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Minor Moves; Giants Can’t Score; Romo Pitches

We’ve barely entered the month of May for Giants baseball and I’m finding that more and more my gaze is turning towards minor league boxscores. I’m still enjoying the MLB team with Pablo Sandoval, Tim Lincecum, (good) Randy Johnson, and some others but with the Dodgers hot start and the Giants offense still looking like [...]

That’s All She Wrote

The Giants’ season is over.
Whew.
I think we’ll all look back at the ‘08 Giants as a team in transition. We were bad, but we weren’t that bad. Well, not 100-loss-bad like many of us expected. The Giants finished the year in 4th place in the National League West with a record of 72-90. That’s not [...]

Prospectin’

John Sickels of Minor League Ball has posted his top-20 list for the Giants. You can find the list here.
Here’s how Sickels ranked the top-20 in the Giants’ farm system:

Angel Villalona, 3B, Grade B+
Henry Sosa, RHP, Grade B
Tim Alderson, RHP, Grade B
Madison Bumgarner, LHP, Grade B- (lack of breaking ball is a caution flag for [...]

All I Want for Christmas is Some Good Prospects

Baseball America has just recently released their Top-10 Prospects list for the Giants. You can find it here.
Here’s what the list looks like:
1. Angel Villalona, 3b
2. Tim Alderson, rhp
3. Madison Bumgarner, lhp
4. Nate Schierholtz, of
5. Henry Sosa, rhp
6. Nick Noonan, 2b/ss
7. Eugenio Velez, of/2b
8. Wendell Fairley, of
9. John Bowker, of
10. Emmanuel Burriss, ss
It’s no shock [...]