Yankees... yuck.. Phillies... yuck.. Dodgers... yuck.. Angels... yuck..
I want a Phillies/Angels series because that's what ESPN
doesn't want. And because Dodgers and Yankees are major yuck yuck.
I think its time to make a uber mega awesome post of awesomeness all about the uber mega Gigantes!!!! Woooo.
So 2009 was uber suck suck... In the end, poor management and tons of injury's took us out of the playoffs and some uber mega yuck yuck hitting but injury's and management mostly kept us out. Bochy did not want bunt the ball at all so we lost out on tons of runs... That and we had no plate discipline at all...
In the end our dumb management decided Sabean and Bochy should come back for 2 years and a option for a third. But knowing how much we love bad coaching and paying over the hill veterans premium salaries they will get the third year without a second thought. The end of the season conference was very disappointing because they seem to be aiming for 88 wins again not going all out to put on a team to win the World Series which is completely possible with the best pitching in baseball and being one of the richer teams in the league. But all our management cares about is fans showing up at the stadium and not winning.
Hopefully it will all change with some acquisitions and some of our cancers on our team leaving. First things first is not to resign Molina. The dude wants 2-4 years which is ridiculous with Posey who is considered the Lincecum of catching. (Both won the Golden Spike award.) The kid is a human howitzer. Didn't show any great hitting at the major league level but only had 17 AB's. Which is not enough of a sample size... But you just can't resign Molina, he is slower then molasses, has the plate discipline of a 9 year old kid with ADD high on meth. If Posey isn't ready, have Whiteside come in and play catcher. He also has a cannon of an arm and calls an amazing game. (Was a HUGE factor at turning Zito around.. Also called Sanchez's no hitter.) His hitting is the downside but its serviceable for a #8.
Our outfield is a complete mess with a dumb vet and rookies who are not completely proven. We saw what Schierholtz has but overall is only a good #4. Does have pop in his bat (10-15 HR's a year) and plays RF better then anyone else I've ever seen here. He steals doubles away from
fast runners with a arm just as good as Francoeurs. Fred Lewis who has amazing speed, very good pop but needs to learn the strike zone; Plagued with bad defense and does have a questionable foot. Velez (can also play 2B) who is much like Lewis, but he defiantly showed how hot he can get. He reminds me a lot of Winn, other then not being a good fielder but he is defiantly improving dramatically. When he is hot he really drives the ball and showed that he can hit the ball as far as anyone. (Think 15 home runs over a full season, possibly in the range of 17-20 if he learns the strike zone better.) But he has improved to the point where he will draw a walk and then steal 2B. And then we have Andres Torress who is crazy crazy fast, even though he is on the wrong side of 30 he is very serviceable and is an amazing fielder and is a patient hitter but doesn't hit good enough to be a everyday player.
Rowand is a lost cause and has grown to be a cry baby who the team doesn't want anymore. He is likely to be traded away and one of the possibilities is a straight up trade (we will have to eat 3 years of his salary) between us and the Cubs for Milton Bradly.
Randy Winn will not be returning next year being a free agent and the Giants moving on to bigger better things. He stunk up this year and we didn't trade him away while he was good.
The last player is John Bowker who has servicable defense with average speed. Needs to learn how to connect the bat and ball more often but he has great power and if he can learn to connect more he is defiantly capable of 20-25 home runs. He hit .342 21 HRs 83 RBI's in 366 AB's in AAA.
Us resigning Freddy Sanchez is very likely but hopefully his off season recovery from surgery is successful and can come back and do his thing if and when he returns next year. And hopefully we will resign Uribe because he was one of the best hitters in all of baseball in September... He absolutely killed the ball and really showed off how much power he has. He will likely return and be our utility guy who will play 3B, SS and 2B. 3-450 AB's likely and if he does anything like he did this year he will hit close to 20 HR's. I may be over evaluating it though which is likely but I have learned to love the guy.
Sandoval, there is nothing I can say about him. He hit .330 with 25 HR's and 90 RBI's in his first full season with a bad hamstring most of it. Where looking at 35+ HR's 100+ RBI's next season being healthy. The kid was completely jiffed out of a All-Star spot this season being the best overall 3B in the first half. And even after that, he didn't strike out so much *cough* Reynolds *cough* and was able to have the 2nd best AVG in the NL. Having no protection in the lineup, that's seriously impressive. He is our teams only seriously dangerous hitter.
The only other guy I want to talk about is Penny. I want him to return, he was able to show off that he is still a good pitcher when healthy and if he comes back and does anything close to what he did here then having our starting 5 looking like this...
Lincecum, Zito, Cain, Sanchez, Penny (or Bumgarner) will only further proof that we can win a 5 or 7 game series.
I'll talk trades after its all done.. I need to stop thinking now so I will be able to sleep.
EDIT: HOLYWALLOFTEXT
Sorry, I completely lost track in the middle of my baseball rant that I was floating around my head for about a month. I did it all off the top of my head other then looking up Bowkers stats.. And yes I had Sandovals stats memorized. XD
At least we still got Neal and Crawford.
