Kap’s Gott to Go
This guy…..
I don’t like this guy.
Any manager with a brain wouldn’t be putting him in a meaningful spot. Let him work out his problems in the bullpen with his coach or in blowout games.
But Kap is brainless…..
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It’ll tribal with Shulman giving Kapler the long leash.
While I am frustrated as hell, I agree that three weeks is not a lot of time, especially with a team that just does not have a lot of talent. But, you also have to look to his time in Philly. He DID have a solid team, and the results were not great. I can be patient, but my patience wains.
It all makes sense now to me. Gabe Kapler fucking hates Trevor Gott. It has become Kapler’s mission to personally destroy Trevor Gott. This is the ultimate in personal humiliation. Gabe Kapler must eat Trevor Gott’s children for breakfast….🤪🤢😰😭
There is no other explanation…no manager can possibly be this dumb. Just not possible. I say he uses Gott every game in any crucial situation..
or just pitch him every game and force him to go all 9 until he gets hospitalized.
But risk not being able to use him endlessly and even more humiliation????
funny thing is stuff we’d normally complain about hasn’t been there so much lately except for sunday. Last night everyone except C got at least a hit Belt homered Longo long triple Dubon had couple hits solano got another streak started Yaz with clutch rake and Tromp got sac fly, and the D was good.
3 set up guys had shutout innings, and except for awesome solo bomb, Trout was held in check.
the 3 games where Giants lost lead they scored 19 runs total and hit their share of HRs.
Our bullpen sucks…
Last night, as per my earlier posting where I once again rhetorically asked who would pitch the 9th, all I needed to see was the pitcher selection. Switched over to reading my e.m.s at that point. One of them featured a link, so by the time I hooked back with MLB.com’s Game-Day, I was totally prepared for the situation. No surprise whatsoforever.
“If at you don’t succeed the first time, try, try again.” Guessing K. took that to heart and did the same-old, same-old. Frankly, my Dears, at this point the whole thing’s gotten so old that its stinking up the whole joint.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/anthony-young-pitched-like-a-winner-even-when-he-lost/
Gott is another Zaidi reclamation project and the others that didn’t work out were dropped pretty quickly. I imagine we’ll see Gott as the 7th inning guy very soon.
I’m thinking the way Zaidi built this team this year was with deadline trades in mind. Pence and Pablo for example, were inexpensive bats, that if they put up numbers close to last year, could easily be traded.
It’s probably why they are playing them in hopes they get on a streak.
This might even be the plan for the vets with contracts that Zaidi wants to dump. The FO already allowed Zaidi to eat Cozart’s contract to get Wilson, so maybe that’s the plan for Belt or Crawford if they can get on a streak. My concern right now is, if the team isn’t willing to eat any more contracts to get high rated kids back, would they add one of our own just to get out of the bad contract and to still get something back? Hopefully they’re not holding Bart back as a trade chip.
Don’t even THINK that last sentence. There are several guys on the blog who would go ballistic at the thought. Heart failures or strokes could be in the offing. For some, Bart has become the only ray of sunshine in a grey and dismal season.
Don’t worry Bozo.
They’re not that dumb.
The money 💰💰 they owe the Brandons is peanuts nowadays.
At most, Pence, Panda and Smdj have a few weeks to go.
Cueto’s an asset and they’ll live with Longoria for now.
Buster will play it out next season…
Good analysis, Loo.
A rare loo-cid moment?
Imagine what this mess has done to player morale. Here, like williedav points out, the position players did their job admirably, once again coming from behind to take the lead. The setup guys cruised. The only ones not to contribute to a possible nice victory were Gott and his manager who placed him once again into that trial by fire. Speaking of fire, it would be interesting to be a little bird hanging out in the clubhouse after the game and before the upcoming contest. Wondering if the word “fire” comes up a lot.
Wondering if the word “DFA” comes up a lot…
Don’t Fuckup Again?
I’ll bet SanDog is aching to buy a brown and gold Padre jersey.
I think that road one is pretty sharp.
Having Tatis wear it helps…
True. And I already have a vintage Winfield brown jersey!
Now, do I go with the solid or the pinstripes???
I think the solid is more versatile.
You can go out on the town with it.
Pinstriped jerseys are for the field in my mind…
Brown.
yeah solid is good. Godson had one on last thanksgiving and his new baby boy was wearing Tatis one as season opened.
Trading Shields for Tatis sure worked out well for the Pads, maybe Zaidi should start with the White Sox when he goes a tradin’.
Sox are jonesing for pitching–particularly starters. With a Cueto they could even give theTwins a run for the roses. Gausman would tip the balance with Cleveland. They do have some fine young position players after their loooonnnng rebuild.
Well alright, Stix. Maybe Zaidi is on the phone to those guys right now.
this supposed unwritten rule that Tatis broke last night is complete bullshit. They want him to take pitches thus extending the game if he walks? Stupid. “You try hard I try hard, you stop trying I stop trying” THAT is the unwritten code of sports.
Can you imagine how many unwritten codes jockeys have?
Migliore spills ’em here and there…
Fun fact, in a season full of ugly ones. Heineman was the first Giant to catch and pitch in the same game since Frank Bowerman in 1904.
Fun fact..Heiney also has the best era .000 in the bullpen.
In this juiced-ball era, and given what the A’s did to the Giants last weekend, there’s no way any team should ever take its foot off the pedal no matter how big the lead.
With the Tigers calling up Pitcher Casey Mize to start Wednesday only Joey Bart of the class of 2018 top 4 picks is not in the big leagues!
Thank you Giants for making this year even more miserable 😖 to watch!
I guess I missed this move but why is Steven Duggar back? Is Slater out?
And of course it couldn’t be Davis coming back to help ease my pain, thanks again!!
So far this is the worse Giant team that I can remember and I went to a lot of games in 85.
AZ got walk off W over A’s last night, 5th W in a row and 6th in last 7.
They are in town this weekend, and in further weirdness Giants play them next 2 weekends after that. In the turnaround vs. LA, 7 of the 10 Giants games vs. AZ are at home.
Gotta admit, Trout and for that matter Rendon ABs not to be missed.
I like watching Cano hit too, and he smacked line drive bomb onto CF grass in Miami yesterday for Mets.
His dad played briefly in Major leagues and named him for Jackie. Pride of San Pedro de Macoris DR.
1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
2. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
3. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
4. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
5. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
6. Pablo Sandoval (S) DH
7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
8. Tyler Heineman (S) C
9. Steven Duggar (L) CF
P Trevor Cahill
Bore Four holding down 4-7 in the line-up. I just do not get Pablo continuing to get DH spots. Anyone besides him would be an upgrade. Fuck, put a bat in Nakken’s hand…she can probably do better’n Pablo.
Yechh and again yecch. That is one of the least intimidating lineups in recent Giants history–probably predating the Bonds era and maybe even back to the sloppy Seventies. Lots of speed-bumps from 4-9. and even our two-holer seems to be dropping off from his performance last year. Then the starter…prepare ignitions for blast-off. Oh, and the “good” news. Smardj is due back soon. No word on Smyly…or any of Snow White’s seven little buddies for that matter.
Ywah, the more they trot out this decrepit lineup, the less interested I get. Today will be a gutty loss that we fall behind and fail to come back, 6-4. Cahill is the early casualty.
Slater has an elbow injury apparently.
He and Duggar are injured constantly…
Yep. the Jalen Hurds of baseball.
Who’s the name of the pitching coach besides DUMBSHIT!
1st base open he comes out to talk to Anderson, hmm you have a HOF Pujols up with a zillion clutch hits and RBI’s are you have a rookie with no credentials.Oh I see I don’t know how to signal a free pass, so we will go ahead and face Pujols and get burned.
His brain must be wired into Kapler’s as far as stupidity goes!
Then of course you have the 8th and Watson blows thru 3 right handed batters and knowing in the 9 th he would be facing a couple lefties including LaStella, but nooooo Kapler has to go with his can of gasoline instead and the results were as expected!
PS…Kapler don’t call Watson, Watty you haven’t earned the rights to give players cute dumb nicknames like Bochy could..
Take your pick, Kat.
Andrew Bailey – Pitching Coach
Brian Bannister – Pitching Coach
Ethan Katz – Assistant Pitching Coach
What’s stupid is Yaz, Slater, Solano, Flores, and Dick Dick Dick are all doing fairly well hitting.
The bottom half? Geee, I wonder.
this is a great point
Funny, this is what the FB crowd is crowing. “What did you expect?” My answer is two things.
1. I didn’t expect the hitting to be this good.
2. I didn’t expect the manager to be so tone-deaf at managing.
Even Doobie Dubon has gotten his average up.
Crawfish is ‘leading’ the bore core with a .247 BA and a whopping .295 SLG %.
Fuck this team if they keep trotting out Pence, Panda, Craw, and Belt.
Dare I bring up the dreaded tank word?
They WILL get the #1 pick if they keep Pablo and Pence in the lineup.
TANK TANK TANK!!!
So, any word on draft prospects? Folks who research that stuff already digging?
It really doesn’t matter who they bat at this point,it’s obvious they don’t want to start the rebuild this season by bringing back Davis and promoting Bart.
And besides if you bring up the atrocious pitching staff worse in baseball, the giants can only tease teams with a lead until they reach their third AB’s are longer in the game and watch the self destruction begin!
Slater is still on the active roster. It was reported about four days ago that he has an elbox flexor strain. When Duggar was brought up, D-Rod was sent back to Sac (OK with me, as he still sucks). Does not look like Slater is headed to the 10-day IL, as of now.
Guy they are facing today Dylan Bundy has done well so far. He wiped out A’s for 6 2/3 holding them to 3 hits 1 run 0BBs 7 Ks.
Thx to Unc for putting up stats…like to see Dickerson do more than be .700 OPS hitter. He cracked high velo line drive single last night as Kruk mentioned.
He does have 6 BBs second on team behind Yaz, but only 4 XBHs in 48 times up. Less HRs than Belt is unacceptable It’s supposed to be 99 in Anaheim today and that is live yard. Time for Dick to uh rise to occasion.
What’s your take, wd? Are they a free-swinging bunch? Told they should not wait for free passes? Any thoughts?
oh I do think some of the younger guys are more aggressive, which is easily used against them.
This time around, I wonder if teams will be chatting us up for Yaz. You’d think he’d be sought after. Let alone Solano.
Believe it or not, there are 2 disparate types of BC’s. One we know all too well already. The other would be a base-cadre, guys around whom you can rebuild the team. Oh, if some outfit was willing to give up half their prospects for YazmataZ, I spose Z should politely listen. Otherwise \\\ see above.
I agree this Tatis Jr. thing is just stooopid.
If in a blowout the opposing pitcher suxxx so much he loads the bases, and goes 3-0 on the batter, what is the batter supposed to do — take 3 strikes to take it EZ on the oppo? That is just crap. It goes against the basic competitive principle of sports. Maybe the A’s should have just laid down on Sunday after being up 9-2? No. The Giants sucked, and the A’s took advantage, as it should be, they are the better squad. Getting smoked by a better team gives the bad team incentive to get better. Baseball has some dumbass unwritten and principles, and if there is such a one in play here, it’s one of them…
Agree, in competition sports you go for the juggler and stay there. In football I hate the prevent and baseball is the same way, always attack.
Lol
Stix, I don’t think smrdz is coming back soon. Shea said today he isn’t even throwing. Smyly is though..
Um Kat, here’s Kapler on Davis:
“For Jaylin, the key is more contact. It’s more connecting with the baseball in the zone. When he does that, he’s going to be a ML. He just hasn’t demonstrated to date the ability to consistently put the ball in play. When he puts it in play, it’s with authority. But there’s still a lot of swing and miss in his game.”
Still hope he gets back up soon.
Translation: He fits right in…
mm yeah would hardly be alone. Wondering which analytic guy has it in for him, while excusing others.
And Duggar shows as much contact??BS!
Kat – it is a conspiracy against you my friend.
Dylan “Ted” Bundy is the Angels best pitcher so far.
3-1 in 28 innings with 35K’s and a whip of .063.Giants are overmatched against this kid.Hey Chi, he’s one of those big country farm boys from Tulsa Oklahoma, thought you might appreciate that..
But that’s why they play the games I guess.Hopefully the Giants give Gott a mental day off, till the season ends would work for me..
Been to Tulsa back in ’64. Didn’t see much corn growing there.
Oklahoma “country boys” don’t need corn to grow big and strong. My dad always said “corn is pig food” and refused to eat it. Me, I love a good ear or corn or two with my BBQ in the summer.
Not much on Twotter but I had to throw my $0.02 on the Krueger Kapler tweet. “Say you worked in a nuclear power plant . . .”
The thing about Kapler and his analunatics, doesn’t analytics include matchups? Why pitch to Pujols when there’s a rook behind him? Why let Cueto pitch to Turner when Watson is ready in the pen? There are countless baffling moves that seem to fly in the faceof his supposed analytical prowess.
“Prowess”. Kapler seems to have his prow where his ess should be and versa-visa.
Hah! Yeah, I meant to say Turner OWNS Cueto historically. Isn’t that what analytics is based on?
Yaz leadoff bomb.
YaZmataZ: No shutout today either. Man that guy’s got some baseball instincts. Inherited maybe? He may or may not be much on reading books, but he sure knows how to read pitchers.
Bundy Drive!
The neighbors late at night still hear that poor dog howl.
Well that didn’t take long to tie it up!
Freakin LaStella is really getting on my nerves now!
Now Pablo hits one out. There might be a bomb in every inning.
Lunch Angle!
25 th game 42 HR’s given up era 5.76 ..
I guess I need to keep trashing Belt and Panda…and maybe they keep hitting jacks. 😉
On that note, that fucking slacker Crawford needs to start hitting for some power.
Pablo breathing heavily on Solano in the dugout…
Chi keep ripping the LU, it’s hilarious Belt yesterday now Panda hit bomb it’s working..
I know…I just jumped all of Craw’s ass.
Just walked in from my 65+ senior softball practice (the league is postponed because of covid-19 but we still practice) in Anaheim. Very hot – 97 degrees and very humid, so balls will be flying out of Anaheim stadium today similar to Hotlanta back in the day. Many of my teammates are Angel and Dodgers fans, so they really have been giving it to me lately. Thank God for 2010, ’12, and ’14.
Yesterday, my ex-student and player, Jason Wright,was named the President of the Washington Football Club. Great student and athlete. I can see Jason being named Commissioner of the NFL one day.
I taught and coached in the Diamond Bar area. Some other ex-students and players I taught and coached include Jim Edmonds, Keith Van Horn and Alex Morgan.
If you coached Edmonds on how to play CF, you did one helluva job.
He was as good as it gets out there…
wow very cool.
Great you are still meeting up and playing!
Yaz, flashing the leather.
Yaz does it all to save Cahill’s bacon 🥓
Panda?!? Good to see Yaz get to one of those. he has been close but no cigar on so many lately. .
Makes you wonder why it took so long for Yaz to make the bigs…
The Orioles ineptitude?
Look at my boy 😉 Belt! 😂
Wonder how K & K would hold up if they had to do a live read for new Giant sponsor, “Hiscox”.
Keith Hernandez had problems…
https://tinyurl.com/y45r3lg4
That K&K Pablo stat surprised me. He came up in 2008 and he now has 149 reg. season HRs.
Panda clearly having difficulty transporting that gut on the base paths…
Dickerson has to make them pay for walking Yaz..
another ground out…arrghh
Maybe they need to dangle a whole chicken 🍗 at Panda from the dugout..
Regardless of all of our thoughts on Craw, dude is still a damned good defender. Awesome job of keeping the glove on the runner.
Belt doesn’t even manage to foul off the hard stuff at this point.
Man Longoria is going to feel that bruise for a while!
Pitcher drilled him so hard in the back it literally lifted him off the ground 😖
All my bore core whipping boys getting in on the action today. 😂 Got to keep grinding on them….
How many runs do they need to score to preserve the lead?
As long as Gott doesn’t see the field maybe a few more wouldn’t hurt..
For Chi Crawford says take that with a smoking 2 run double!
must be turn back the clock day—5 of 6 rbis from old guys
The Bore Core has had an uptick in performance so far this week. That is hard to figure.
Well, the numbers were so abysmal, they had to go up at least a little. They’re in their early 30s, not 50s!
😂
Angels pitching might have something to do with it too. Crawford just whacked another double.
bundy though had been very good and beat A’s last week.
mm yeah maybe they didn’t get that DP.
gave it to them though. See if Peralta can get out of this…
I thought he was safe. But we’ll take it. Out of the inning…..
He was safe a 1st what the hell happened with Maddon not challenging that?
My boy Craw, 😂
whatever works man!
None of these guys are as bad as they’ve looked. longo hit 20 HRs last year, 1 less than Pillar in 100 fewer ABs.
Sandoval had fine season too and was PH machine. Craw has new stance etc., and gets fewer ABs these days, another adjustment. Maybe a little success will add to confidence yada yada.
Agree. Hey, while a realist, I am also the eternal optimist….
Here we go. If Gott trots out there, my fucking head is going to explode…
Hank said according to Kap no Gott Rogers or Watson today.
Perfect, Loo….your the best at shooting from the hip….we need to get together for a cold beer, or three….
It better be Garcia, if it’s not Kapler will have to take a paddle from every flapper as he says “Yes flappers May I have another!”
Bore Core! 😂
Day Of The Living Dead!
Amazing that the Core are all waking up at the same time.
You know Kapler always has to tempt fate.
No reason at all Garcia couldn’t of closed this game out.
Why Anderson? Other then Kapler wants to continue being a dick
Anderson’s 3 HRs per 9 IP is less than half of Gott’s 7 per 9. He’d have to give up 5 to pass up Gott.
WTF! Maybe Gott should get up. 😂
only this team can turn 8-1 lead into nail biter.
If he just used Garcia the game would be over now! Screw Kapler!!
Winner winner.
missed this guy
Great puppet work and synchronization with the music….