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 [...]
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The Future
3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 SO, 0 HR
“He’s nasty,” Ramirez said. Told that Bumgarner’s only 19, Ramirez replied, “Unbelievable. He has a fastball and a curveball. He’s sneaky. He throws hard.”
San Jose is going to be a really fun team to watch this year.
Thursday Link Grab Bag
Bear with me, it’s another sloooooow Thursday afternoon. Thankfully, we’re just 16 days away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training. Mid-to-late January is probably the worst time of the year for baseball, the offseason is still trudging along, but you can almost see baseball in the distance. Just a few more weeks and [...]
Wednesday Potpourri
Getting back online after a week hiatus, so we won’t be doing any heavy lifting today. Instead, I’ll be posting a few Giants-related links. Let’s check them out.
~ The Giants avoided arbitration with LHP Jack Taschner with a 1-year deal worth $835K. Here’s something you might not know, Taschner will be 31-years-old next season. He [...]
Confessions of a Sidearm Lover
I’ve got a confession to make.
I love pitchers with funky motions. Mostly side-armers, though, I also love the old-time throwing styles of pitchers from the 60’s, like Koufax, Gibson, and of course this wouldn’t be a Giants blog without the mention of Marichal’s rock-back-and-huge-leg-kick pitching motion. But, what really gets my juices flowing are pitchers [...]
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 [...]