There Are No Moves to Make
This morning, Mark Purdy is educating us all that the Giants offense isn’t working. Hey, thanks dude. I’ve been adding up all the pieces too and just couldn’t seem to come up with an answer. “Not working” is the answer? So, what is the solution….
His big ideas are DeRosa and Belt. Um. No thank you. DeRosa? Before his wrist snapped clean off he was grounding more balls to 3rd/SS than Rowand did in his worst stretches. I appreciate DeRosa for working hard to come back but I hold out zero hope that he will contribute anything other than ground balls to the left side of the infield…..
Belt is obviously more interesting but the Giants have mismanaged this kid so badly this year that I don’t think bringing him up with a move that wreaks of panic is something that will work out…….
I did like his idea of giving CF to one or the other and dropping the platoon. Honestly, Id probably give it to Rowand. Torres is just trying to hard this year (or something). I don’t doubt his effort for a second but the results just aren’t there……..
In short, it will be difficult to fix this O with what we have. The bounce I had hoped they would get from Beltran never happened. Last year, if you look at the last 2 months of the season, the Giants were winning games with the long ball. Most of those guys are gone or on the DL now or just plain sucking this year. So if the blue print to success is the 2010 version than I think it better if we didn’t try to follow it. We just can’t, we don’t have the offensive firepower in 2011. And if any of you disagree with this opinion, please start by explaining how Orlando Cabrera is a #5 hitter on a major league baseball team…….
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Well he also tweeted this and his meth head lackeys are claiming it was a funny joke. “I would compose an “Aubrey Huff can’t hit, run, throw OR FIELD” tweet. But he did steal a base.” The posters are totally behind Baggs now- he’s fed them some ammo to further hate Huff. “Hate’ is not too strong here. His regulars are a hateful lot.
HUFF is having an offensive challenging year so far…….still there is time.
His history says don’t bet on it.
I guess you are suppose to stand up for your team and all but I kinda found this statment insulting to the Giants pitching staff, I didn’t go look at Rollins numbers for the series but I bet they weren’t that good
When Rollins heard a reporter say the Phillies’ pitching staff might match up with the Giants’, he quickly retorted, “The Giants’ pitching staff might match up with ours.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/07/SPG21KJENN.DTL#ixzz1URvlp8Ve
Top to bottom, including the pen…short series 3 starters, 4 max, I don’t see how philly has much edge. Encouraging thing about the series here to me was how well SF handled the “big sticks.” Howard was shut down completely, rollins and utley didn’t do much, and lincecum had pence 0-4 yesterday. Just like last year, we know what good pitching can do. Philly saw it up close and personal.
There was a philly fan on a call in show last night who was at the last two games. He had nothing but good things to say about the fans, teams and the quality of pitching. Nice to hear.
Hate to hit em when they’re down, but the Pirates’ 10 game losing streak has pretty much eliminated them from contention. So much for their pickups at the deadline. Looking at the pitching matchups Giants should revert to form and take two of the three. Approaching his last big salary hire, Beltran is under intense personal pressure to revert to form as well. I look for him to have at least one breakout game in this series.
Here’s a picture of Keppinger for your POTG box, Flav. Let’s get crackin’ here…
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Dodgers have quietly slipped to 9 back in the loss column. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.