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Day Game today. Hicks likely taking his final at bats in the major leagues……
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Tanaka has a partially torn UCL. Dollars to donuts he has TJ surgery later this summer after the prescribed rehab treatment fails. Molina has a torn ligament in his thumb. That improves our wild card chances significantly.
Per Baggs, “Marco Scutaro is 38 years old, he has a chronic back injury, he was a defensive liability at second base last season and 11 NL second basemen posted a higher slugging percentage than he did.
No, he does not profile as a difference-making force for a team that has scored 30 runs over its past 14 games. But the Giants plan to find out what Scutaro has left, and soon.”
Oh joy as Unca would say.
Giants have a long history with old broken down players careers dying in a Giants uni.
Especially 2nd baseman, e.g., Glass Sanchez, Robby Thompson, and who can forget, Renaldo Antonio Stennett.
Yeah, Steve, really, it would be a good story if Scoots comes back and makes a difference, an encore performance from 2 years ago. Other than perhaps an initial bump from his return, the chances of that happening seem so slim to me that I’m sincerely hoping Giants management isn’t pinning hopes for a turnaround on Marco…… I’d rather see them trade for Utley than to think Scutaro is “an” answer, if not “the” answer…. Instead, really want to believe that Sabes, et al, are taking these next 3 weeks very seriously.
I like Scoots Paul, but if Utley showed up tomorrow or Ben Zobrist (another favorite of mine), I would say, “Who’s Scutaro?” 🙂
Agreed.
Has anyone ever found out if Scutaro’s injury goes back to the Holliday play in 2012?
I saw speculation on that a few days ago in a column. Wish I could find it (I would link to it).
Dirt, essentially the column said that Scutaro has gone from “Not a chance” to “It’s possible” regarding the Holliday play. I don’t know if anger has played a part insofar as him essentially having his career derailed or what. However, he sounds like he gave it credence in this interview.
Interesting. I suppose he could numb it up and make it through the SWEEP OF THE TIGERS then rest, heal up heading into 2013 and eventually fall apart.
I think even if he was reasonably healthy there wasn’t much hope for the last year of his deal.
A sign from my local watering hole..
Me blacking out when I’m drunk is alcohols way of telling me that what I do when I’m drunk is…
None of my business.
I wont shed any tears for Hicks being booted off the Giants. MLB players must play 43 days in the majors – yes, 43 frickin’ days – to earn a minimum $34,000 annual pension plan. Just one day in the majors gets them lifetime healthcare coverage. After 10 years in the big leagues, benefits grow to $100,000 annually. Hicks has been in the MLB for 4 seasons. Unfrickingbelievable that someone with a BELOW Mendoza line lifetime batting average of .155 gets a fucking pension.
Saw a message come over my phone that Bochy said Scoots was swinging ‘free and easy’ and he couldn’t wait to join the team.
For what that’s worth.
Hey if he can hit, he can stand near second and watch shit go by. At some point this has to get better.
Doesn’t it?
Dogs just won.
1 game out.
Scuts range may be a 2 yard circle between first and second. How is he going to turn double plays, and avoid getting that disk tweaked when some dude barrels in on him? Hey, IMO if he can PH and cheerlead these guys out of this funk, that’s enough. Losing 21 out of 29 actually isn’t a funk, it’s a catastrophe. Have the Cubs been this bad — I don’t really wanna know. How the Gyros are still in this race is pretty crazy…
Yeah. The same applies to Pagan. I’m pretty doubtful on him as well.
Shit.
With continued help from LA, this team may yet hold off the Padres.