The Giants played a crisp game to gain their first win of spring training. Key Lines:
Hamlett Marte, C- 1 for 2, 3B. BA= .500. Minor league FA with an uneven minor league resume. Has hit well at times. His triple in this game drove in a run and he then scored on a double by Zach Green.
Anthony Garcia DH- 1 for 2, HR(1). BA= .222. LF is probably Mac's to lose, but he's still batting .000 while Garcia gets his first dinger.
Dereck Rodriguez, RHP- 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K. ERA= 5.40. Not a great line but the best by a SP this spring.
Travis Bergen LHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K. 0.00. Travis Bergen is the Giants antidote for Bryce Harper signing with the Dodgers.
Jose Lopez RHP- 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 0.00. Waiver wire pickup when the Reds tried to sneak him through. Lopez is a sleeper who has a 3.63 career ERA in the minors and a 4.47 ERA in AAA last year.
Shaun Anderson RHP- 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, GO/AO= 4/1. The first batter Anderson faced reached on a throwing error by Ryan Howard. 2 singles and a groundout resulted in 2 unearned runs. He also gave up a double in the 9'th to Conner Joe but got 3 outs on a K, pop up and groundout.
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Giants are back in Scottsdale tomorrow facing the Royals with Jeff Samardzija making his spring debut and Andrew Suarez also slated to pitch.
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After 4 games and 16 runs scored there could be rumbling about the offense but Bochy is not looking at regular season offense with potential starters having so few ABs: Williamson, Slater, and Shaw 6, Panik 5, Longoria 3, Belt and Crawford 2.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice to see Mac (and Ferguson) hitting the ball, though.
OTOH, Maybin, Parra, Solano, A. Garcia, Avelino, and Alberto are 0-34. Mac and Ferguson are 0-12. Adding Craw (0-2), through 4 games 9 players are hitless at 0-48.
Doesn't the old adage go something like the hitters start ahead of the pitchers?
Giants are lucky there have been other players in the first 4 games!
Market re-set for Harper - now he'll need 10 years $330 million win the title of 'richest contract in overall terms AND AAV' - maybe the Giants should pay it - everyone else is off the books after 2021 so Zaidi can certainly rebuild around that - and it would seem to give the Giants the best lineup possible in 2019. And after Trout comes out in FA $33mil AAV will seem normal. Nice to see Solarte hit the ball hard, is he a candidate for LF in case Mac never wakes up? Duggar - Harper - Posey - Belt - Longoria - Crawford - Williamson - Panik and the pitching looks pretty deep - both SP and bullpen.
ReplyDeleteIF Giants sign Harper, will NL West be the most complete although not the best?
ReplyDeleteAL East probably has the best teams. Again. No?