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Tweet: Orlando Cabrera to retire from baseball, he said in Colombia radio station. Thanks for memories! @Enrique_Rojas1 I’ll never forget you, O-Cab.
Wednesday Infographic: Things you already painfully know
This team might have had trouble hitting. Again, kind of like Otis’ Failure Cake post, this is based on offense only — relative to the league split for that position. sOPS+ was used because it’s readily available on Baseball-Reference. We’re also talking about cumulative production from each spot. Quick takeaways: * So, shortstop sure was terrible, huh? As good as… Read more →
Cy Youngs, MVPs and moving on
I think we’ve been trying to prepare you for the inevitable for a while now here at Bay City Ball: The Giants are not defending their title in 2011. It’s awful tough to do so when you don’t qualify for the postseason. (Not to mention, we’d been showing you the warning signs about their inability to score many (presently any)… Read more →
Orlando Cabrera’s contributions must be very intangible
“Cabrera, sure, he’s made some errors,” Bochy said. “But you’ve got an experienced guy out there. I know he’s dropped a couple of popups. I think he’s as shocked as anybody he didn’t catch the ball, and he made some nice plays today coming in.” Bruce Bochy, quoted in Hank Schulman’s recap: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/07/SP4G1L1FOD.DTL#ixzz1XKvKDrir Let me start by saying that I am… Read more →
Giants make statement against Houston Astros
The statement: phbbbbbttttghhhhttt Baseball is a game where anything can happen. The games — on a one by one basis — are little tiny pockets of chaos, but generally, over the long haul of the regular season, things balance out. The Giants losing a season series to the Astros isn’t impossible. After all, the thing is, it happened, but when… Read more →
The Cabrera Situation
Here’s a list of players on the Giants 25 man roster whom I’m pretty sure are worse hitters than Orlando Cabrera Chris Stewart Nate Schierholtz in a boot Jeremy Affeldt Madison Bumgarner Matt Cain Santiago Casilla Steve Edlefsen Tim Lincecum Javier Lopez Guillermo Mota Ramon Ramirez Leading off is a pretty important job. You get the most at-bats over the… Read more →
Giants do the impossible, score eight runs in a single game
While watching today’s game, I heard more than once the following factoid: “Today’s game marks the first time the Giants have scored more than six runs in a home game this year.” I heard Jon Miller say it on the radio. I heard Kruk and Kuip say it on the television. And yet, as crazy as that fact sounds, as… 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 →
Giants trade for Orlando Cabrera
And just like that, all our problems were solved. Still intent on shoring up their infield, the Giants obtained 15-year veteran Orlando Cabrera from the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night for Minor League outfielder Thomas Neal. Cabrera, 36, has played 83 games this season at second base for Cleveland, which has Asdrubal Cabrera at shortstop. But moving back to short,… Read more →