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Another gem by Cy tonight and more pop from Bengie. Giants on a nice little roll now.
I think it is safe to say.
LinCycum is officially BACK!
And I really think this team can make noise!
Still psyched about them!
Another gem by Cy tonight and more pop from Bengie. Giants on a nice little roll now.
The Giants desperately need at least one more quality bat!!!! Someone like a 35HR and 100 RBI player. I think they are one player away from serious competition with LAD for the spot in October.
And that identity isnt Benji Molina...
Like Sir Barry after a 2 year 'recharge'?
His 'D' can't be worse than Fred's...
In all seriousness, the Giants are one good bat from being awesome. 20HR/90RBI annually would be enough I think.
With the Giants awesome staff you just need an anchor for the lineup. Not a monster.
The monsters are in the pitching staff.
Just an identity from the lineup.
And that identity isnt Benji Molina...
I think that Dunn would have been a nice addition. yes, his defense is not great but I do not think that he is that super horrible, he is just horrible.. but if you have 1-2 weak defensive players, you want them to be Dunns, not Uribes. Put him behind 2 solid contact hitters and he will give you 100 RBIs even in that ballpark ... guaranteed. And he was not very expensive.
We already have the fast guy.
His name is Emmanuel Burriss.
The guy hit 350 in spring training and some 280 in his time last year, and he's still extremely young! He WILL improve!
When you throw out all the young players this team is, they will have growing pains.
Once Manny Burriss regains his confidence he will hit a solid 280 and steal some 30 bags,
He is struggling now, but he is going to be fine.
Then you have Ishikawa who can be a 20HR/85 RBI solid first baseman.
Pablo Sandoval. A hitting machine. And not looking terrible at 3rd. I went to the non TV game on Saturday and he made an AMAZING play. Dove and snagged the ball on the line, threw a BULLET from his knees and nailed the runner by a half step.
Shierholtz can hit.
Then you have all the amazing talent in the minors.
We can't sacrifice Cain or Sanchez for a quick fix to make a run at the NL West.
We're great in the lng run. The sooner the success the better, but you cannot sacrifice it for an insta-repair.
Just ask the Sacramento Kings.
The Giants might face a squirrelly problem next offseason, having to make a critical decision on free-agent-to-be Bengie Molina without knowing if 2008 first-round draft pick Buster Posey is ready to replace him.
Being out on the East Coast, I don't get to see many of the games. I follow online now and then but mainly follow the team through box scores and write ups on ESPN. It seems to me that Molina is somewhat of a leader on this team and is great with the pitching staff. Am I wrong? Is he dispensable? I know that Posey is supposed to be a stud, but I can't imagine how bad offensively we'd be without Bengie Molina. Do the Giants have the $ to hold on to Molina and bring Posey along slowly and start a platoon until Posey is 100% ready?
Barry Zito has shown me more in the last 27 innings than he has his entire Giants career.
Did you see him get ANGRY when Boch was gonna yank him? Zito was pissed, and he made himself stay in the game.
That was more passion from him than he has shown in his past two years COMBINED.
That is very probably the very first positive comment I have given him since my original "OMG WE SIGNED HIM!" post.
Keep it up Barry.
And it needs to be said.
Zito has looked good since adopting Sandoval as his personal catcher.
Which then leads to me thinking that Sandoval is erfect no mater where he plays,
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I think the ship has sailed on Lewis.
He cannot field at all, only has decent speed, zero power, and is streaky.
And he's some 28.
Unfortunately our team doesn't have faith in Schierholtz, because I am pretty much 100% sure he could do better than Freddie is doing nowadays.