By Chris Quick on September 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged buster posey, eli whiteside, freddy sanchez, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on July 29, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged freddy sanchez, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on July 24, 2009
And win a game. Barry Zito hurled 7 innings of 3-hit, 1-run baseball for the Giants while striking out 6 batters and walking 5. The bottom of the 4th inning was particularly weird when Zito did the following: Martin Prado walks. None out. Chipper Jones called out on strikes. One out. Yunel Escobar walks. Martin [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, madison bumgarner, starting pitching, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on May 7, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brandon crawford, farm system, madison bumgarner, offense, offense stinks, prospects, sergio romo, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on June 3, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged andy d'alessio, ben snyder, clayton tanner, farm review, henry sosa, jesse english, matt downs, pablo sandoval, san jose giants, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on December 16, 2007
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, [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged angel villalona, farm system, madison bumgarner, prospects, tim alderson
