GIF: Broken wrist (butt slap) 60-day DL
From tonight’s ongoing game against the Dodgers: Amazing.
Giants set final 25-man roster in a flurry of moves
Today has felt like one of those days where four million individual things were happening with the Giants. Here’s a few key points. 1. Brandon Belt makes the roster Probably one of the more surprising things about the final roster was that, well, Brandon Belt was on it. For now, it’s looking like the Giants are going to shift Aubrey… Read more →
Cardinals, in an effort to score runs, sign Beltran
It’s sort of funny, you know. I thought the Giants ought to go after a first baseman that had been highly productive in the past after winning the World Series in 2010, rather than re-signing Aubrey Huff, who was likely to decline and cost more. You know, someone like Carlos Pena. Or Lance Berkman. Someone that would fit in nicely… Read more →
Friday link jumble
I really don’t want to talk about this team right now. When Henry Sosa – on three days rest – shuts you down, well, that’s not a very good sign. If the Giants offense were a person, they would probably be written up somewhere in the Darwin Awards. I think the entry would go something like this: the Giants come… Read more →
Heatmapping Aubrey Huff
(H/T: to Phylan for the idea). Click the image to embiggen. Lots of red squares in 2011. This is probably the longest Huff has struggled since his 2001 campaign. Huff actually broke into the league in 2000 (not included in the heatmap) and 2001 was his first season that he started the year in the majors. It was a tough… Read more →
Limited DeRosa plays a lot of positions
This is old news at this point, but let me get this all straight. So the Giants 1) have one of the worst offenses in all of Major League Baseball. (Since 2007, they’ve been basically the very worst.) They 2) have one of the worst performing first baseman in all of Major League Baseball in Aubrey Huff, owed roughly $15… Read more →
Giants don’t get into bullpens early or often enough
Last week, the Giants acquired Carlos Beltran for their very best pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler, and promptly went on to beat the Phillies to complete a winning series of two out of three. A few people wondered if it was time to consider the possibility that they could catch the Phillies for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. They then went… Read more →
Letters to Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy
In the exquisite film The Shawshank Redemption, “Andy” Dufresne (Tim Robbins) wrote a letter per day to the State, requesting that they fund his library project. Eventually, it worked. Sadly, I bet some Giants fan out there has a desire for Brandon Belt to play first base over Aubrey Huff for the San Francisco Giants. I bet that desire is… Read more →
Huff and Rowand aren’t so different
I love Cots Baseball Contracts. It’s a great place to get almost all of the details about any teams payroll. As I learned today, it’s also a place to go if you’re seeking to get bummed out. Looking at the Giants’ current commitments, you will find two players that I’d like to focus on for the purposes of this post…. Read more →
Giants acquire league-average hitting middle infielder
The Giants grabbed slappy slapper Jeff Keppinger from the Houston Astros for minor league right-handed pitchers Henry Sosa and Jason Stoffel. First, let’s discuss what they gave up. —- We’ve begun working on a mid-season top-15 prospect list here at Bay City Ball, and neither Stoffel or Sosa landed in my top 15. Stoffel is a 22-year-old reliever that has… Read more →