This Was Not A Dream. This Was Real.
Still riding the highest of high’s from that heist Buster pulled off on the clueless Red Sox. Look at this explanation from Craig Breslow. Does this make sense to anyone?
“It’s not that this was the best deal that we could get, because the best deal that we could get may not necessarily be good enough to trade a player like Raffy Devers. This is the one that made sense, this is the path that we went down, and we ended up where we did.”
Uh, yeah, ok. Good luck with all of that.
Headed to the game on Friday night. Gotta be there to watch Devers face off with his likely stunned mates. Will be sitting in the LF bleachers and as I texted Loo, Mac and Diggity yesterday I plan on watching Raffy blast one oppo right to me and having it land in my sweet fucking hands. And in case you’ve been wondering, no gents, these hands have NOT been soaking in Ivory liquid. LFG!
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Didn’t get chance to weigh in yesterday but agree with universal sentiment expressed by everyone. Buster gave Giant nation a Father’s Day gift.
As my son said to me couple hours after trade (or heist) was announced Sunday night, there’s nothing wrong with swinging for fences. In Devers case, that could be meant literally and metaphorically.
Absorbing roughly $250 million contract with 8.5 years left worth risk for top 10 bat in all of baseball who hits for power and average. This acquisition plugs huge void in lineup and provides more righty/lefty balance. Devers becomes fixture at DH and can man 3B when Chappy’s out. 1B??? Who knows after his refusal to play there for Sox.
The one risk I see is possibility that Devers gets disgruntled by year 2 or 3 and becomes clubhouse problem. He’s only on Giants roster because his continued presence in Sox clubhouse became untenable. Therefore, Giants must manage him adroitly and ensure he remains positive and vocal leader alongside Chapman, Adames and Webb.
But potential rewards well outweigh risk. Buster…well done.
I’m hearing some people comparing the lopsided-ness of the trade to the Doncic deal…
T J McConnell is amazing guy. Undrafted out of college at 6-1, now 33 and playing big role for Indy with Halliburton not at full strength. Good finals series so far.
his dad’s a coach, too. He plays like his dad’s a coach.
wow thanks didn’t know that. Have fun Friday. Lot of Boston fans in Bay area should be fun.
Bought tix for tonight’s game last week. The moody overweight clubhouse cancer better be in the line up.
You don’t love the trade???
I like it a lot. What I love is that Buster applauded the Beltran trade right before pulling off his own big move. I think Devers will rake. So did Beltran. The burden is still on the rest of the team to make it work.
And of course the Devers trade is not just about this year.
cool. RH Cleveland starter. Dom should be at 1B. Haven’t heard how badly Schmitt hurt his foot the other day. Still, moody tumor should be DH.
That’s what I’m hoping for. Pretty stoked to be going tonight.
If I was in town I would be there also.
And in a fate of are u kidding me? My daughter&husband just flew out to Boston yesterday for a wedding my son in law will be in.He mentioned to me the whole wedding party /post marriage will be going to Worchester AAA ball park of Redsox’s to see a game, this was before the trade he realized now Damm I can now see Dirty Harry hanging out in the pen are maybe a start! Pretty Cool 😎
One Giant coach Rafael Devers should avoid at all cost even put ear plugs in when he approaches is Pat Burrell, I don’t want him fucking up his great swing by making some tweak adjustment advice..
Burrell is a terrible hitting coach ,Giants win cause of the other coach JD Martinez not anything Burrell offers except underachieving hitters..
So I’m going to fact check this with just my memory but as I recall Beltran started hitting for us once we were basically eliminated. Probably would have to check the game logs that year to confirm. He also got hurt too right? Wrist?
my recollection is similar BF, him being injured is what I remember most, and I do NOT recall is bat being much of a factor
I checked the game logs back in 2011 when Twinfan started dismissing Beltran as a failure. They were not out of it at the end of August. They 4 or 5 games behind , if I remember correctly. Yes, he was injured part of the time.
Beltran and Pablo carried the team in September, which SF finished a few games over 500. The rest of the line up was even worse than they had been the previous 5 months. Arizona also went on an absolute tear in September.
Ohtani pitched 1 inning last night and LA supposed to use opener/pen game again tonight. Found out LA gets another break from baseball in that he doesn’t count as pitcher on roster.
I watched that first inning. Oh barely made it through. He was wild. The pen was active. He got lucky. Hit 98 easily though.
thanks. Picked game up afterward, then Dogs lit up Cease. Couple innings of Orel is beyond me.
I left the game on in the background for a while. I guess Cease had a no hitter going until the bums blew him up.
I had busy weekend and didn’t hear of the trade til quite late Sunday eve. As BF stated: “wow! Just WOW!” A real stunner! I’m still in ‘pinch me’ mode. I’m on pins and needles waiting to see if Devers is in tonight’s line up.
Well as of right now Devers is playing 3B and hitting 3rd!! Let’s Roll
Buster means Business! Buster:Hey Raffy just don’t worry about that shit from a dysfunctional former team in Boston, your a SF Giant now and I’m here to help you continue your greatness. No problem, u need some 3B with Chappy out I can do that along with DH..
Schmitt’s foot must be fucked up.
Schmitt was just coming back from banging the same foot, now twice.Tried to toughen it out but left in the 3rd.X-rays came back negative atleast, but maybe he stills end up on 10 day ? Devers sort of a hack at 3rd I’ve heard but his bat isn’t.Till Chappy gets back Devers could see a lot of action at 3rd and DH of course..
well, as usual, finger on the pulse there, Kat. Do you have red-phone connection to the dugout? Ha! I looked at the Giants site, they only have the ‘matchups’ so far, and Devers is not included in the 13 listed. He is on the 40 as DH, but I cannot find today’s lineup as being posted yet.
2011 was such a disaster. Wasn’t there Flap #2 at First n Main? Blade Snarkk Wisco and Ted?
IDK.
I have trouble remembering what happened this past weekend…
3B? Hope he’s not rusty.
Speculation about Dom’s fate may not be front-page news now but I’m interested. In interviews, he sounds more like a smart, articulate musician than a jock. And his fine D is uniquely graceful, too — the otter-like belly slide to tag the bag, the alley-oop toss to a pitcher covering. Effective and fun to watch. I hope he can continue to hit a bit.
if it were me I’d just DH him for a while. He hasn’t played in the field all season. He’s got enough on his plate as it is.
yeah, that was my view, too. But if Schmitt’s down, the alts are Koss and Fitz. Maybe Rafael took IF practice after his meeting with Buster yesterday.
Putting him at 3rd does allow them to “respect” Wilmer for the first game of the new era, for what that’s worth.
That’s a benefit.
Isn’t there roster move coming with someone leaving as Devers is added?
Beltran started 3 for his first 24. He hit his first bomb on Aug 24th nearly a month after we got him. In Aug he hit .300. Sept he hit .378. So it was pretty much as I remembered but AZ ran away with the division in Sept so what he did then, or anyone on the team for that matter, probably wasn’t going to matter much.
Beltran .920 OPS with us so whenever the production happened he was considered a success with us. It just wasn’t enough
iirc, Charles Johnson publically called the release of Rowand and the trade for Beltran CEO-style wheeler dealing from a guy who wasn’t a CEO and he used those transactions, maybe as cover, to explain why the owners fired Neukom in mid-Sept. Neuk’s wiki page offers a different take. I well remember Neukom zipping up to Washington to be in the courtroom for Timmy’s driving while ripped hearing. Maybe he tried to do too much.
The big trade has things buzzing. Hey, the Giants are relevant this season; we’ll take it!
I’m not a fan of narratives that say Zaidi didn’t try as hard as Buster. There’s a lot of Zaidi’s guys on the roster. And who knows what budget restrictions Zaidi was given by the owners. We’ll probably never know. Maybe Buster just has more pull with the owners, given who he is to the Giants legacy.
The Valkyries!! Any WNBA team that takes this expansion team lightly is going to get smoked. A’ja Wilson’s Las Vegas team walked into a buzzsaw. The Vals are already legit, even as an expansion team. There’s no pressure on them, so they just play very hard and go for it. Every win they can get is a feather in their cap.
Clark is back, and the Fever defeated the team with the best record, the NY Liberty. At one point in the game, Clark scored 9 points in 38 seconds. Longtime observers of the league said: “Well, that ain’t ever happened in this league before.”
The NBA finals: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. If you like three-pointers and free throw shooting, well, this is your thing.
Couple friends of mine going to Chase Thursday. Have you seen State Farm commercial where Clark says “everything easier from the logo?” Pretty funny. Sure was for her last game.
giants presser introducing Devers live now (2:30p)
Expected LU subject to change of course with Robbie Ray on the bump..
CF Lee
SS Adames
3B Devers..Posey knows how to communicate properly over dysfunctional Redsox’s who blew it right out the gate signing Bregman to play 2nd and changing their mind to play 3rd just set off the whole fiasco with Devers 3B?DH?1B? he was not thrilled.
RF Ramos
1B Smith
DH Flores
RF Yaz
2B Fitzgerald
C Kinzer
Melvin announcing Devers DH today and will be doing that, plus a little bit if first going forward.
but he is hitting third
ah, I must have missed that, thanks Xoot!
but he is hitting third.
Nice press conference I just watched thanks Baldy!
Yeah he’s batting 3rd and DH for now that’s fine with me.They sound like 1B option for sure down the line some and guys like Snow&Clark around to help out that’s great knowledge to absorb off of those GG guys.. Still interesting how they’re going to use Flores,Smith? Encaracion odd man out?Guess RF occasionally..
yeah, BB’s alert got me to listen in to the presser as well. Baggarly asked two large questions, one for Buster (about Eldrdige) and one for Break Even Greg (who pretended he’d never said any such thing).
Buster said that he’s already talked to Devers about Eldridge. Greg had a well-rehearsed joke ready: in baseball terms, this “opportunity” was a hanging slider. Yeah, Greg, good thing you had Buster in the box.
Lee CF
Adames SS
Devers DH
Ramos LF
Smith 1B
Schmitt 3B
Yaz RF
Fitz 2B
Knizner C
Daniel Johnson sent to Sac.
Move to Trash
the Johnson move, to WillieD’s point. Schmitt ok.
So for now Jerar is backup OF? hmmnn
Think Baggs said Giants minus Hicks were still $18 million below lux tax threshold.
I like both the guys from the Mexican leagues but I have no illusions. Let’s hope the nickname Jerror won’t fit.
uh oh–the Durango Dart is already on his way back to the park. Encarnacion went on the IL.
https://x.com/shaynarubin/status/1935143582413021188?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
Later days Jett Johnson…..DHing Devers is the right thing to do for as long as he wants. Get him comfortable here, then grab a glove. We have guys with gloves. What we don’t have is bats.
Devers mentioned he switching his Giants number to 16 ( his minor league number)since his number 11 Jersey is retired by HOF pitcher Carl Hubbell..
This will make Loo happy the number 16 Jersey was worn for 10 years by Jimmy Ray Hart!
Angel Pagan also wore 16 so their are some talented players karma as well for Raffy starting his career here..
This happened to Hart in the second game of a DH on the day of his ML debut. Despite several excellent seasons, I don’t think he ever fully recovered from it and he drank heavily to numb the pain. Fuck Bob Gibson…
Yeah no doubt Gibson drilling Hart and breaking his clavicle in his freaking rookie season no less was devastating.Think Mays even told him don’t be cocky against him, probably wasn’t but the 1st buzzed him the second ended his season.Yeah Fuck Gibson he would probably throw at his mother. Yeah Hart drank a lot a phrase “Hankering the Hooch” was used growing up in a rural area with not much to do but drink at an early age.Hart preferred drink was IW Harper a quart a day..
barry worming his way into this story is pretty funny. Why is he there? Like, right behind the batting cage?
https://x.com/KNBR/status/1935118487510483241
Riding a bicycle 5 days a week gets kinda boring, apparently…
Encarnacion to the IL for an oblique? That’s a good one.
He may never come back…
Dom gets him in.
Dom strikes again.
Rafa gets him in!
Devers delivers.
That’s got a nice sound to it.
well he can crush mistakes, that’s for sure. 111.
Raffy smoked that double 111 mph bat speed knocking in Adames welcome to SF…
The whole team went to the presser. Love that! Smashed that Double too. Clearly doesn’t know the park yet. Should have been an easy tag up to 3rd on Flyout to deep right.
Hope he doesn’t grow to hate it like Dom probably just did…
My god, the baserunning.
Still retarded on the basepaths.
It’s an epidemic. Every team, every game…
oh man
Astounding. Like little leaguers out there
how in the everliving fuck does Schmitt wander too far off the bag?
the play is literally right in front of him.
He didn’t read Yaz’s hit before getting doubled off, either.
Did the entire roster of Giants miss all of the baserunning classes and drills in Spring Training and down on the farm as the hands came up in the system? If there were any? Keereist almighty, how many massive base-running gaffes are there going to be this season?….
Love that!
he’s safe.
oooo. Denied!
Ramos cannon DP!!!
That throw was perfect on the fly!!And the Porter says not on my train track..
nice play to end the inning and keep it a one run lead. Still ….
Name your choice of best Giant baserunners not named Mays. I don’t mean fastest. I’ve got Kenny Henderson, Maddox, Will Clark, Crawford…
Ruben Rivera…
Hah!!!!
Uh oh, the dreaded bags loaded with less than 2 outs. Can they bring it home, let’s get it done…
Fire Matt Williams
Absolutely! He has the reaction time of a corpse…
Wow.
They had their chances. Get em tomorrow.
WTF!!!! Either Williams needs to go or lee needs to pull his head out of his ass
that’s all on Williams.
Should have gotten at least 1 measly run home. Unbelievable.
Just send Lee and see what happens. You’re going to hope Schmitt makes contact or there’s a wild pitch to plate the tying run? Unfortunately, Devers can’t take every at bat…
How many runs do we not score because of bad baserunning??
you have to send Lee on that fly ball. The guy was running sideways.
this team is fundamentally stupid. They don’t know how to tag up. They don’t know when to run.
Yep. In that situation you’ve got to force the defense to make the play. Timidity is for losers. If that’s Flores on third, OK, don’t go. But, Lee? I wonder if there was a language barrier there with Williams? Better not be. Really tired of giving away runs with stupid baserunning…
1-13 RISP but wtf it was the base running that sucked tonight! And WTF Lee can go there are you kidding me being the tying run and Kwan the worst arm in there outfielders???
Yeah, I can’t believe Lee didn’t try to tag. So frustrating.
So Schmitt goes brain dead on the bags and at home plate, swinging at the usual unhittable outside crap he can’t stop swinging at. Why any pitcher will give him or Adames anything but a diet of low outside crap is beyond me…
Devers is probably thinking holy shit my former team never ran the bases this bad…
For sure!