Jake Peavy is a Stud
For you late West coast sleepers, you get to roll out of bed this morning to a MadBum/David Price showdown. Not too shabby for blowing off that worm.
What can you say about Jake Peavy except that he’s one of our MVP’s this season. Not only has he pitched brilliantly but he’s clearly a *clubhouse guy* and with Cain going down and Timmy pitching like shit, this staff probably couldn’t have weathered his absence.
Detroit must have looked at last night’s humble line up and remembered 2012 and just said to themselves, “Who ARE those guys?”
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Lol I was wondering if this thread would inspire that from you
Duh. Easy connection. Where ya at (gym)?
By the by, again thank you for the invaluable insight on the NFL tomorrow.*
* Unca may know the 49ers, but Flavor knows the NFL . . . lqtm.
Thanks. Yes I’m at golds. Hey, right now they’re only angles. If they hit, then thank me. Good luck on Sunday.
They would have been considered the best pair of trades any GM had made this season. Trade that happened was Escobar and Hembree, a couple of prospects who dropped down the list a bit, for Peavy. With Cain out and Timmy slipping, the Giants situation had become nearly desperate. Rotation was looking pretty grim. Peavy was having a horrible go for the Sox in the Dink Hitter league and even with his track record Boston was likely to let him go for a pretty good prospect haul.
The other trade wasn’t one, really. But if you look it the situation from that perspective imagine the Kudos Sabean would have received had he acquired a guy that if his AB’s were sufficient would currently be leading the NL in BA while solidifying what had been the team’s most gaping position hole and fitting into that critical two-hole in the lineup. Fresh farm produce is what we got instead of having to go the trade route and now all baseball is talking Joe Panik.
From a lackluster offense mired in the lower half of the league, the Giants have recently soared into the stratosphere, now ranking 4th in several important hitting categories …. and rising. With Pagan back and mostly healthy in that key table-setting position, followed by Panik and then Posey, you get a lineup studded with a trio of .300 hitters opening the action. Three P’s in a pod. Calculating on a probability basis on BA alone, then add walks and you have close to a hundred percent chance that the Giants will have a base-runner in the First.
Follow up the pea pod with the likes of Panda and Pence currently hitting just a notch or two below that magical .300 figure, add a white shark, a Susac or a resurrected homecoming Ishikawa and finally capping it with Crawdaddy batting 8th and currently sporting 58 RBI’s and you have an extremely deep lineup. In the last three weeks or so SF has had well and away the dominant offense in the NL. Giants have turned into a monster even with Morse currently hurting and Belt not back yet.
Postseason prospects are looking pretty rosy now with a probable October rotation of Bumgarner, Hudson and Peavy, with maybe a dash of Vogelsong; a solid bullpen with the comeback of George the Greek and maybe even a hint of something more with Timmy tossing a decent inning in the mop-up role…and finally that revved up offense keyed by the best trade Sabean didn’t hafta make slotted in the two-hole.
“They would have been considered the best pair of trades any GM had made this season.”
Good point Stick . . . I know Flavor is still revising his epic scholarly tome on Brian Sabean. Flappers, far and wide, await breathlessly for what is sure to be homage to the greatest GM in baseball today. 🙂
yeah. or didn’t make.
Meanwhile, Samardz-eye chart loses 4th out of his last 5 to the Astros, while Ishi Panik blanco and duvall help the Giants and Peavy beat Porcello on the road.
Schulman tweeted something like, “Still want Bonifacio at 2b?” last night.
Wake up you big babies. This is a pennant race…
Pagan CF
Panik 2B
Posey 1B
Pence RF
Sandoval DH
Susac C
Arias 3B
Duffy SS
Blanco LF
Bumgarner LHP
Nothing greets the day like a ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ reference
Buster at his best when he hits like Munson in his prime…
SUPER-SAC!!!
17 RBIs on 16 hits…
Price seems to be had at a discount today…..
Loo, got the Tigers broadcast . . . “No way is this going to happen again” the broadcaster says. SHOCK AND AWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL . . . They might as well just stck to the theme – “Who are those guys?”
I was going to go with Mesocaro in FD, but he wasn’t playing . . . Fast forward Susac. LOL. Bargain bin price too.
Nothing like taking a break from mowing the lawn and seeing a 4-0 lead!
Sheesh, what happened? Go to the store for 15 minutes and Bum self destructs!
I wonder how involved Posey gets with the pitcher when he’s playing first base.
Hopefully, he’s not blowing kisses to him like this catcher . . . http://www.suntimes.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=x80kxNfybtlMEfwkZsoiJc$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYsQwq_8dBh$JkO9uEL8Gd5kWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg
Bumgarner’s pitching – velocity, location, number of first strikes, overall command – seem pretty much the same to me whether he’s getting lit up or dominating.
excellent point.
Disagree. His cutter normally chops up RHBs on the hands. Not hitting that inside spot today with it against this RH loaded lineup…
You mean like the one VMart hit out?
Panik needs to tighten up his D, and likely he will. His tagging skills need improvement, needs to work on it. I don’t understand some of these guys that jab tag. Let the runner slide into the glove held in front of the bag, he’ll get himself out. It’s baseball 1A. That out should not have even been questioned, but for the poor tag execution…
God I hate listening to Fox. Smoltz is blabbering about how much hair he used to have and the play by play guy doesn’t get around to even calling the HR till it hits the fucking stands……
One of them just said something so stupidly obvious as if he were making an incredibly insightful statement.
Mute time.
Posey is friggin en fuego. IMO the argument is closed about WHETHER he should move to another position. The question is WHEN…
Yep. Me too. In fact, they shouldn’t even have him NEAR the catcher’s equipment. The Giants are one concussion away from being “also rans” in this Division/Wild Card race.
Understood, but you’re counting heavily on Susac.
At the risk of being repetitive, Buster’s differentials in hitting splits catcher v. 1b are huge, cannot be ignored with a few years now of sample size. If he catches for a decade, he might be a HOFer. If he plays elsewhere, he should be a HOFer due to his hitting, barring injury…
Just “flip it” Loo insofar as Posey playing catcher 1-2 times a week. Two reasons: 1. Reduce chance of injury; and 2. Take advantage of the unequivocal favorable hitting splits when he DHs or plays first.
Ostler had an interesting take on why he thinks catchers are taking concussions these days more than before…
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Strikeouts-curve-is-trending-up-5727324.php
If he’s right, then this won’t change, and they’re going to have to figure out a better way to protect catchers. Maybe some kind of mask that is attached to something along/down the catchers back so that the blow from the ball is taken mostly by the catcher’s body, and not into the head…
Bum definitely off his feed today. No Ks through 5?…
What do you guys think is a better look? Detroit has a narrow dirt path from home plate to the mound. ATT is just grass, no path. I doubt if either way makes much difference from a playing perspective. I kind of like the path look…
Frisbee time?
Sorry wrong place. But since I’m here, yes, I kinda like it, too….
Blanco with the drag bunt attempt. Didn’t work, but I applaud. Made Price make a play…
Good move by Bochy to get Bum out. He’d just struggle more. Around 100 pitches, and gritted through it with underwhelming stuff against a tough batting crew….
Yeah, I don’t get why Fox was showing the Smoltz photo montage during Posey’s AB, and almost missed the HR. If you’re going to show the montage, why during Posey’s AB, instead of, let’s say, Duffy or somebody? Boneheaded move by the producers of the telecast. It’s like the broadcasters get bored with the game that they are broadcasting. If baseball’s boring to the people broadcasting it, then the sports got big problems.
Detroit announcers discussing Bochy’s decision to rest Posey more (days off and 1st base).
Smoltz just said 8 innings giving up 5 runs is a better quality start than 6 innings giving up 3 runs (which he said would be a season 4.5 ERA if you did that every game). That Price has done his job giving his team a chance to win. Huh?…
That Romo slider had nothing on it. Cabrera can barely run, which isn’t a problem if you hit an HR…
Dang, Romo’s got nothing…
He’s an anachronism. A lot of teams are trotting out a string of guys throwing 95+ in the late innings these days.
Phew.
Nothing there that convinces me Romo needs to be closer again. His slider is coming in at 77, and doesn’t seem to have near the consistent movement it used to have…
That must be some TV you have, Snarkk! To me, it looked like would have been just on or off the outside corner had Cabrera taken it. It appeared just like the sliders he’s been throwing for the last several years.
Looks to me clearly the slider doesn’t have the bend it used to have. The one Cabrera mashed was knee level over the plate with a tiny tail on it and a “hit me” sign…
Ok . . . .
I think in Romo’s case, James, it’s not so much where the pitch ends up – it’s how much movement it has getting there.
Loo, Cabrera hit a low and inside slider from Bumgarner earlier. He then put a perfect swing on an outside corner slider. Had Romo moved it over a few inches, it would have been out his reach w/o lunging. I personally can’t discern that the slider is breaking less based on what I see on TV.
I know radar guns are variable, but Romo also hit 90 mph, which he rarely does.
It will take a bit more evidence to convince me that Romo’s skill level has dropped significantly.
Arias with another hit. A lot of the lower-lineup guys are making such better contact lately. Coincidence? Luck? Bam Bam’s magic touch?
Or Arias is not a 450 OPS player, and the chances were very good that his numbers would improve with more PAs.
He was looking done to me. Rowand-type of done. So, it’s great he had something left in the tank.
Even Aaron Rowand had a 621 OPS in 2011. Arias just turned 29.
Duffy hasn’t come close to figuring out Price today. Up by one run only, why not a sac bunt try to get fast Arias to 2nd — instead of flailing into a called K? I don’t get it…
He did hit a line shot at the SS today.
A sac bunt try there was the right call up by only one run and a fast runner in Arias at first, unless you’re Bochy, or Duffy is allergic to bunting…
because up next is Blanco LH hitter
So? If a guy is on 2nd, anything can happen. A passed ball means he’s in scoring position, on third with one out. Anyway, Blanco’s been hot lately…
I’m just telling you why….
Ausmus definitely doesn’t like his Pen, keeping Price out there until he absolutely has to take him out…
Nothing makes me admire Bochy more than when I hear that the Giants aren’t a running team.
Is there such a thing anymore?
Making it even more admirable, when his team is specifically called out!
That curveball was belt high. Why wouldn’t that be a strike? Good call by the ump…
That curveball was belt high. Why wouldn’t that be a strike? Good call by the ump…
congrats
NIce save by Casilla! 1-2-3 is the way to go.
This roadie is already a success at 4-2, and series win in the bag over the Kitties.
Posey making a run for MVP.
Go for the jugular tomorrow.
Adios Flappers…
Giants win a lot when they score first. Nice game.
Hearing footsteps. Looming shadows. LaBumbos are in the spotlight tonight. If Arizona beats em, their lead has shrunk to a single game. Even if they pull one out they will still be a case of nerves going into it.
What we witnessed today was most probably the current two hardest hitting teams in MLB going at it. Price toughened up and even with so-so stuff Bumgarner hung on for his 17th ~ with a bunch of help from the Bullies ~ Romo partly excepted. Bottom of cats lineup was no match for Casilla in a quickie.
Curious how that first inning developed. The two table setters couldn’t do it and then all of a sudden the Price was right for the rest of the lineup to do some tattooing. Susac looms as a monster with ducks on the pond while Arias has recently risen from the dead and has become a very useful backup. Yeah, “who are these guys”?
Tomorrow evening these two teams are MLB’s featured attraction. A win heading home would put these boys in an enviable position with only 19 to go, six of them with the recently somewhat lackluster Bums. That pair of parades during the past four years combined with August-September momentum probably gives Donny Baseball a good case of the willies.
awesome win. I am deep, deep in the Flavor Fantasy Football War Room so baseball is kinda dead to me till this epic week of football is over. Man, WAY too many Trojan fans at this Stanford game. Cardinal need to go back to school, they have made a season’s worth of mistakes today.
Cal wins an epic 55-14 battle against the might Hornets of Sac State.
Giants take another against the Tigers
Stanfoo and their ultra conservative HC Shaw blow one against the Trojenz — which team for a Cal fan to dislike more? A feather more dislike for the SCers…
What a day, what a day…
yeah. That one was too stupid to get mad at. Not sure whose brains were under those helmets today……
Just got some help from Cody if any of you football fans care…
Cody knows all, right? Kick it down. Thanks in advance.
All tied up in LA…
So much for that…
Just saw this.
What was Pat friggin Haden, the AD of USC, doing on the field jawing with the officials today? That’s total BS…
Kind of reminded me of when the Saudi Arabian Sheik guy came out of the stands and confronted the refs on the field during World Cup or Olympics many years ago.
I actually love me some Pat Haden. Threw the ball in college when nobody was throwing it.
FOOTBALL!