The Giants fell behind the Rangers early in Surprise......and kept falling farther behind. Key Lines:
Steven Duggar CF- 2 for 4, SB(2). BA= .286. Duggar is the odds on favorite to be the Giants starting CF on Opening Day. He strengthened those odds with this performance. Oh, and one of his outs was on a line drive to CF and one if his hits was a pop-up to SS that must have gotten lost in the sun.
Brandon Belt 1B- 2 for 3. BA= .308. Belt missed some time with an illness, but got back on track today.
Pablo Sandoval 3B- 1 for 2, BB, HR(1). BA= .167. Pabs hit his dinger from the right side.
Ryan Howard 2B- 2 for 2, 2B, E(3). BA= .400. Howard continues to swing a hot bat and struggle defensively.
Gerardo Parra RF- 2 for 3, HR(2). BA= .375. Parra may be winning the starting RF job because he is performing and nobody else is stepping up.
Chris Stratton RHP- 2 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 7.50. Stratton has a leg up on the 5'th SP job by virtue of being out of options, but he needs to find some consistency.
Ty Blach LHP- 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 3 K's, GO/AO= 3/1. ERA= 4.50. Is Blach becoming a strikeout pitcher? He has 9 K's in 6 IP on the spring.
Travis Bergen LHP- 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 0.00. Rule 5 draftee, Bergen, is stating a strong case for the Giants to keep him on the 25 man roster for the season.
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Madison Bumgarner makes his 3'rd start of the spring against the A's in Scottsdale tomorrow evening.
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The Cuts are staring. RHP Sam Wolff, LHP Conner Menez and LHP Garrett Williams got the ax after the game today. 40 more to go to get to 25.
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Won't miss Wolff. Williams is young. He'll be back.
ReplyDeletePer Stratton, two runs were in the first inning. The third was in the third. He gave up a single, then was immediately pulled and Okert came in and promptly gave up two more runs.
I'm enjoying that Duggar is getting hot. How the team's offense does this season depends on him at the top of the lineup. Would like to see more of him followed with Panik batting second. Almost like Pagan/Scutaro resurrected.
Encouraged reading an article by Pavs about the intriguing pitching prospects they have in camp, it made me look back at your top 50. First mentioned was Shaun Anderson who looks like a nice pickup by Evans in the Nunez trade. This kid Conner Menez is interesting pitching at 3 levels last year, and he's left handed who throws 92-94 mph according to another article, and he's a lifelong Giants fan. It would be cool if he can get a call up this season. Wow, Tyler Beede is off to a fast start throwing 96-98 mph! I've read suggestions that he should be trade bait for a rightfielder. I don't agree if he's throwing this well.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Beede's stuff looks way to good to trade unless the return is a first round pick quality OF with 6 years of control.
DeletePitching and Defense Wins Championships
ReplyDeleteThat has actually been not so true the last few years.
Deleteif Beede pitches well maybe he can fill the Strickland role as hard throwing 7th/8th inning guy - has Beede been moved to Bullpen? or is he still in starter mix, anyone know?
ReplyDeleteHe pitched 3 innings last night.
DeleteNO-pop Parra? The 2 HRs are an outlier -- he has 14 dingers in 740 ABs IN Colorado!
ReplyDeleteIs his D really better than Slater's? He's difinitely lost a step in his 10 years since the days when he used to hit triples.
Unless he's a recent successful post graduate of the hit-em-hard-hit-em-up launch-angle crowd, he's still Geraldo Parra and he'll NOT hit double digit HRs playing half his games at Oracle where he has ONE HR in 217 PAs.
Parra will not be a 2 WAR player but could still be an upgrade from last year for SF! But why? He'll have nO effect on the standings.
Hopefully replace Pomeranz as a SP.............California Dreaming: Beede, Stratton, Rodriguez, Suarez entrench themselves as Starting Pitchers!
ReplyDelete#1 Why the Giants should have signed Bryce Harper:
ReplyDeleteThe Bonds era was successful, the Posey era more so, but who is the face of the next era? Might he have signed with Philadelphia when for $20M on top of $330M, "just" 6% more, was that the face? And Bart and Ramos and Luciano will add to Harper for the 3rd era as Belt and Crawford and Sandoval added to Posey for the 2nd?
#2 Why the Giants should not have signed Bryce Harper:
Harper's not Bonds or Posey.
This all ignores the pitching the Giants had for the Posey era. But, barring divine intervention, Buster's glory is behind.
Of course, it could happen, and that's why we're fans!
If you sign a player for 13 years/$300+ M, you have to think he's one of the top 5 players of his generation. I like Bryce Harper a lot, but I'm not quite convinced he is THAT player.
DeleteAfter getting rubber hosed by the A's, thinking things couldn't get worse, we hav no Doc Friday morning!
ReplyDeleteWe pray you are well, it's a bleak day without our cup of coffee!
Sorry, I have been working like a fiend. After the game was over, I was too tired to even see straight and just went to bed. Feel rested this AM.
DeletePlus, I have today plus weekend for a little R&R.
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