#14 Jesus Galindo, OF. 5'11", 175 lbs. BD: 8/23/1990. B-S, T-R.
Short Season: .276/.353/.364, 9 2B, 3 3B, 2 HR, 47 SB, 8 CS, 25 BB, 46 K in 239 AB.
Jesus Galindo is a guy who spent 2 seasons in the DSL drawing a lot of walks and stealing a lot of bases, but struggling to keep his BA above .220. I guess you can walk off the island after all! The Giants surprisingly had him skip the Arizona League and start his USA experience in Salem-Keizer where he again struggled with his BA, hitting .212 in June. Then, he caught fire hitting .317 in July and .287 in August while continuing to maintain good walk rates.
Not only is he extremely fast, he is a hyperaggressive basestealer with his S-K manager Tom Treblehorn comparing him to Ricky Henderson in that regard. The Giants have had several guys like this in the system before, Marcus Sanders, Emmanuel Burriss, Antoan Richardson to name 3. They have all busted for one reason or another, mostly because they get overpowered at higher levels. Still, it's nice to dream about a future leadoff batter who makes drawing walks and getting on base a priority and then drives other teams crazy with blazing speed on the basepaths. Not sure if we'll see him in Augusta or SJ next season, but Jesus Galindo has made himself a prospect to watch. Gary Brown is the CF/leadoff batter of the future, but it's never a bad thing to have a great backup plan.
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The Ricky Henderson comparison sticks with me, coming from who it comes from. Galindo is the subject of much talk on MCC's community prospects right now, I think I've exhausted my comments on his behalf. I'm psyched to have the depth of him, Shawn Payne and Kentrell Hill. This is the type of system we are building - depth up the middle. We have guys going into AA and AAA in Brown and Pegs, but we also have some alternatives. That is the key to having a good system - depth and alternatives.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time the Giants were a fast team. Maybe never in their history. This is obviously something they have been trying to do for a while. Easy to say, hard to do.
For some reason I am not too excited about Galindo. I just feel he willl not hit at the higher levels and at best could be a pinch runner. I would love to be wrong on this one and hope he sticks unlike Darren Ford. It is nice to have thst much speed but our outfield is very crowded and unless he can hit then it doesn't maje sense. He will make a good plan B if Brown or Peguero get traded. I think that Carlos Willoughby could be more desirable because he has that speed and plays an infield position.
ReplyDeleteWillougby is almost a full 2 years older than Galindo. Maybe that's a factor, maybe not. They can both take a walk and otherwise struggle a bit at the plate.
ReplyDeleteI like Galindo's speed and ability to take a walk. I'm not yet sure he's going to hit enough. Right now, he's a guy to watch who has some possibilities.
I have been voting on the Community Prospect polls on MCC. I haven't been reading the discussions because they make me to angry. The whole site is rapidly becoming a parody of itself. Did you see Grant's latest post or link or whatever? I sounds like even his dittoheads over there are getting tired of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to say, DrB, that your experience with MCC is very like mine. For a long time I checked in with MCC a few times each day, because I liked its fits of sabermetric hardheadedness. Many of the Fanposts and Fanshots remain worthwhile in this respect. Of late, for me, the whining, invective, and masochistic snideness in the longer pieces have irked me so much that I can't stand to read the overabundant comments in their threads. Even the amusing Grant seems to have surrendered to a sort of eastern-European posturing, with irony in a minor key and a worldweary half-smile. Maybe when the season starts, things will improve. I hope so. I'm very glad to have this site and OGC to read for rational appraisal based on factual evidence.
ReplyDeleteCampanari had my favorite response in the fanposts in the last month to a mopey "fan" - here is his last sentence - "you have every reason to be sad and fearful, but this is regardless of how the baseball season turns out."
ReplyDeleteThat cracked me up big time.
I try to participate, but I really don't like tearing up our prospects. Pan/Orgone Donor has gone AWOL, and his posts were a big time breath of fresh air there.
I've skipped the front section for the most part for a while. Irony and silly metaphors is no way to go through life, son. Especially when it is disguised by absolute sabermetric dogma hidden behind a goofy "I don't really understand stats much" facade. The pressure of a daily paid requirement to put up content is hard. The French Surrender Monkey style of bag on the players, front office and ownership all day every day is pretty much old hat now.
I stopped going regularly to MCC for years now for the exact same reason. The fanshots, particularly the ones about prospects, is all that I can recommend. But I find the other stuff annoying, so I rarely go even there nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI have haters there, but that's OK, because I don't really care anymore. As DrB was noting on another post of his here recently (about Schierholtz), they think that they were right when the discussion ends, but when they are shown by events and history to be wrong, they are on to their next rant/hate.
I tried to point out, frequently, that during the 2008 to present period, they have been dooming and glooming about the Giants while my vision and expectations for the Giants have been much more accurate than their vision. They never have an answer to that other than "but ... here's another thing I hate about Sabean."
That's why I posted on there that they don't deserve to enjoy the World Championship, should it happen (I posted this after Giants won NL title), unless they thank Sabean for getting us there. I was villified for that, but that's OK, I still feel the same way, I still don't understand how they can enjoy a World Championship that most of them think was by luck - "Yeah, we be lucky!" - and I find it insulting to the players who delivered for us during that great run.
The negativity and such is actually part of the DNA of MCC and its owner, Grant. He was part of the group of people on USENET in the late 90's and early 2000's, before the internet became the place to congregate and discuss things. Saddest bunch of people you could ever meet, they were like that character in that cartoon of the 70's, Gulliver's Travels, whose catchphrase moan was, "It'll never work!!!" I remember one of the regulars there was interviewed by Chron (supposedly Schulman posted on USENET, but I could never figure out if it was really him or some guy pretending to be him), Richard B or something like that, in around 2008-9, and he was so down on the team when, really, a new day was dawning.
I remember posting on there my analysis of the 2003 season, and I felt that enough changes were made that the Giants would have a pretty good season, despite losing Kent, and I was told, basically, nice enthusiasm but not going to happen, without much analysis as to WHY I was wrong, I found it pretty patronizing, frankly.
So MCC has that DNA (his hero, or godfather to MCC, was this guy who used to post things under "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!", who was a doom and gloomer too) from USENET that was always an underlying thread to his posts there, which I noticed behind the snark, but which didn't fully bloom until the Giants started losing/rebuilding.
DrB mentioned the snarkiness that he noticed in another writer and I thought I would follow up on that too (sorry been sick, still sick, but finally taking sick day...).
ReplyDeleteThat DNA came from Bill James and I consider it a form of hero worship where imitation is the sincerest form of compliment. His abstracts in the 80's were great for his insight and his snarks were great.
Unfortunately, that's because he's a good writer and more importantly, a good researcher and analyst. Snarkiness don't really work when the person is writing on something he doesn't really know or understand. It also don't work when you are too dense to realize that you are wrong, no matter how much you know or understand.
So people imitate Bill James all the time, when they should really just be themselves. They flatter themselves thinking that imitating him would bring them closer to his standards. He's an original and, as the saying goes, they broke the mode.
But I think we are doomed to endure more of this in the future, as that seems to be a popular way to communicate on the internet.
Back to Galindo.
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting. As DrB noted, Sabean has been trying to find guys like Galindo in the past. That harks back to my comment about Sabean's strategy that he noted long ago, as he said that he thought the era of the big bopper was going to end soon and thus he was focusing on pitching, fielding, and team speed. (He was off a bit, that was early 2000's and it didn't end until maybe 2008.)
Both are a little too old to be a great prospect, but Galindo being 2 years younger helps to keep our hopes alive whereas Willoughby is probably not going to make it (I don't like negatives either Shankbone, but he's old for Sally League for good prospects and didn't do particularly well there still). If he climbs up the system one level per year, he could reach the majors when he turns 24-25, which would be good. Galindo do look very interesting with his speed and on-base ability.
OGC - being sick sucks. I'm all for constructive criticism, I just don't like tearing a guy down with all the negatives of his game instead of what they do well. On reflection, Galindo is a little older than we would ideally want, I hope they fast track him to SJ, but we are getting into a logjam here with all these CF speedy types. But he has demonstrated a skill, I think he owns that skill, and if he can work on batting to go with the walks, he's a very interesting prospect.
ReplyDeleteI like to call the usenet and mcc discussions that you've participated in "the wars". I know, its polite to call them discussions. All I can say is while I find sabermetrics and stats in general fascinating and fun to analyze, at the end of the day I want to check out and root for my team and its players. Now once in a while Sabey Sabes throws me a bone I can't swallow on that front, but for the most part in the past few years especially its been easy street on that front.
Same with this WAR analysis stuff. Its fun to go look at it later as a review exercise, but a general rule is if you have good players, the WAR will take care of itself. Who gets good players? Scouts, and luck. Who develops players? Well, these seed spitting greybeards who just DON'T GET stats! I find WAR fitting into the same boat as OBP, something that gets played up by Moneyball into an obsession. Yes its good to get undervalued players, but there's more than one way to carve that up, unlike what the conventional wisdom on the interwebs says.
Well, I don't want to turn this into a vendetta against the people with a vendetta. OK to vent once in awhile though. I just thought that last post on MCC about the 2013 FA's was way over the top and really inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty amazed you guys can find ANY real Giants baseball content on McC. I like snark, probably more than the next guy. But the entire comments section is built like a Byzantine house of cards, with layer upon layer inside joke, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, potty humor filled torts and retorts, assembled with care, to provide an texture of casual apathy revealing the writer is SOOOO above it all.
ReplyDeleteHow you guys have the patience to attempt to filter through that crap, let alone try and post reasonable comments to that crew, is beyond me.
Grant's style was fun, inventive and playful. But, whoever said that he has become a parody of himself is dead on there.
Sorry guys but Galindo strikes out too much and doesn't walk enough.
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