The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

One thing y’all are forgetting: the best bat traded at the deadline was Jeimer Candelario. Who were the Giants supposed to acquire? The market was heavy with pitchers, not bats. The Mets were rumored to have considered moving Pete Alonso, but that’s about it.

 

At the deadline the Giants had two starters. Two.

 

Y’all were talking about hitters, but sure.

 

Yes, we were focused on hitters because that is a mess right now as no one is hitting. But in reality, they needed starters even worse. I think back at the deadline, if they improved with an arm and not a bat, most of us would have said they tried but the team Farhan put together originally was bad. However what we got was AJ f’ing Pollock. Even in a down market for hitters, that was the trade?

Ugh, I just woke up and I need to go to my angry dome.

 

Here’s my frustration, pull the lens back a bit….last few years, the Braves trade for Olson and Murphy, two absolute studs; Pads get Soto, Snell, Hader; Phils get Turner, Castellanos, Realmuto;…..Giants with all their $$$ get zip.

 

Great story:

 

I think Bellinger needed to get out of LA. I think he just kept pressing and tinkering and the fresh start may have allowed him to get out of his own head. That's pure speculation, but it seems to fit the results.

 

Did the Giants have the talent to make some of those trades if they wanted? Washington gave up a huge package of young talent for Soto. William Contreras was among the players the Braves traded for Murphy. Esteury Ruiz was actually part of two of those deals. The Padres traded him to the Brewers as part of the packages for Hader, then the Brewers dealt him to Oakland as part of the three-way deal involving Contreras and Murphy.

 

Well, if the Giants' farm system is ass, that definitely is an indictment of the front office.

 

"Ball man" is probably a better description than "ball boy" in this case.

 

The Tigers doing their best SOT (think Same Old Lions, except the baseball version) tonight.

Reese Olson pitches no-hit ball through 6 1/3 but Detroit's offense* sleepwalks through yet another game. So he leaves having given up a two-run homer on his 104th pitch. White Sox up, 2-0 at the stretch.

EDIT: And now 6-0. Somebody kill me.

* - 14th of 15 American League teams in runs scored. Only the woeful A's are worse.

 

Cubs are going to blow this.

I'm always going to be Chicken Little with them, even after 2016.