went down with an injury, is back for ’08 on a 1-year $750K deal. Walker was traded to the Devil Rays in 2006 but he went down with an arm injury… Read more →
Not much to say, other than Barry Bonds has been indicted today on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. I might write more on it later but to be honest, I’ve been watching way too much ESPN today and I already feel burnt out on the topic. Regardless of my opinion of Barry, I can tell you the amount… Read more →
A quick blurb from GM Brian Sabean in a recent MLB.com article detailing the Omar Vizquel signing: “Third base is what we’re presently going to work on,” Sabean said. “I think that definitely has to be the first thing we try to address.” Sabean said that Feliz, who has averaged 21 home runs and 84 RBIs in the past four… Read more →
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports has announced that the Giants and Omar Vizquel are close to signing a 1 year $5.5M dollar deal. Under the rumored new deal, Omar would earn about $1.5M more from his 2007 salary after posting the worst OPS in the National League in ’07 (when sorting by 450 plate appearances, Omar and Marcus Giles are… Read more →
Welcome to the new look for Bay City Ball, this is essentially the third design that I’ve used for the website. I decided to switch over to a different design because the old design was starting to feel a little old and stale. I also like the way this design presents the content and I think it just looks better… Read more →