By Chris Quick on May 7, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brandon crawford, farm system, madison bumgarner, offense, offense stinks, prospects, sergio romo, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on September 29, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bad, barry zito, farm system, good, pablo sandoval, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on January 15, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged farm system, minor league, prospects, ranking
By Chris Quick on December 16, 2007
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, [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged angel villalona, farm system, madison bumgarner, prospects, tim alderson