Comments on: …. Bad to worse

By: Jay T.

Jay T. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:36:37 +0000

Why not trade Cain and Lincecum? I mean, really, can things get any worse? By the time those guys are surrounded by a good enough line-up to win ball games they’ll be free agents anyway… why waste their value on the current crop of hacks?

What makes following the Giants so hard now is that all of this was so utterly predictable… and avoidable. And yeah, I’m SICK of the blame it Bonds game — last time I checked he didn’t sign all of those god damn contracts, just his own.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:11:17 +0000

Well, that’s a really ballsy thing to do, trading both Cain and Linecum, I mean if the A’s can basically rebuild their farm with Swisher/Haren you guys should get a haul for Cain/Linecum. The real issue is, if you trust Sabean to evaluate prospects in another teams farm. If he can, you should be able to get 8-10 really good/topflight prospects or maybe even more. You could rebuild/reload (whatever) and be competitive in 2-3 years.

And I’m not trying to be disrespectfull, but the Giants are going to be really hamstrung by Zito’s contract. I guess they were working on the Bonds model, pay him lots of money, get lots for production back for your dollar. I really thought Z would figure it out and but unless ST was just a fluke, and unless he somehow get’s those 5mph back on his FB, it’s going to be an even longer season every 5th day.

Should be interesting to see what happens over there on the other side of the Bay.

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:59:36 +0000

Even with the loss. Such foresight by our Front Office, eh? A’s go out and get a defending and aging 3B in Hannahan (sp?) to cover for Chavez. The Giants? Let Feliz go (’cause he sucks), without anyone to really take his place. Nice work.

By: Jay T.

Jay T. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:34:03 +0000

Your 2008 Giants — All Outs, All Season.

By: Jay T.

Jay T. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:39 +0000

I agree that trading Cain or Lincecum is the only chance this franchise has to be any good before 2013… I say wait until the trade deadline and hopefully a contender in desperate need of pitching will give us $1.50 on the dollar for a young stud like Lincecum, which is actually very possible. Sadly, knowing Sabean, he’d probably trade Linecum for some middle tier veterans in attempt to “win” now. You’d have to be a complete retard to not trade Jason Schmidt and then let him just leave via free agency (we had not one but TWO great opportunities to do this) so of course counting on Sabean to do the right thing now is just foolish hope.

By: +mia

+mia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:49:40 +0000

“…but they’ll certainly play better than the Giants crop of players.”

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As will Troop Beverly Hills.

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:01:34 +0000

Watching the A’s play today, I’m colored impressed by their ability and courage to address and accept change. Ryan Sweeney? Jack Hannahan? Keith Foulke? Plus their youth movement with the likes of Buck, Barton, and Suzuki aren’t exactly…well…our players. They may not have great numbers over 162, but they’ll certainly play better than the Giants crop of players.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:06:49 +0000

Right, but they also failed on a number of other fronts, fronts that have been addressed here for the last four years or so. As John noted, can you imagine a team with Bonds backed up by a real star or up-and-comer?

By: marc

marc — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:19:05 +0000

But you can see my point… all things being equal, if you could undo all the deals, the Giants should be able to field a .500 team. I don’t know if they could fill out a 25 man roster, though. Maybe.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:48:28 +0000

Oh, I think that Accardo’s a regular bullpen pitcher at the big league level and I think that he’s around 25. Aardsma may turn out to be nothing, but he’s sticking around and the Giants only gave him 10 2/3 innings to prove himself.

The Giants farmhands? They don’t exist. Sabean does get credit for drafting some decent pitchers, to be fair. But overall? Awful.