Sunday, March 6, 2011

Spring Training Game Wrap: A's 6 Giants 0

Maybe the Giants were tired out from their split-squad DH yesterday. They turned in a flat performance and were never really in this game. Key lines:

Nothing of note on offense. The Giants managed just 6 scattered hits. Nobody had more than 1.

Madison Bumgarner- 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K, GO/AO= 6/2. The leadoff batter, Coco Crisp reached base on a throwing error by 3B Mark DeRosa. The next two batters singled to produce a run. Bum then got Josh Willingham to ground into a DP. All that took just 4 pitches. Bumgarner cruised the rest of the assinment. Another example of hanging tough and pitching out of jams for the young LHP.

Ramon Ramirez- 1.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 2 K's. Ramirez pitched the 4'th inning without incident but couldn't get out of the 5'th as he was basically throwing batting practice. This is the one arbitration eligible tender I wasn't too sure about. The Giants are paying Ramirez a fairly hefty salary for basically a fungible middle reliever commodity. Chris Ray signed a minor league deal with Seattle and I think he has more upside than Ramirez. Or, they could have signed any one of several other equal relievers on minor league deals.

Well, that's it for this game. Not much of a game, huh?

Timmy makes his third spring start tomorrow against Seattle in Scottsdale. Brian Wilson is scheduled to make his spring debut too!

4 comments:

  1. I think Ramirez is better than Ray. If you look at his stats with KC and Boston, in 08 and 09 he had an ERA under 3 and this is facing the America League powerhouses in that hitter friendly ballpark. And last year, his overall era was under 3.

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  2. Ramirez is probably more of a sure thing, but he's a flyball pitcher with pedestrian K and BB numbers. Ray had two seasons of K/9>9 with Baltimore before he had TJ. Of course there's no guarantee it will ever come back, but for the difference in cost, I take a chance on him vs Ramirez not regressing.

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  3. rowand sux and he needs to be traded to the phillies

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  4. Bacci,

    We all assume the Phillies would welcome Rowand with open arms. I'm sure they have their scouts looking at him too. They didn't get to be one of the top teams in baseball by accident.

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