Trade rumors are heating up and, as expected, the Giants are a big part of them. The team desperately needs offense, knows it, and is willing to go out and get it. The Jeff Keppinger trade last week was a nice one. A good player, upgrading a position of need, offensively and defensively, and for a pair of prospects with much higher potential than production. But the Giants need more offense. And supposedly, a couple of prospects are off-limits. One shouldn’t be. Look, ...
Scouting Report: San Jose Giants vs. Inland Empire 66ers, July 16 The San Jose Giants extended their winning streak to 11 games in a 9-4 victory over Inland Empire Saturday night. (They lost their next two games. Boo.) I scouted the Giants starting pitcher Zack Wheeler, reliever Ari Ronick, and four hitters: outfielders Jarrett Parker and Gary Brown, catcher Tommy Joseph, and shortstop Ehire Adrianza. For Wheeler and Ronick, I didn't bother tracking their ...
San Rafael considers minor league ballpark plan. That's what I saw on the KTVU morning news ticker this morning. Don't judge me--I was up that early to go to my other job, teaching children how to swim. Several scenarios ran through my mind when I saw that blurb. Was it a possible site for the San Jose Giants to move if the A's move to the South Bay goes through? What about the former Golden Baseball League (now part of the North American League) putting a team there? ...
Football is locked out. There’s no resolution in sight after months of negotiation. And now, basketball has locked out, and the pessimistic say that they could lose their next season after having a championship where more people were rooting ‘against’ a team than for one. Two of America’s five major sports are out committing a level of fan suicide, a third (hockey) is still recovering from its last work stoppage, and the fourth is still just soccer. It’s ...
So the Giants went ‘Off the Board’ on Monday, taking a first round shortstop that no one had going in the first round. He was so unknown, MLB.com didn’t have a scouting report for him, the only such feat for any of the Top 30 picks. The surprising pick left Giants fans stunned, angry and looking for excuses. A look at a few blogs are already speculating reasons for such an unusual change in strategy. Don’t. There wasn’t. The ‘Change in Strategy’ theory seems to ...
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