First Half Champion
Here we are, guaranteed to be in first place at the break. This is still blowing me away. Regardless of how the season shakes out we have been given a gift this year. Appreciate it.
Gausman vs the underwhelming Fedde. We have unfinished business with that guy.
Sun River today. Catch you guys later.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
How did you play in your 36??? My game is finally coming back around close to 2 years of barely playing. Shot a 44 front 9 with my boys on the 5th. But still three putted both par 5s for a bogey and double boge.
We need to draft some upper tier arms and this college pitcher from Miami of Ohio Sam Bachmann may be considered one of the more ready big league arms available at 14 our draft spot…
GH..I like the kid from Kansas St Jordan Wick-considered the best left hand pitcher in the draft.Reynolds& forget the other guys name, had Bachmann and Wicks on the MLB show, and Wick only impressed more in the interview as Bachmann seemed like a country bumpkin and overweight,Wick is in a lot better shape .Bachmann’s chubby ness reminds of Sidney Ponson, no thanks!
I could see a nice tandem future of Kyle Harrison &Jordan Wick 2 LHP in their rotation.
Harrison I think the way he throws may be a better fit ad a closer…Wick not likely to be drafted higher?
1. LaMonte Wade Jr (L) 1B
2. M. Yastrzemski (L) RF
3. Wilmer Flores (R) 3B
4. Alex Dickerson (L) LF
5. B. Crawford (L) SS
6. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
7. Steven Duggar (L) CF
8. Curt Casali (R) C
9. Kevin Gausman (L) P
The Grave Duggar is in free fall and in dire need of a good game going into the break…
Going on almost a week of consecutive wins in Draftkings. This guy Lopez pitching for Miami has 7 SOs in 3 innings. Sheesh, not certain that is normal for today’s game or not. I still can not watch any baseball on TV. Too much feast or famine. I see money coming my way again. The question is how much.
Whoops . . . Make that 9 SOs in 3 innings for Pablo. lol
All in a row. Nola last month tied Seaver for most consecutive Ks with 10, so Lopez has a shot at joining or surpassing them.
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Agent .000 grounds out to end K streak at 9.
This is the Amy G of the Mets…
No surprise, Beede has a long way to go trying to find his command of pitches after coming back from TJ surgery.
Can’t stay in the bigs without good control.He needs consistent starts at AAA..
mm Webb also got sent out I do believe. What I read was they want these guys to pitch this week.
Yeah, he couldn’t do it. Thank you Mac for telling me what the record was.
Caleb Baragar is back; he must’ve done his penance, maybe a lap around the beads. I don’t know what his peccadillo was. Wasn’t his ERA under 2.00 when they sent him down? Go in peace, son. Your sins are forgiven thee.
I’ve been a Giants fan since 1955. That’s likely the longest tenure here. (Not bragging; most folks here are way more knowledgeable and avid a fan than I am.) I can’t recall, off-hand, a more shocking, positive surprise than the Giants’ starting pitching than this year’s. I mean, really? Herr Kevin Gausman? Anthony DeSicialianoneapolitano? And that’s with a mediocre and inconsistent Cueto. In fact, the team’s success overall at this point is a stunning surprise. I’ll take it. I’ll enjoy it, and not second-guess it. After THREE IN FIVE, everything is delicious, calorie-laden, steaming, Thanksgiving Dinner fuckin’ mouth-waterin’ gravy. Period. full stop.
A’s Matt Olson just hit no doubt rocket HR into RF seats, off LHP no less. His second of day #22 and 23 of season. Making $5 mil this season, arb eligible 2022 FA 2024. A’s are gonna have to pay this guy, who also a good defender.
He’s automatically on the block, you say?
I would sure like to Matt Olson in a Giants uniform.
Hey he’s with the cheap ass A’s anything’s possible including Chapman.Not sure of his contract eligibility but a stud of a fielder and power hitter like Olson..
wow top of that lineup my 3 fav hitters.
Btw Loo dunno if you guys see it, but AmyG doing commercials for team now.
The NL futures are kicking some ass at Coors…let’s see if Luciano and Ramos get in soon.
Luciano just popped out to end the 4th.
Buster Pipp.
lulz
does make you wonder, what do they do with Bart?
Forgive me, Casali, for anything negative I ever said about you.
Holy Cow Casali!!! 3Run Bomb 💣
What have they been putting in his Wheaties?
Flo Nettles!
Perfect mix of wil and flo on that play. Very nice.
Unfortunately, I was right yesterday about Acuna’s ACL.
Baseball needs as many exciting players as it can get.
Seen way too many of those kind of landings lately and the resulting ACL.
IDK if ACLs were as rampant years ago, maybe yes and they just called it a torn up knee…
Runner on 3rd, 1 out and Duggar takes strike 3. Come on, man.
yeah on inside pitch he might have pulled for rbi. Nats weren’t gonna let Casali hit another 3 run bomb, and Giants don’t score. He’s in a big slump 3-24 again…lucky bad hop single first time up, back to reality. Takes more than a nickname to be a ML player.
Man GD just needed to put the ball in play there instead of looking at strike 3..
Heliot took a couple of balls to start his AB and then got a couple of good hacks in but got fooled on a 3-2 change up…
Article on the Giants said they were “showcasing” Bart for a possible trade. Haven’t checked, but is Bailey doing well enough for us to think about trading Bart for a starter that we could hold on to?
No. Bailey struggled big time at High A Eugene, Mendoza line numbers. Played some 1b over there too iirc.
slash line at Eugene: .185/.290/.296 2 bombs in 135 ABs
Not good for a high pick, to struggle so much at that level…
No one would “showcase” the current version of Bart. Emerg pre break call up. Of course, if he’d boomed the first ever oppo splash hit they would’ve scrambled to make a post facto showcase out of it.
Duggar swung at two pitches that were way inside and not really hittable, and then took a called third strike. He’s kind of regressed a bit lately.
That Sunday pre-game show that has started lately is unwatchable. I know it’s geared toward Generation Z fans or whatever, but it’s lacking.
Couple years back the white woman on that crew was the only roaming commentator at the park. I didn’t mind her. Sorta liked the way she kept climbing the sections when she was pregnant. Then one Sunday she came to the section where I often sat. One of her assistants pointed to our row–bunch of colorful fans, right? She vetoed us immediately and led her camera to a nearby row featuring younger people. The matronly fans around me looked up from their scorebooks and growled: “Ageist bitch.” The rest of us mocked her a bit more loudly. Good times.
Yeah, so it goes. 🙂
Yes it’s easily unwatchable Zumie.
I don’t think the Giants have won on Sunday with this bunch, hopefully today!
And why is Cole Kuiper sitting in a big leather chair like he’s special?
Why are Duanes brothers broadcasting for the a’s and producing for the Giants casts?
Yeah, NBC Bay Area/Nor. Calif. has hired an extraordinary number of Kuipers.
Nothing like a sweet DP to get out of a jam for Gausman..
Giants did promote a C from low A San Jose, Ricardo Genoves, where he was raking (.338 BA .992 OPS) to High A Eugene, where he is 7-40.
They sent Bailey to that Arizona League just started playing, that used to be called Fall League; new name escapes me. giants have 2 teams there; I think Bailey is one of 4 Cs total.
Remember 2008 when they promoted a C from San Jose A straight to mlb? Now that was a jolt. Not that he played all that long at C.
Crawford beating the shift today.
Bart is raking at AAA. I don’t think his callup was a “showcase”. One game? And, that’s likely what it will be. I don’t think he showed much one way or another. To me, his D still looks suspect, though Krukow raved about how much better it is. That split stance approach seems suspect to me, he can’t move laterally very well doing that. That wild pitch that Beede threw was in the dirt, yes. But, it wasn’t even off the plate, and Bart tried to backhand it, not get down in front with glove up and try to smother it. That to me wasn’t a very tough block and he just whiffed on it. Still, I would not trade him, especially with Bailey less than stellar so far in high A ball…
Even Casali had trouble today moving latitudinally after a Guasman splitter in the dirt. He met the bouncing ball at angle just as Bart did yesterday. Shoots away, of course. The new lowdown set must be particularly tough for a guy as tall as Bart. I was hoping to see him with a chance to showcase his arm yesterday. No such luck. He’s stuck in a strange place. Sabe/Evans drafted him in one era, he’s now catching in another. As I said last year, let’s hope this treacherous twilight of his career is dawn, not dusk.
The Euro soccer final now in the middle of penalty kicks to decide it.
The biggest match in Europe in years, and it will be decided on PKs.
Absolute rubbish way to end it.
After the first OT, if still tied, they should make each team pull one player, and do that each successive OT period. Make the OT periods shorter, so the guys don’t wear out.
PKs to decide this is like having a home run derby decide the WSeries, or a free throw contest decide the NBA finals…
Yeah, for a championship game like that and the World Cup, they need to come up with something better than PKs. Although I’m not that big a soccer fan to get too riled up about it.
Soccer fans overwhelmed me when I visited Ireland a few summers back. Why? Then I stumbled into a baseball/hurling pub in Galway. Ahhhh!
Flo throw!
The Grave Duggar deserves to be bashed for his current 3 for 26 tailspin.
So where’s the criticism for Lamonte Wade who coincidently is also 3 for his last 26?
For what it’s worth, Giants radio is questioning whether Wade is still sort of injured…
Wade does draw some walks.
So does Tauchman. 🙂
Fair enough.
Wade also has looked less than stellar at 1b and only other spot is corner OF, one of which is taken by Yaz and other by Dickerson who has shown some power lately. Tauchman and LaStella both in Sac and will get ABs all next week. Wade could be back in Sac after all along with Vosler.
Better depth in the organization than there used to be.
Gausman started nibbling for some reason.
Yo Kap, Gausman is gassed.
He loads the bases, and the ump checks for sticky stuff ?…
Fucking Flemm and kuip didn’t even notice how Gausman got ump squeezed on the Soto ab because they were busy jawing inanities about acuna and acls. Now they suddenly realize gausman has walked two and they’re down on him. Terrible announcing. Meanwhile, the cameras didn’t offer a glimpse of the shifts in play. Fucking game day could do better.
The Giants had good chances earlier to add-on to the three runs, but didn’t, and have let the Nats hang around.
I don’t think Wade injured his glove hand.
Yikes, Wade.
Ha, that was as angry as I’ve ever heard Kruk when the ump checked Gausman.
It’s get off my lawn all the time now. He’s done.
Leone quietly edging towards dependability. The fact that he can hit 97 is a plus.
Yeah they’re is no way they’re moving Bart especially with a struggling Bailey who’s not nearly ready to take Bart’s role who’s getting better with more big league experience.
The main topic,should they’re be a O/U on when he hits his 1st HR as a Giant?
The Ice Man Cometh. And goest. Rogers is terrific.
Or goeth. I’m not gonna check that again
The 3 Sunday Funday crew are ridiculous thinking they add in value. It’s a much not TV watch..
Grave Man diggin a deep hole for himself. But the best persevere.
The problem is, Tauchman gets his ABs.
Just a great movie Xoot!
Along with Tombstone 🪦
GD looked like somebody walk all over your grave”
cbs had him 1-19 coming in. 1-4 today with 2 Ks, 2-23.
Goeth . . .
Like the Nats
Giants handled Soto pretty well all weekend.
C’mon McGee
Toora loora toora loo rye ay…
Castro has tape on the middle part of his bat. How can that be legal?
Oh boy. Scary McGee
Get someone up!
Wow.
SWEEEP!
hoooooo doggies Sweeperoonie !
I love these uniforms! 🙂 🙂
Fortunately we won’t see them for 2 more weeks, when LA comes to town on Tuesday 27th.
Rogers lucks into the save, that 3rd out was a rocket. I am at the turn buying beers and they had the game on! Woo Hoo! First place at the break baby!!!!
McGee.
sorry that was mcGee. They both suck interchangeably
Not lately, though.
rogers has given up 6 hits in his last 3 appearances. McGee scares the fuck out of me every time he’s out there. They are adequate set up men, at best. Z needs to go get a closer.
Rogers is fine and McGee isn’t any worse than most closers. both last 2 batters hit ball hard, definitely.
fangraphs had column 2 days ago about how good Giants pen has been this season, and by how far it has exceeded expectations. And that’ with guys like Doval Wisler and that guy they sent down to Sac right away who I can’t remember that threw really hard too.
Rogers induces a lot of weak ground balls that sometimes leak through. He’s terrible. Rogers induce a hard hit out. He’s terrible. lol.
those were the only 2 at bats I saw. It would be nice if Z put together a dominant bullpen. He pitched 20 innings last year, he’s nearly doubled that at this point. It is highly unlikely that he’ll remain effective through the year and through the post season. Z’s main priority should be on improving the bullpen. This is no throw-away year, obviously. Hit the post season with guns a blazin’
nobody threw any innings last year, especially closers. Every contender will be looking for pen help; putting together a dominant pen or closer from outside org this time of year is a longshot.
Z has said they might be more interested in SP, which makes hella lot more sense—instead of 1 inning guys, get someone who can go 5 or 6, especially in playoff series.
James is right, Leone emerging as premier set up guy in front of Rogers and Mac. Sure worked great today.
lulz- Manfred got booed at the draft.
ESPN has the draft on.
Drama of the draft begins.
Boy Manfred besides being booed like hell, try’s a comeback announcing the 11 players only who showed up seemed alittle desperate for ratings increase..
Pirates blows up the draft board by taking Catcher Henry Davis first.
Next Posey?
Catchers that can hit are gold.
i usually don’t get excited with baseball drafts but for some reason I am about this one. I think it’s because I really liked what we did last year in the draft.
A closer maybe.
A solid veteran CF, definitely – and even better if he can play a little 1B…
Maybe Leone ends up closer.
Don’t forget, Reyes Moronta is back rehabbing. Maybe he can make a comeback.
Like BF, Rogers and Mr. McGoo scare the crap out of me every time they come in…
I would still like the Giants to make a push for Kimbrel as the closer and moving back both Rodgers&McGee to 8 th inning situations.If that doesn’t work the Cubs LH Reliever Andy Chafin would be a tremendous addition to this bullpen as well,and cost less to acquire then Kimbrel would take.
Al’s son, Jack Leiter, drafted #2 by the Rangers.
Maybe a Texas Timmeh?…
Could be. A pick like that can change the destiny of a franchise.
Kmbrel pitched 15 innings last year.
And of btw, in 2019, 20 innings.
Do NOT go that route–high priced closers, ugh.
Don’t care about being scared–Wilson scared crap out of me too, all the way to end of 2010. Results all that matters.
McGee hitting 97 on his fastball several times today was encouraging.
Would you be comfortable or confident with him trying to close a WC game in bottom 9th in the oppo’s park, Giants up by one run going in?
Not me…
I would like the Giants to upgrade at closer, but only if they can do it without trading away too much. I know the “too much” mark is a fine line.
No way ZMan is trading any top prospects, nearly the entire 25 man roster right now theoretically may not be back next season. I think LaStella and Longo are the only guys under contract next season, or am I forgetting someone(s)?…
All the non-free agent eligible guys like Yaz.
Wade, Duggar, Estrada, etc.
Those guys don’t have major league deals, though, right?…
Right. They can be easily cut loose.
Maybe Wade or Estrada has developed trade value already.
Yaz for sure will be back. He’s one of the core guys now. His contract situation is intriguing, though, because he’s kind of an older guy.
You can’t play mlb without a mlb deal. ???
Long-term deals is what we meant.
McGee had good velo today. So did Gausman. Rogers terrifies the strongest hitters and the queasiest Giants fans. The Ice Man Cometh for the eighth. Zaidi said outright the other day that they’re looking for pitching at the deadline. SP, and RP if possible. That approach assumes that the hitters coming off the IL will rake. But who the fuck are we to question the plan? Oh, yeah. We’re bloggers.
I am confident ZMan will make some good moves.
No doubt he’s looking for pitching, because he should be, like all GMs of contenders for the post season.
I don’t think for a second that he’s content with the Pen, including if not especially Rogers and McGoo…
The U.S. draft is mostly a honky affair. A lot of terrific players will be signed also from Latin America.
From Asia, also, of course.
Puerto Rican players are in it. Otherwise, the kids in the Caribbean and Japan and Korea et al are looking elsewhere for their first shot.
The Giants drafted Heliot Ramos out of Puerto Rico in 2017. Luciano was a classic find in DR. No draft.
Yeah, the Giants have upped their involvement in seeking players from Latin America.
Puerto Rica is and for a long time has been part of the usa. It’s an important point.
Yes, I know Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.
Latin America AND Puerto Rico.
I apologize in advance to the Dutch Antilles.
No help from the D-Backs today. At least they did win one game in that series.
They lost 22-1 yesterday, with 8 LA homers.
Dbacks are historically bad.
At least Bum gets his $15 million or so per year.
Thanks Dbacks — you are giving him the backpay for past performance that the Giants smartly underpaid him…
That’s nice of them to do that. 🙂
Maybe the Giants came out even on the Zito and Bum deals.
On the performance/cost ratio, one was horrendous for the Giants, the other was horrendous for the player…
Flavor will be happy that Will “The Thrill”Clark is representing the Giants in Colorado..
All other scouts involved with the draft are in Arizona at the Giants complex along with Farhan,Harris&Holmes..
Nice touch by Zman to get them altogether for all their inputs as well from different regions across the states.
No doubt morale is very high again in the Giants organization.
And obviously in the fan-base, too.
Are they there to watch the AI make use of their raw data? Like inviting the grunt scientists to White Sands.
Giants are on the clock.
Maybe this is thread waiting to happen during all the off days of NO baseball, but for those looking for dominant pen/upgrade at closer at trade deadline:
who do you have in mind?
What do you think it would take to get them?
Here again is the list of closers and their stats for this year:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/closers
McGee or Rogers may yet give up that homerun that sends every Flapper into a total off season depression, despite what’s already been one of the most awesome SF seasons ever. But the idea that there’s someone in the top tier of the above list who’s far more likely than anyone else not to fail in a “critical moment” is pretty suspect.
Craig Kimbrel’s post-season stats:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=kimbrcr01&t=p&post=1
Power pitcher. Looks like a promising one.