giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com - 6/27/2009
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We're just a few days away from July, and about 5 weeks from the MLB , non-waiver trade deadline. The Giants have been discussed a lot over recent weeks, as they try to find another bat to help their below-average offense, but I think that they need more than just one stick. Sure, bringing in a ...
Are the Giants This Good?
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/30/2009 — There was no way that anyone could have predicted that the National League West would have the three best teams in the National League. The Dodgers have had the best record in the National League (and probably all of baseball) since April. The Rockies have surged since firing Clint Hurdle and ...
Giants First Half Review - Part II
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/17/2009 — Even though they sit atop the NL Wild Card standings and carry the second best record in the National league as the second half kicks off on Thursday, the Giants still have some issues that need to be addressed if they're serious about making a real run for the postseason. Last post we broke ...
Giants Keep On Rolling
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — The stretch of baseball that the Giants have put together since late May up to now (July 1st) is probably the best 6 weeks of ball the Giants have played since 2004. After winning the first two games of their 4-game set with St. Louis on Monday and Tuesday, the Giants upped their record to ...
Is Matt Holliday the answer to the Giants’ offensive woes?
scoresreport.com 6/24/2009 —
It’s been five years since the San Francisco Giants have made a postseason appearance, so you’ll have to pardon their fans if they’re overly optimistic about the chances of their club possibly making the playoffs this year despite a lineup that often employs Edgar Renteria as its two-hole ...
San Francisco Giants Draft Preview, Part V: Hitters
mccoveychronicles.com 6/9/2009 — It's been about twelve hours since anyone's linked to this thread . This time the point isn't to highlight how mortified a lot of us were at the thought of another high school pitcher, but rather to show how hitter goofy most of us were just two ...
Sachez Bounced to Bullpen
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — It's been under consideration for the better part of a month now, and on Sunday evening in Milwaukee, Bruce Bochy finally made the decision. Jonathan Sanchez is temporarily out of the Giants' rotation, and will pitch in relief for the time-being. Filling in for Sanchez on Sunday was 26 year-old ...
Giants First Half Review - Part One
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — With the first half of the Major League Baseball season completed, and the all-stars of baseball all gathered in St. Louis for tonight's mid-summer classic, I figured today would be a good day to break down the Giants first half. So in the first part of review, we'll take a look at what went ...
Salvation in sight for San Francisco
thegoodpoint.com 7/27/2009 — Life has been good for the San Francisco Giants. At the All-Star break, the Giants led the National League Wild Card standings by two games with a record of 49-39. Right-hander Tim Lincecum was the NL starter at the All-Star Game and is the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner....
Barry Zito: Worst Pitcher Contract Ever?
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 7/17/2009 — When the Giants signed Barry Zito in 2006, they thought they had just locked up their ace for the next seven years. The team believed that Zito had the goods to lead the Giants in the post Barry Bonds era by consistently taking the ball every fifth ...
Brewers 7, Giants 6 —
NYT > Baseball 6/28/2009
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer in the sixth and then knocked in the winning run as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied with three runs in the ninth for a wild 7-6 win over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.