All full season leagues were idle as usual on Mondays.
ACL: Giants defeated the Royals 5-1.
Adrian Sugastey C(rehab)- 1 for 3, HR(1), BB. BA= .375.
Yulian Barreto 2B(18 yo)- 2 for 4. BA= .242.
Oliver Tejada LF(19 yo)- 3 for 4, 2B, 3B, HR(1). BA= .309.
Gregory Santos RHP(rehab)- 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K. ERA= 3.00.
Marlon Franco RHP(23 yo)- 4.2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 10 K's. ERA= 5.56.
Samir Chires RHP(22 yo)- 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 2.25.
Melvin Pineda RHP(22 yo)- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 2.87.
Oliver Tejada put up some nice numbers as a 17 yo in the DSL in 2024. His numbers were not as impressive, but not terrible in the ACL last season. He is trying to improve on them this year with success so far. He fell a single short of a cycle in this game.
DSL: Angels topped Giants Black 6-5.
DJean Macares CF(18 yo)- 2 for 4, 2B, 3B, BB. BA= .228.
Franco Willias LF(21 yo)- 3 for 5, 2B, 2 SB(7). BA= .298.
Alexander Camacaro 2B(18 yo)- 2 for 4, 2B, SB(6). BA= .267.
Boris Sarduy 1B(19 yo)- 2 for 4. BA= .368.
Lender Bracho RHP(21 yo)- 2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 2.70.
DSL: Cubs Red shut out Giants Orange 4-0(7 innings).
Mario Gonzalez RHP(19 yo)- 3.2 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 5 K's. ERA= 4.85.
The Rafael Devers Incident, as it will now be forever known, exploded across baseball-oriented social media today and with a vengeance. Just my opinion, but the concern of commentators and the fury of fans is not so much on whether Devers or Tony Vitello are more to blame as that it looks and feels like a symptom of an organization is disarray on multiple levels. Yes, Devers has looked overweight and out of shape all season. While he has performed well at times, he has not been consistent and tends to disappear when the game is on the line. Tony Vitello makes head scratching decisions almost every game, looks like a deer in the headlights, a lot like I imagine I would look if I was cosplaying as manager in the dugout, and has baffling explanations in the postgame pressers. So yes, the fans have had it with both of them but that begs the question of why they are wearing Giants uniforms in the first place which leads directly to Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey and he seems to be in hiding somewhere. The first step in fixing this is for someone, and I think it needs to be Posey, to step up and at least try to take charge and take responsibility and articulate what he thinks went wrong and what needs to be done to right the ship. In other words, his equivalent of Brian Sabean's "I'm not an idiot" moment. If he isn't able to do that, he should resign and immediately.
Posey represents management, a face and voice of the Giants. He needs to step up, provide leadership, policy direction, and clarity to this issue. Not avoiding it, and allowing players, coaches, and everyone associated with team to suffer the storm and dissolve into factions.
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I don't think Posey can even do much in the way of damage control at this point. The fact that Posey has been radio silent about this is not a good sign. Now that you're a national embarrassment, Greg Johnson is likely going to be the one that is going to be forced to try to restore order and he may now be having to take phone calls from Manfred about this.
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