Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Nah, I think Belt and Crawford will open spring training penciled into the lineup -- in very light pencil in Crawford's case -- and they will have payroll from Tejada, Beltran and maybe Ross and J. Sanchez (a total of $15M at least) to look around the market. Huff and Rowand are off the books after '12.

It's hard to repeat, is what a lot of this comes back to. That and the fact that they really weren't that good in '10.

 

It's showing how lucky they were last year.

They had 115 games decided by three runs or fewer last season and pulled a lot of those out of their ass.

 

I don't have the 3 runs or less record off hand, but they were only 28-24 in one-run games last season. Pretty standard for an above-average team.

They are also on pace to allow fewer runs than last year. I just don't understand how an MLB team could put together an offense that bad. Give me my pick of 8 AAAA roster-fill guys and I bet I could score more runs than this.

 

They must have been built for the post season like the 84 win Cardinals. (Suburbia)

 

Indeed. And if Brooks Conrad can pick up any of those grounders and make a proper throw to first base, they maybe don't get out of the first round.

 

When your only offensive 'upgrade' is Miguel Tejada, you get what you deserve.

Sabean probably thought they didn't need to score a lot of runs to win that division.

 

Tejada was a bad signing, and I don't think the Giants themselves would even bother to argue. The rest of it you can kind of see -- if Huff hits this year like he did last year, a lot of the problem is solved, but he has been exceptionally awful; and Torres, though he isn't making a lot of money, did give them a false sense of security at the top of the order. Ross and Burrell, guys who caught lightning in a bottle last year, have reverted to showing why they were on the scrap heap.

BTW qtlaw -- I checked F. Sanchez, I know he gets a bum rap for being injured all the team, but this year is the first time as a major leaguer that he hasn't reached 479 plate appearances. Maybe they were too dismissive of his shoulder troubles, but I don't think it's cut-and-dried that they had to expect this.

 

The Giants needed to complement Posey in the middle of the order this season and no combination of Huff, Panda, Ross and the fading Tejada were ever going to be up to the task.

 

Aubrey Huff was a terrible re-sign as well. He was good in the playoffs, but really faded in the second half of the 2010 regular season. They'd have been better off just sticking Belt out there and letting him sink or swim.

 

Good thing Nighthawk isn't a Giants fan. He'd be furious w/how they won the World Series last year.

 

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2011/08/30/this-week-in-mismanagement-the-mike-scioscia-hates-good-catchers-edition/

And this uber-cheesy video, narrated by Vin Scully:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=txNfUqd8vhU

 

And he'd be especially pissed that they ran a "World Series baby" contest this year, the winner being the one who was born closest to exactly nine months after the final pitch.