By Chris Quick on August 2, 2010
I’m a bit late on responding to the Giants deadline deals, but I wanted to briefly write a few words about the two relievers the Giants picked up. Giants Lose: OF John Bowker, RHP Joe Martinez Giants Get: LHP Javier Lopez I guess this means the quest for the LOOGY is over. I’ll state up [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bullpen, javier lopez, joe martinez, john bowker, ramon ramirez, relievers, Trades
By Chris Quick on March 1, 2010
Ah, nothing like cruising around for cheap relief arms with upside. In order to create room for the newly signed Chan Ho Park, the Yankees have DFA’d 29-year-old reliever Edwar Ramirez. You can read the Wikepedia article on the process of DFA, but the meat-and-potatoes lies here: If a player is not traded, and clears [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged edwar ramirez, pitching, relievers
By Chris Quick on February 27, 2010
When it comes to evaluating prospects or looking at roster make-up, I’ve always been a little biased against relievers. It’s not that I think all relievers are replaceable, but in the short-term of baseball history, what teams have paid for and what they’ve gotten has been grossly out of proportion when it comes to relief [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged brad lidge, brian wilson, bruce bochy, luis perdomo, managers, relievers
By Chris Quick on February 3, 2010
The Giants have inked Guillermo Mota to a minor league deal. Unlike Byung-Hyun Kim and Horacio Ramirez, Mota gets a invite to Spring Training. Most fans will remember the walk-off home run that Uribe hit off the Dodgers on August 12th. That HR came off of Mota. Mota had a streak from 2002-05 where he [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bullpen, guillermo mota, minor league contract, relievers
By Chris Quick on January 18, 2010
Not much Giants news going on this week. Basically everyone is waiting for the arbitration cases of Brian Wilson, Jonathan Sanchez, and most importantly, Tim Lincecum, to come through. However, the Giants have retained one of their bullpen pieces from last season. The team has announced that they’ve come to an agreement with RHP Brandon [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, brandon medders, relievers
By Chris Quick on November 20, 2008
The Giants kicked off the free agent market this offseason by inking lefty reliever Jeremy Affeldt to a 2-year, $8M contract. The team, in sore need of bullpen help, made the first step among many in an effort to fix their battered bullpen. Affeldt definitely improves the bullpen but for fans that haven’t seen Affeldt [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged analysis, bullen, jeremy affeldt, pitchf/x, pitching, relievers, Signings
By Chris Quick on September 22, 2008
I’ve been a fan of Sergio Romo since his breakout season in the California League last year. His numbers from that year are, as the kids say: video game numbers. He struck out 104 hitters in 65.2 innings pitched. It was an impressive season. But, Romo never got much pub from prospect hounds because his [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged pitchf/x, relievers, sergio romo
