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"When the Giants Come to Town..." is my blog intended to chronicle my thoughts on San Francisco Giants baseball. My special interest is in prospects and the farm system, but of course, will comment on all aspects of the San Francisco Giants. I will also comment on baseball in general, particularly from a fantasy baseball perspective. I hope you will find the site informative, and invite you to join in the discussion.
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- Game Wrap 8/31/2013: D'Backs 4 Giants 3
- Thoughts on the Giants Developing Pitchers
- Down on the Farm: 8/30/2013
- Game Wrap 8/30/2013: Giants 1 D'Backs 0
- Down on the Farm: 8/29/2013
- Down on the Farm: 8/28/2013
- Game Wrap 8/28/2013: Rockies 5 Giants 4
- Down on the Farm: 8/27/2013
- Game Wrap 8/27/2013: Giants 5 Rockies 3
- Down on the Farm: 8/26/2013
- Game Wrap 8/26/2013: Rockies 6 Giants 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/25/2013
- Game Wrap 8/25/2013: Giants 4 Pirates 0
- Down on the Farm: 8/24/2013
- Game Wrap 8/24/2013: Giants 6 Pirates 3
- Hot Tip: Under Armour All-American Game
- Down on the Farm: 8/23/2013
- Game Wrap 8/23/2013: Pirates 3 Giants 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/22/2013
- Game Wrap 8/22/2013: Pirates 10 Giants 5
- Down on the Farm: 8/21/2013
- Game Wrap 8/21/2013: Red Sox 12 Giants 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/20/2013
- Game Wrap 8/20/2013: Giants 3 Red Sox 2
- Down on the Farm: 8/19/2013
- Game Wrap 8/19/2013: Red Sox 7 Giants 0
- Down on the Farm: 8/18/2013
- Game Wrap 8/18/2013: Marlins 6 Giants 5
- Down on the Farm: 8/17/2013
- Game Wrap 8/17/2013: Giants 6 Marlins 4
- Down on the Farm: 8/16/2013
- Game Wrap 8/16/2013: Giants 14 Marlins 10
- Down on the Farm: 8/15/2013
- Game Wrap 8/15/2013: Giants 4 Nationals 3
- Down on the Farm: 8/14/2013
- Game Wrap 8/14/2013: Nationals 6 Giants 5
- Down on the Farm: 8/13/2013
- Game Wrap 8/13/2013: Nationals 4 Giants 2
- Down on the Farm: 8/12/2013
- Scouting the Draft 2014: Carlos Rodon
- Down on the Farm: 8/11/2013
- Game Wrap 8/11/2013: Orioles 10 Giants 2
- Thoughts on Stolen Bases
- Down on the Farm: 8/10/2013
- Game Wrap 8/10/2013: Giants 3 Orioles 2
- Blogger's Note
- Down on the Farm: 8/6/2013
- Game Wrap 8/6/2013: Brewers 3 Giants 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/5/2013
- Game Wrap 8/5/2013: Giants 4 Brewers 2
- Down on the Farm: 8/4/2013
- Game Wrap 8/4/2013: Rays 4 Giants 3
- Down on the Farm: 8/3/2013
- Game Wrap 8/3/2013: Rays 2 Giants 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/2/2013
- Game Wrap 8/2/2013: Giants 4 Rays 1
- Down on the Farm: 8/1/2013
- Game Wrap 8/1/2013: Giants 2 Phillies 1
- Down on the Farm: 7/31/2013
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August
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Bummer...In the meantime, Maybe folks can post and discuus any itneresting Minor League things under this topic/comment?? I need my daily dose of the Duff..:)
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Well I hope bacci stops by with a review of his heckling of Wilson tonight at Rancho Cucamonga.
ReplyDeleteDaily dose of the Duff Man... Duff Man!
got stuck in a ceiling in the valley and couldnt drive out...he only threw 8 pitches and wasnt kept with the other guys in the pen...so it wouldve been a wasted trip
Deletebut i sent him a nasty tweet and reminded him that the bums have yet to give dollar one to brian stowe
bacci
Giants tonight...nothing to see here (h/t to DocB)
ReplyDeleteBelts latest blog post notes some timeline on his grip issue, noting that the Giants have been trying to get him to change his grip and box position for a while now, but that he resisted the change due to his prior success.
ReplyDeletefrom last night, CODY HALL keeps on mowing down anynone and everyone...How did the Tigers let him go? Do we see him in September???
ReplyDeleteChris Gloor continues to pitch well in Richmond....but guess he is just a left handed Chris Heston?
Blackburn with another good game in SJ (6IP 4H 0ER) but out done by a messy inning and the other team's hot shot starter
SteveVA
Cody Hall is going to springboard right past Hembree.
DeleteBlackburn looked good last night, he was mixing his pitches and keeping the Rawhide batters off balance. The loss should be credited to Brock Bond and Ricky O. Brock failed to jump and allowed a line drive to tip off the top of his mitt. Blackburn got the next 2 outs and then induced a high pop up towards first base. Ricky O failed to open his catch the ball as it glanced off his mitt. The runner on second scored and the next batter hit a 2-run homerun. A 2-run rally in the top of the ninth fell short. APGiantsfan
Deletei would suggest that the blog posts on the big club check out for the rest of the season...the team has
ReplyDeletequit on themselves and the fans....and i blame those at the top....so its time for bochy and sabey sabes to retire and move to hawaii....flan can stay, cuz he is a dead head
you learn a lot about a team when it is losing....this current squad has no heart
bacci
Not everybody: Bumgarner called out Pablo big time. Sandoval is very, very bad at baseball at this point. That's the deadwood right there.
DeleteNeed a new plan at 3B.
I said give Chris Dominguez a shot can't hurt right?
Delete*say*
DeleteI would suggest that Naysayers should bring their unwarranted bellyaching and unappreciative behavior to places where they are in agreement, like MCC and MLB.com. More on Naysayers seem to congregate there.
DeleteMaybe the Giants can give Sabean and Bochy anonther two year extension and that could maybe shut them up because then they would be apoplectic and go ballistic!
It was pretty much the current squad that won the WS last year. Give me a break!
DeleteA pretty blah night in the minors on Thursday.....Mitch Lively threw another fairly dominant start in Fresno--I still say there might be something there....and gary BROWN is still struggling mightly......Down in Low A, Chris STRATTON with a "meh" perfromance..6IP and 1ER but 8 hits..I expect more from him....Dowwn in the NWL, Power bat draftees RAGIRA and HORAN had big games..both hitting arround .275 but HRs hard to come by...
ReplyDeleteQuasi decent review of Giants pre-season top 20 by SICKELS over at http://www.minorleagueball.com/2013/8/9/4599628/san-francisco-giants-top-20-2013-pre-season-prospects-in-review
SteveVA
Not a good night in the minors Friday night...Ty BLACH had his worst outing of the year in SJ (6IP 6ER) and ESCOBAR got pummeled in 4IP for Richmond...A bright spot was PAT YOUNG from Villanova drafted this summer...with another good outing in the NWL for S-K(6IP 4H 0R 5K) making it like 15-16 innings without an ER
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It's amazing how butt hurt some of the folks at MCC continue to be over SpeierFuentes breakdown of Belt's grip issues. It's a curious thing when group-think forces tentative knowledge to be out-right rejected and ridiculed. I can only imagine the sort of cognitive dissonance the member (hairball?) put himself into by attacking SpeierFuentes a few hours before Belt himself revealed all the background issues behind his new grip. A click into his profile reveals it took him a couple of days to regain his balance. MCC, the 'Red Guards' of Giants fandom.
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Well, the sky has been falling for them since the mid-2000's, if not since the Sabean era started, and two shiny World Championships have still not convinced them to do the right thing and openly thank Sabean, instead we get jokes about "more on Sabean" and half hearted explanations, so it starts from the top. As I wrote before, the longer MCC continues to treat Sabean and Bochy with disdain, while the Championships come in, the sooner the Sports Nation corporate overlords who only sees the Giants winning and MCC viewing with blinders a great franchise will see the disconnect and how out of it they are and force a change in management.
DeleteYou're right, it does start with the top. Only Grant can take Bochy diligently preparing for a low probability event that might come up two or three times a year in a double switch situation and turn it into a full pitch fork and torch moment, i.e. Hector Sanchez taking a few grounders at 1B in 2012. That was a jump the shark moment for me. But, it's still the go to site for the latest in pop-culture references; maybe they should give up the pretense of being about Giants fandom.
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Not to make this a MCC bash, but . . . I used to visit there a lot more a few years back. Like y'all, I got tired of the oppressive groupthink and smugness. I only occasionally visit it now because some of Grant's posts can still be funny and have some reasonable analysis. Still, most of the posters there are pretty vicious, crabby people who think they are way smarter and adept at baseball analysis than they really are. I mean, who am I to believe understands hitting better, Mike Krukow or some nobody posting on an online blog? And, to be honest, I don't think they even really discuss baseball that much anymore. It's mostly a bunch of in-jokes and pop culture discussion. I enjoy that this site pretty much stays to the discussion of the Giants and baseball. And that it happens in a civil, reasonable, and welcome all viewpoints way.
DeleteThe reasonable posters are drowned out by the bitter ones at MCC. I rec'd SpeierFuentes post, and thought it was the best piece of discussion all year. Now that he has been proven completely correct you would think there would be some apologies... Not bloody likely. SpeierFuentes nailed it. Good to see Belt continue to improve. A poster at the end of our Belt discussion a few days ago said something along the lines of "they don't even like Belt that much, they just want it as their cause" - that was a good point. Belt is shorthand for OBP, and the desperately hanging by a thread belief is that the Greybeards are so stupid the don't understand OBP. That's the argument in a nutshell. Its an extremely weak position to take, but Grant has been taking increasingly weak positions - the pitch-fork on Hector Sanchez might have been the most laughable but don't forget he drove the bus on the Crawford can't hit and isn't a player brigade as well, him and his sidekick. So MCC twists and turns trying to grab Belt as credit as their own (not theirs, actually Doug Mapson's) while trashing Crawford, who has turned into The Dude. Wrong all around, and no credit where its due: the Giants draft and development.
DeleteThe Belt/Crawford stuff became unbearable, the Hector Sanchez stuff was trivial, but the last straw for me was the fact they can't face their own wrong-headed opinions, and double down on bashing the Greybeards.
Great analysis, Shankbone. If you strip away the hundreds of pop-culture references and inside joke comments, I think you have boiled down the dynamic of the "Other Site" and nailed it.
DeleteWould you be interested in Josh Johnson as a 4/5 starter? He just passed through waivers and has always been a good pitcher, but with injury concerns. I feel that as a back of the rotation guy he would really succeed. He is owed 4M this year and then could be tried to be resigned to help next year. Or he could always just be a target for next off season. Bum/Cain/Vogie/Johnson looks pretty good to me.
ReplyDeletePass on Josh Johson righ now. He could be an interesting dumpster dive/reclamation project at some point in the future on a minor league deal, though.
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