By Chris Quick on February 9, 2009
Hey, it looks like the Giants offered Rich Aurilia a minor league deal similar to the one that Juan Uribe got. Fringe utility middle infielders? Gotta catch’em all. Per Baggs: For now, one development to share: Sabean said the Giants made Rich Aurilia an offer for a non-guaranteed contract similar to what they gave Juan [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Brian Sabean, fan fest, joe crede, pablo sandoval, rich aurilia, Third Base
By Chris Quick on December 23, 2008
I wanted to do a quick Wins Above Replacement post on Joe Crede and Pablo Sandoval. I’ve been pro Crede this offseason for a couple of reasons. He’s essentially a league average hitter with plus-defense that’s battled injuries over the past two seasons. Because he’s been stuck in the trainers room so much lately, he [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged fat dudes, joe crede, pablo sandoval, Third Base
By Chris Quick on December 16, 2008
This past week the Houston Astros decided to non-tender Ty Wigginton rather than extend a contract to him and increase his salary through arbitration. The Chron article that I just linked to suggests that after arbitration, Wigginton would have been looking at a salary around $6M. He made $4.35M last year. Because the Astros did [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged defense, free agents, Third Base, ty wigginton
By Chris Quick on January 30, 2008
Joe Crede heading westward to the Giants is the new rumor that just-won’t-die. From a White Sox Blog hosted on the Chicago Sun-Times: Joe Crede: The whispers around the organization still seem to point to the idea that if the third baseman shows up to camp and the back looks strong he will be gone [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged joe crede, terrible ideas, Third Base, Trades
By Chris Quick on January 9, 2008
Still not much baseball news going on (outside of the 24/7 Roger Clemens drama on ESPN which is fastly turning into a he-said she-said deal) but a few nuggets of information were posted this morning by Henry Schulman of the San Fransico Chronicle on free-swinging-should-be-gold-gloving 3B Pedro Feliz. Blurb #1 from Schulman: Contract talks between [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged joe crede, morgan ensberg, Pedro Feliz, scott rolen, Third Base
By Chris Quick on December 2, 2007
Nothing like arbitration news! to spice up the monotony of winter baseball. The Giants have recently made their decisions on who’s getting arbitration and who isn’t, from SFGiants.com: The Giants announced late Saturday night that they offered salary arbitration to third baseman Pedro Feliz, although this hardly assured that the free agent would return to [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, Pedro Feliz, Third Base, xavier nady
By Chris Quick on November 11, 2007
A quick blurb from GM Brian Sabean in a recent MLB.com article detailing the Omar Vizquel signing: “Third base is what we’re presently going to work on,” Sabean said. “I think that definitely has to be the first thing we try to address.” Sabean said that Feliz, who has averaged 21 home runs and 84 [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged miguel cabrera, Pedro Feliz, Third Base
