Giants LFers in 2009 combined for a UZR of +25.3 which is better then the +17.7 Carl Crawford and the rest of the Rays combined for and is infact is the best in all of MLB.

Jason Bay’s 2009 LF UZR of -13.9 is indeed as I stated very simular to Adam Dunn’s 2009 LF UZR of -14.4. In addition Jason Bay’s 2007-2009 LF UZR of -43.8 is also indeed very simular to Adam Dunn’s 2007-2009 LF UZR of -48.5.

According to Fangraphs In 2009 Adam Dunn’s offense added 35.5 runs but his defense gave it all back and then some costing 36.4 runs. Looking again at 2007-2009 Adam Dunn’s offense added 97.4 runs but his defense gave back almost all of it costing 83.2 runs.

Other then being dead wrong about everything, nice post.

Here is something else for you to chew on. Fangraphs finds that Fred Lewis’ produced more wins above replacement level (WAR) in 2008 and 2009 then Adam Dunn did. Fred Lewis provided the Giants with 3.2 WAR over these two years while Adam Dunn only contributed 2.4 WAR to his teams over these same two years.

The Giants are way ahead of most here at “Only Baseball Matters” in that they have come to the realization that thinking “Only Offense Matters” or even “Offense Matters Way More Then Defense” is dead wrong.

The Giants will go hard after Bay it seems, and I’m fine with that. I’d really like to see them go after Figgins as well so we have a lead-off hitter with some OBP. Two new line-up spots with those two would add a lot of runs.

We have the money with $30mm+ coming off the books this year, and even with the raise due to the arbitration guys and Sabean’s stiffs like Roward, there should be the cash available. Payroll of $82mm for last year was right in the middle of the pack and only $51.1mm is committed right now, an insult to a 3 million attendance team that also has its own cable network. Time to step up and get to 9 figures on that payroll. Oh yeah, fuck that stadium debt excuse- its tired, it reduces you revenue sharing expense, and the Yankee’s have one that 5 times a large, and you don’t pay rent so that offsets about $5mm of it.

wait. that didn’t come out right.

If you squint real hard, you can almost see Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” comics scribbling furiously in the underground tunnels of Payphone Park writing up press releases for Beachball Head to read to the media. You just can’t make this shit up:

“One of our goals and priorities this season is to get a more consistent lineup out there on a daily basis, and Freddy does that,” manager Bruce Bochy said during a conference call. “His history is that he plays every day. To have him at the top of your order pretty much every day is going to do a lot for this lineup.”

Well try this on for size.

22-Sep-09 Left knee injury, day-to-day.
07-Sep-09 Missed 19 games (left shoulder injury).
25-Aug-09 Left shoulder injury, 15-day DL.
18-Aug-09 Left shoulder injury, day-to-day.
02-Aug-09 Missed 5 games (sore left knee).
27-Jul-09 Sore left knee, day-to-day.
10-Jul-09 Missed 6 games (back injury).
03-Jul-09 Back injury, day-to-day.

13-Sep-08 Missed 1 game (eye injury).
12-Sep-08 Eye injury, day-to-day.
03-Aug-08 Missed 5 games (back spasms).
28-Jul-08 Back spasms, day-to-day.
14-Apr-08 Missed 1 game (right shoulder injury).
13-Apr-08 Right shoulder injury, day-to-day.
05-Apr-08 Missed 1 game (right shoulder injury).
04-Apr-08 Right shoulder injury, day-to-day.

01-Oct-07 Missed the last 5 games of the regular season (shoulder injury).
26-Sep-07 Shoulder injury, day-to-day.
19-Jun-07 Missed 3 games (flu).
15-Jun-07 Flu, day-to-day.
26-Apr-07 Missed 1 game (eye injury).
25-Apr-07 Eye injury, day-to-day.
18-Apr-07 Missed 1 game (left wrist injury).
17-Apr-07 Left wrist injury, day-to-day.
07-Apr-07 Missed 5 games (sprained knee).
31-Mar-07 Sprained knee, 15-day DL.

24-Jun-05 Missed 1 game (hamstring).
23-Jun-05 Hamstring, day-to-day.
11-Jun-05 Missed 2 games (groin).
08-Jun-05 Groin, day-to-day.

10-Jul-04 Missed 84 games (ankle injury) and optioned to Nashville (AAA).
01-Apr-04 Ankle injury, 15-day DL (retroactive to March 26th).

So like most everybody else who has played this game, the older he has gotten, the more injured he becomes and the fewer games he plays. And when he does play his effectiveness is diminished by injuries. Thats life. No mystery. It is inevitable. And even more pronounced now, that MLB had decided to enact and enforce rules against performance enabling medication.

And don’t underestimate the impact of the removal of wonderdrugs from the scene. Its not that they enhanced the careers of certain players, as much as they prolonged them.

But wait. There’s more!

Sabean said when Sanchez was healthy, “he certainly played up to our scouting reports and expectations. It’s unfortunate he ran into not being able to stay on the field, because he really would have helped the ballclub.”

Nice expectations because this is what Fast Talking Freddie put up for the last couple of years:

271 / .298 /.371 /.669 in 2008 at Pittsburgh in 145 games. Oh yeah. He walked 21 times in 608 fucking plate appearances! While bashing an astronomical 9 jacks.
284 / .295 /.324 /.619 in 2009 with San Francisco 25 games, 108 plate appearances. He did draw 2 walks however.
He put up somewhat better numbers in Pittsburgh earlier in the year, but what the fuck…it doesn’t matter, because he doesnt walk, he has no power and is the emptiest .300 hitter since Edgardo Alfonso.

It gets worse though. Here’s Bochy’s brilliant mind at work. His depth of knowledge of the game of baseball knows no bounds

Manager Bruce Bochy expects Sanchez to hit second or third. If he hits third, one presumes Pablo Sandoval would hit fourth, which means the Giants were not able to find a powerful cleanup hitter via trade or free agency.

Hit third?

“……not able to find a powerful cleanup hitter”

Again.

I look at the Yankees for the last month and I go “Whoa…thats a fucking ballclub that doesn’t have to do everything perfect every time. They just have to be who they are most of the time.”

There is a bigger difference between the Yankees and the Giants than there is between the Giants and their AAA affiliate. And thats what Mr. Sabean has to show for himself after 13 years of steering the USS Cain around and into a bunch of icebergs on a nightly basis, while he’s still trying to find out who stole his fucking strawberries.

This is only 10% true on a Giants team where Bay replaces Carl Crawford in left. In case you didn’t notice, Fred Lewis, Randy Winn, Eugenio Velez, Andres Torres, and John Bowker aren’t Carl Crawford.

Also to compare Bay’s defense to Adam Dunn’s is truly moronic. Jason Bay *IS* Carl Crawford compared to Adam Dunn. Do you watch any of these guys actually play the field?

Even with that being the case Adam Dunn’s offense would still outweight his defence by an exponential factor.

Although that’s certainly to his credit, it’s more this kinda stuff that makes dueling with him problematic at best:

“With snappy retorts like that, no wonder you’ve earned the designation of 4th degree pink belt in ‘Internet Word Warrior’.”

Trust somebody who’s been around awhile, he only jumps people when they’re acting completely stupid. Unfortunately, that particular species is wildly overrepresented on the Internet.

And, alas, in the Giants front office.

Nobody can win against +mia, because +mia apparently has a thing against french people. But +mia, you missed on thing that’s going on in Sabean’s curious little mind – “bay… bay… that rings a bell… pacbell…. bay… my gut is telling me something about a bay….” (all trance-like).

However, somehow, by accident, someone whose name rhymes with “cove” with get $25 million per year.

In any case, you’re exactly right John… my feelings about resigning Sanchez are “boring…..”. It’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s just dull. Uribe may not be the equal of Sanchez, but resigning him might actually be a good idea. Good, as in not dull.

Bay will not play for the Giants unless he gets ridiculous money. Take your pick with our beloved GM – dull or ridiculous. Be a good slogan for next year – “Your 2010 Giants – Dull and Ridiculous!”.

Maybe the Yankees will cut Willie McGee again.