You may have noticed for the past couple of weeks I’ve been particularly silent on the topic of Giants baseball. Over the span of the last 14 days I’ve maybe seen 9 innings of total baseball that relates to the Giants. It’s not that I’m super busy on a personal level — I’ve had things [...]
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Giants Move Tim Alderson in Freddy Sanchez Trade
Henry Schulman is reporting that the Giants have traded RHP Tim Alderson (the #4 Giants prospect by BA before this season started) for Pirates 2B Freddy Sanchez. Salary details are a little sketchy, but for what the Pirates are getting in Alderson they’ll probably be kicking in the rest of Freddy’s 2008 salary.*
*Looks like I [...]
Minor Moves; Giants Can’t Score; Romo Pitches
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 [...]
Farm Review: San Jose Giants
The San Jose Giants are similar to the Augusta Greenjackets in some ways. The San Jose Giants are young and filled with some promising prospects, who in a best case scenario, are most likely 2-3 years away from the major leagues. Most of the Giants farm system talent is split between these two A-ball teams. [...]
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 [...]