Here’s Brian Sabean, interviewed in some Barry Zito puff piece, showing us his Captain Queeg side once again:
…. “We never asked him to be the savior coming over here, but that was the price of doing business,” Giants General Manager Brian Sabean said. “As much as people think we overpaid, there was another team, in the American League, that offered more.”
That team has never been identified….
Just like how the team knew that Freddie Sanchez would be worthless for the first $3 million dollars of his contract, and they used that knowledge to get a better deal from Uribe. Right.
On and on, Brian Sabean demonstrates his failings, his inability to accept responsibility for his terrible decisions, his unwillingness to learn from his mistakes and change with the times, his inflexibility when evaluating talent. And most importantly, he demonstrates how insecure he really is, how much he reads what people say and write about him and how he runs the Giants. Virtually everything he says is a response to something that is being said about him. And let’s not forget the muzzling of everyone who covers the Giants, from KNBR to Kruk and Kuip, nary a negative word is allowed to permeate the rarified air surrounding the team.
This is your San Francisco Giants General Manager.
UPDATE: Barry Zito continues to climb the charts, running his record to 5-0, pitching into the eighth and allowing but one run. Sergio Romo came in with the bases loaded and Hanley Ramirez at the plate, and gave up ZERO runs! Another series win for the surprising 16-10 Giants, who continue to defy Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy’s efforts to derail the season.
Sounds like DeRosa is going to have surgery some time this season. Can Sabean pick ‘em or can he pick ‘em? It used to just be geriatric cases but now he’s signing cripples. When is Wheelchair Appreciation Night?
And Not Even A Reach-around
Anybody know this guy?
BA- .300
OBP .340
SLG .489
OPS .829 – 2010 Salary $455,000
Anybody know this guy too?
BA- .194
OBP .279
SLG .258
OPS .537 – 2010 Salary $6,000,000
Here’s a hint from ESPN:
And from the fishwrap blog in San Jose:
Fred Lewis went 2 for 5 last night against Boston knocking John Lackey around twice in the process. Three timezones away, Mark DeRosa was streaming thoughts about soul searching his lack of performance and how difficult it was for him to essentially be shitting the bed in spite of enjoying his new $ Twelve Million Fucking Dollar Contract.
No. Nobody saw this coming. Letting the teams second best OPS guy from last year, (and the one guy Bonds said in 07 had the best chance of anybody on the roster to be a successful Major League Hitter if the team would be patient with him) unceremoniously kicked him out on his ass for a player to be named later. And then replacing him with yet one more in a never fucking ending laughable Pied Piper parade of useless, punchless, worthless, feckless space-wasters, including this latest one, who put up the worst numbers of any Cardinals regular last year and proceeded to give him a two-fucking year contract, and at the same time shoving Brad Penny out the door as being too expensive when he wanted approximately half of what DeRosa got.
Stooge isn’t a GM. He is a fucking pimp and he can’t even do that well. And in spite of having one of the most exclusive brothels in the country he insists on paying toothless std-infested hookers as if they were $5000.00 per night escorts. And if the tricks aren’t very discriminating, and judging by the patronage figures, they aren’t, they shouldn’t be too awfully surprised when September rolls around and find, that once again, they’ve had their pockets picked by a pimp and his entourage.
did ya hear? derosa is heading out to see a doctor for his wrist
hahahahahahahahaaa
im happy for fred
i was positive that his problems stemmed from his foot issues and the way the org had treated him
im also happy that sabean again got burned on a trade
too bad the fo just doesnt get it
Wasn’t the beef about Lewis more to do with his fielding rather than his hitting? I seem to remember, yeah, something about teaching him to run on the balls of his feet. The thing is, he should have been able to field before he ever got to the majors.
It’s not like catching a fly ball in the majors is different from catching it at any other level. Hitting, sure, major league pitching is always a test for rookies. But catching fly balls? Shouldn’t that be second nature by the time an outfielder is in High School? Lewis is 29 years old.
Its not the knock on Lewis. Nobody is criticizing his defects. Those have all been acknowledged. It is Sabean’s lurching process and disdain for opinions and facts formed and derived after 1983 that is at the root of the contempt that his transactions are held.
there was never a significant prob with his d in the minors
no one in toronto has noted any probs
baseball is 60 percent mental…if your head is not in the game, you make mistakes
and undo pressure is constantly placed on the kids…none on the vets
think if nate was batting under the mendoza line, he would be sent out to suck on a daily basis? hell no
but derosa is
FL’s fielding has been good in Toronto. No, he would not be allowed to play if he sucked. Unless he had at some point in his career done something that was impressive, while playing for another team, was over the hill, hired by BS for an exorbitant salary far beyond his value. Then he would have been allowed to play and to suck.
I wonder how long his fielding will hold up, because if he does turn out to be a good outfielder with well above average hitting ability that, while good for him, would prove pretty conclusively that the Giants org was bad for him, not that that needs much proving.
I am hoping that they don’t fuck up Matt Downs.
derosa needs surgery again
why does sabean still have a job?
Speaking of Assholes
Sabean continues to flaunt his ignorance in the most arrogant manner possible. Everytime he opens his fucking mouth his lips remind me of an old wrinkled vagina sorely in need of a douche.
When a reporter questioned the continued minor league relegation of Buster Posey; in spite of a .970 OPS and a 16/18 BB/K split this is what was expelled from his imbecilic piehole:
Which of course is the reason why, even though he has never played a single inning there in his entire college/professional career, he has played 1/3 of his games at first base. Silly us, it must be that new-age development program. You know. The one where Lincecum developed his change-up playing left field.
But yes. There’s even more stoogery.
When it was pointed out that Posey was putting up some outstanding numbers, Sabean’s reply was this:
So he is being held back in AAA because he needs more experience catching, so they play him at 1b about 1/3 of the time. And the fact that he is hitting well doesn’t mean anything because the pitching isn’t very good and because of that he needs more experience hitting “not-very-good-pitching” because it isn’t very good.
Nobody can make that up. Nobody. It is fucking impossible to make shit like that up unless the voices in your head are singing “Ninety-Nine Fucking Bottles of Beer on the Wall” in fucking Gregorian Chant.
Calling him a tool is an insult to shit shovels everywhere.
here is the entire quote
“Triple-A baseball isn’t very good,” he said. “I’m going to tell you that right now. Especially from a pitching standpoint. Anybody who can pitch is in the big leagues. Most of the prospect arms, the stuff that really can neutralize hitters, are at Double-A. You look at what some of our (struggling hitting) prospects are doing there.
“So these guys (like Posey) are facing Four-A pitching, and you better have a lot of people see ‘em at different times and write their reports and almost have a straw poll of private ballots. Because I don’t know what it means anymore, in the PCL. It’s almost like years ago.”
granted, the most aaa teams are made up of a mix of prospects, org guys, guys trying their best to hang onto the dream, and guys trying to get back.
its one thing for a fan to note this, quite another for a gm.
does anyone really wanna play for a man who at a moments notice will badmouth him?
if the pcl doesnt have the talent, why was posey not kept in the eastern…where hits are harder to come by (much more to do with the parks and the weather, imo)
of course, this is a guy who puts alot of weight on st stats, despite the fact that the majority of pitchers seen are those that are gonna end up in aaa
really, the above quote should be enough to lose the man his job
Okay so this doesn’t have anything to do with the Giants or this particular thread but since I read this blog (?) all the time just wanted to share something.
I was at Dallas Braden’s perfect game today. It was pretty cool being part of something historic. I was joking about it after 3 innings. Then I was like hey he’s still perfect after 4. I boo’ed Longeria in the 5th when he tried to reach via the bunt… by the 7th I started getting butterflies.
I think I was the most nervous in the 8th and started actually counting down the outs. I fucked up on the first out, thought it was strike 3 instead of strike 2… and was like OH NO I JINXED IT. But luckily my powers to jinx were not to be.
I held my breath as Kouz made an amazing play on Pena’s foulout as he went flying into the A’s dougout.
During the 9th I couldn’t believe what I’m seeing.
Needless to say I’m horse from all the yelling and screaming. I clapped and laughed and yelled my heart out as he was mobbed by his teammates and cried a little when I saw him embrace his grandmother.
I think the most impressive thing about it is that the Rays are probably the best team in the AL and may be the best team in baseball right now. They had been 12-1 coming into this series on the road and had slaughtered the A’s, including Braden, just a week ago when the A’s were at the Trop. A lot of their players stayed in the dugout after the final out. Maybe to be part of history or maybe to just watch the scene unfolding on the field.
The funny thing is, after the 7th I wanted the A’s to go 1-2-3 so we could hurry up and get back to the pitching!
I guess it is true, you never know what to expect when you go to a game. I know this is a Giants site, but I just wanted to share.
Baseball really is a wonderful thing.
too bad the a’s have to play in that shitty park…took away from the magic of the moment
I love the irony of Braden’s perfect game. A-Rod is a fucking cunt and knew exactly what he was doing. Nobody at any level, including little league runs across the mound…ever. A-Rod would never have pulled that stunt if Kyle Farnsworth had been on the mound. If he had, you would have seen the first pitcher to commit homicide since Carl Mays killed Ray Chapman with an errant fastball.
From Bruce Jenkins in today’s SF Chron:
“With Mark DeRosa at a low point, scuffling around the .200 mark, this is the best time to say it: *great* signing by the Giants. This will be proven over time. His track record is too good, his character too strong, to believe otherwise. If he’s being truthful about his wrist – no post-surgical pain, just some difficult adjustments – he’ll be a huge factor in a month or two.”
Are there any moving parts in Bruce Jenkins’ head? It’s not just that DeRosa has been the worst regular outfielder in the NL this year. His line with St. Louis after last year’s mid-year trade was .222/.291/.405. So what we have here is a $6 million/year LF who over his last 350+ ABs is hitting around .220/.280/.350. If DeRosa’s hitting this way with a healthy wrist he’s probably through, which would not be surprising as he’s 35 years old. And if he’s hitting this way because his wrist is still hurt, well, if the off-season surgery didn’t fix the wrist then it probably won’t heal, period.
This is like the 12,509,598th time Jenkins has shown he is absolutely allergic to logic. Perhaps we should replace Brian Sabean with Bruce Jenkins. No one would ever know the difference…
Precisely.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, he has always had a hitch in his swing; a mechanical flaw that works against, not for a hitter. It can be overcome, but as one ages, the reflexes slow and the bad habit is too late to break, ergo the rolling over on balls that used to be driven. So his injury only increases the hurdles he has to overcome with an already flawed swing. He has not been a career Plan B for no reason.
Jenkins can be insufferable like most (cough) opinionated (cough) folks, (cough). Unfortunately for readers, his insufferability is exceeded only by his pugnaciousness and mendacity on behalf of the current SF Giants Ownership Group and Management.
There is a point where one has to stop reading propaganda by these self-appointed princes’ of pomposity, not because it is persuasive, but because it is stultifying. The SF Chronicle is ridiculous. It is an embarrassment. I would be ashamed to associated with them if they were my employer.
why is nate hitting so much better this year??? the hitch and loop that were in his swing are now totally gone
jenkins doesnt know shite
in other news…kfran, recently released by the bosox, then picked up on waivers by the halos, made his debut as a halo tonite and went 3 for 4 with a run scored
notice, the halos were 5 games under when he got the call up….how long was kfran kept on the farm before he got a call up from this org??? how many games under 500 were they at the time?? think scoscia is gonna go right back and replace the kid with a seasoned vet?
lewis doing well in toronto…kfran showing stuff in anaheim…..whats wrong with this picture?
and what do we have? a manager and a gm who insist on sending out a guy who is hitting below the mendoza line and when he dove for a ball today missed it by a good 6 feet
what else did pumpkinhead do today? well after the game he announced that romo is out of the setup role….a day after he said he was standing by the kid
never mind that because of affeldt’s early season woes, romo has made 14 appearances…..14!!!!!!!!!!!!! way to manage the pen there old brucey boy
never mind that he again sat nate against a lefty….even though the kid is hitting 400 against lefties this season…..even though it was his lead off ph that started the rally that tied the score
no….much more important to allow derosa to rehab his still weakened wrist playing in games….THAT MEAN SOMETHING
god…cant wait for freddy the savior to make his debut on june 1….what a friggin joke
well, at least we aint the bums….who are racing towards a 100 loss season….or the stros, who will be lucky to win 50
It might be fun to correlate team OPS ratios (pitching/hitting) with w/l ratios. Maybe I will try to excel this over the weekend.
Wow!…Just Effing Wow!
For comparison sake. The Pathetic Pittsburgh Pirates with the best ballpark in all of the Major Leagues; their starters have an opponent OPS of 914. Opponents are getting on base at a .377 clip…almost 40% of all batters. They rank 16th in the NL.
And what of the vaunted Yankees, Red Sox Phillies, Rays, Dodgers Cardinals, Angels…You know, all those teams always making the playoffs ?
Yankees – .667
Red Sox – .762
Phillies – .756
Rays – .647
Dodgers – .776
Cards – . 602
Angels – .839
Rockies – .737
So those are the perennial post-season candidates, and if you want to throw in Toronto’s stellar starting rotation OPS of .663, be my guest.
The Cardinals under LaRussa and Duncan with Carpenter, Wainwright, Penny are 45 basis points better than Tampa Bay…the AL East leader at 21-7. The Cards are 18-11 after losing 3 in a row to Philly who themselves are 17-11. Those are your AL East, NL East, and NL Central Leaders. The AL Central Leaders are the Twins at 19-10 with an opponent OPS of .775.
The Cardinals .602 OPS against is indeed, impressive. Its actually less than what Giants free-agent signings routinely hit, though not by much. Thats how good Cards starters have been. Granted, their starters are a little more experienced than the Giants and instead of Todd Wellemeyer and his 5.55 ERA in the rotation, the Cards are running out the guy who WAS the Giants 5th starter, Brad Penny and his 1.99 ERA.
So what of the NL West you ask? Well grab some meat, Mr. Pine, because the Giants starters are CONSISTENTLY putting up fucking little league numbers that literally cause me to laugh out loud. Not only are they better than the Cardinals starters when it comes to OPS against, it is not even close.
How “not-even-close”?
How about and OPS against of .551. Thats right. Five-Fifty-One. How good is that?
Well, the Giants don’t have a single solitary player hitting that low. Not one. Not even the listless DeRosa and Bowker at .575 and .561 respectively (or disrespectively if you will). Only the pitching staff is worse. Even the feckless Velez and Ishikawa are eeking out at .643 and 629 playing sporadically.
Thats how good .551 is. The pen not so much ranking 11 out of 30 with an OPS against of .694 compared to the MLB leading Padre Pen of .586.
Overall, the Giants are still dominant at .586 with the Cards at .635 being almost 50 points worse, their nearest competitor.
Its too bad DeRosa, Sanchez and Renteria are complete wastes contributing anywhere between zero and nothing in the run production department.
So whose carrying the team in terms of OPS?
Not much in the way of credible numbers in terms of number of plate appearances, but here are your top three in 30-70-22 Plate appearances: Downs at 1.180, Schierholtz at 1.046 and Whiteside at 1.032. Even the useless Rowand is in a little streak here with 65 PA and a .921 OPS. One fucking walk though, is ridiculous.
The leader in PA is Sandoval with 120 OPS 848. He can do better.
But it really is too bad about Sanchez Renteria and DeRosa. This team could have 20 wins easily with any kind of consistent major league hitting.
But Bengie Molina in the 4 hole is all anybody has to know about the long term chances of this offense.
The starters are averaging barely a baserunner an inning, and opposing hitters are batting less than .200 while striking out about once per inning. That is less than 4 balls in play per inning- one hit/walk, 1 strikeout and 2 put-outs.
Incredible early run they are having here.
rentawreck to the dl…probably tomorrow
i win the motherfuckin pool
if freddy does make it back by june 1, im calling for a mid july trip to the dl
Fantastic news. Let’s hope Downs and Uribe stay hot and claim the middle-infield spots permanently for themselves.
Now, at what point does Neukom start thinking to himself “Wow…our aging double play combo of Renteria and Sanchez is unavailable due to injuries. These players make an average of nearly $8mm in 2010 annual salary. What kind of misjudgment could have led to signing these two broken down players to expensive, guaranteed deals?” Oh wait, this thought will never enter Neukom’s mind. Never mind.
I’m with giantsrainman.
If all you’re criticizing is management, you’re flattering them no matter what you say.
After all this time has gone by, does Sabean think that anyone is going to believe him about there being another team involved in the Zito negotiations? What a bunch of crap, sounds like he is trying to cover his gigantic a$$.
And while were taking Sabean to task for bringing in useless overpaid flotsam position players, last night’s game, as well as the recent loss in Los Angeles that should have been a Giants win if not for Bochy’s stupidity and propensity for never learning from his mistakes, which by definition makes him fucking insane; it must, because he keeps repeating the mistakes and has a big fat losing fucking record over his entire career to show for it. Anyway this is what John wrote up on Bochy and Zito’s failures last year. Kind of appropriate in light of Bochy screwing the pooch once, and getting bailed out by Romo the second time in 6 starts. Not bad. He only manages to fuck up 1/3 of Zito’s starts instead of most of them.
Look. I’m still not sold on Zito. He’s a had a nice stretch. Almost as good as Tomko’s in Sept. 2004 when there was something actually on the line. When Zito actually does something when it really matters, then I will care. Until then, he is merely treading water, and I don’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut and won’t until he actually accomplishes something besides running up nice personal numbers in April and May.
The only criticism of Zito is really one that should be shared by Bochy. Zito starts losing command around 80 or so pitches. It happened in LA. It happened last night. And it happened a ton last year and Bochy being the vet sucking maggot always leaves Zito in one batter too long than one batter too few. Bochy is the master of blowing opportunities. I hate this guy more and more every game of every season.
John wrote at length here on this last season too.
Bochy makes friends in the media, so they leave him unmolested and un-criticized.
Here is what happened in June last year. John nailed Bochy. Does Bochy learn anything?
No. Bochy doesn’t learn anything. He was a below average Major Leaguer. He was a below average Manager in San Diego. And now for all their millions, the Giants have followed up the useless petulant incoherent Felipe Alou with Son of Stooge and rewarded his losing seasons and indifference and prejudice to the younger players that the system is finally producing and rewards him with a two year extension.
Your San Francisco Giants.
i really didnt see zito losing control last nite
he loaded the bases on 2 if and a real single
it wasnt like he was getting hit hard
Pitchcount joe: He threw his 80th pitch to end the 7th inning.
He threw 21 pitches in the 8th without retiring a batter.
The point being that Zito’s cutoff is about 80 pitches. Go back and read John’s article again. There is a pattern here that can be avoided. Zito routinely poops out at 80. There was no reason fro him to start the eighth. None.
A manager with half a clue would have had his set up guy start the eighth clean instead of the monkey-fuck thrill ride of giving up a run and the tying run at third with nobody out. Thats just stupid veteran-sucking on Moonrock head’s part.
He came about as close as you can to blowing a game they clearly had the advantage in. The man excels at blowing opportunities.
The key to Zito is the number of times the opponents see him. He seems to be able to get through the opposing lineup twice. After that he is vulnerable. Of course, the pitch count would correspond to this phenomenon. After a hitter has seen Zito twice in a game, the bending curve and 79~84 mph “fastball” lose a lot of their surprise factor. If he could muscle up to 88 or 89 mph occasionally then he would have a lot more success.
It takes the batters a couple goes before they figure out how many bars of “Dixie” they have to hum from the time of Zito’s release to the time they start their swing.
Its better than a poke in the eye. But this club continues to be one of the great shining examples of one squandered opportunity after another. Even taking the Marlins down twice to open this short road trip has them playing 3 games over .500 since the beginning of the season. They still don’t have the players to sustain any winning real winning streaks. And as tradition dictates, no winning streaks, no post-season. Blown and squandered opportunities prevent winning streaks. Cause and Effect.
A roster filled with fat and old position players isn’t going to go on any long winning streaks. And for a club that is holding opponents to less than 3 runs per game on average, this is pathetic. Actually its more than pathetic. Pathetic implies absence of control; a powerlessness over events. Abomination. Abysmal. Awful. Obscenely terrible are terms more appropriate to how this team is run by the front office and on-field management.
The Giants for all the propaganda and happy-happy blather are still a miserable 20th in runs scored in MLB. Thats right. Different season, same old shit. The Rays, by contrast are a balanced club, sporting pitching, defense, and offense. A three-dimensional team. The Giants are a one-dimensional team. A pitching staff supplemented by this year’s awesome free-agent signings:
Freddy Sanchez — China Doll slappy old, injured, over-rated, over-paid garbage can
Mark DeRosa — Injured, old, sub .700 OPS over-paid multi-year, old garbage can
Bengie Molina batting cleanup.
And all of it predictable and subsequently, predicted.
Uribe and Huff are not complete embarrassments. Yet.
And how an idiot like Andres Torres can stick on a roster and earn playing time while being amongst the stupidest baserunners in the game. (getting caught stealing third with nobody out with your only goddamned hitter at the plate is nothing but a boneheaded highschool play, or something out of the Reuben Rivera baserunning guide. That not only cost them an out, it cost them a run as Sandoval doubled on the next pitch, and may have cost them a big inning as Robertson was starting to come unglued. As it was, but for Romo, the Giants would have been 4 games over .500, not 6.
Even when they win, this team has so many overpriced mistakes on it and so many incompetent people making decisions, even when they win, its like watching a poorly and incompetently maintained airliner flown by a drunken flight crew crash land, but you’re so damned happy just because most of the passengers survived to live another day, but in the grand scheme of things, nothing was really accomplished because the pilot survived too and everybody has to pile back on the same plane again the next day.
Torres is absolutely worthless. Only San Francisco is capable of offering him a role (and, sadly, a large one, at that). On the other hand, despite the sample size, this is an encouraging start for Matt Downs. Hopefully Freddy Sanchez never returns.
i would prefer to see torres out there than derosa
and why was he given the green light to steal after the double
They Are In First Place Again!
Give the hate a rest. Watch and enjoy the games!
I think its fair to say that we are all watching and enjoying the games at the moment. I didn’t think it would happen but our pitching looks even better than last year when it was awesome.
I think the general point here is that the Giants are doing well but can you imagine how much better things might be if Sabean hadn’t gone out and wasted money on injured players but spent it more wisely.
A prime example would be signing Kelly Johnson for ~$2-3m over Sanchez for $12m over two years (I did advocate this at the time). Johnson was coming off a bad year that could mostly be put down to bad luck (i.e. very low BABIP) and was a good candidate to rebound to prior levels (I never expected him to get off to this good a start). Sanchez was an ageing injured player living off an old batting title.
Nope.
The Giants win in spite of the leadership, or lack, thereof, demonstrated by [Sabean and Bochy].
Asked and answered.
technically it was a 7+ inning effort put in by Zito and not “8-plus”.
Devil’s advocate here, but if Sabean gets the blame for all the losing seasons and general failings of the team, shouldn’t he also get some credit when the team is succeeding?
no
zito is some sort of miracle, and despite his now playing out of his head, his contract has impacted this team’s ability to get a big bat
the team is playing well because of sabean’s mismanagement
freddy not being on the dl has pushed uribe into playing everyday, and downs being called up
uribe is supposed to be super utility guy…not an everyday player
downs wasnt even on sabeans radar
sabean has very little to do with the drafting and overseeing of the farm system
this was first done badly by tidrow and now in great fashion by evans
now tidrow has an eye for pitching talent, so he gets the kudos for the current staff…
if you wanna give credit to sabean for some good hirings…fine….but if it were up to sabean, tidrow would still be running the farm system into the ground
take a look around our farm clubs….for the first time in their history, every team on every level is both balanced and winning (although they still cant hit a lick in the eastern)
and just wait till freddy rejoins the club and we have not one but two of the walking wounded, flailing away at pitches
Director of Scouting John Barr is to be commended as well
Barr is really good as is Evans and like joe says, Tidrow with the pitching. It took them 303 years to finally clear the wreckage of Jack Hiatt’ regime and finally redirecting Tidrow’s efforts to areas that he excels; evaluating pitching talent, but the minor league system is the only thing keeping the Giants afloat. It took them 16 years to rid themselves of Jack Hiatt. I just hope it doesn’t take them that long to get rid of Sabean who is in the middle of his 15th season of bullying ineptitude.
While Hiatt was merely incompetent, he was at least friendly, affable, and seemed to be a genuinely nice person, in contrast to the surly, paranoid Stooge In Chief. Who is in the middle of his 15th year of stoogery.
hiatt was a nice guy….which is how he kept his job
he was also good at hiring coaching talent
what he wasnt good at was creating a balance in the minor league system
not his fault, he was working off of sabean’s philosophy
tidrow was too…that is why he was hired to find and develop the best pitchers…..sabean didnt give crap one about position players or developing a winning attitude
sabean thinks the minor league system is a joke
and while its a crap shoot, and lots of players question the point of a playoff system for the minor league divisions….go ask them if its better to play on a winning or a losing squad….ask them if its better playing in front of 9k per game (that they are getting in richmond) of the couple hundred that used to show up at dodd
and sabean’s philosophy of trading pitching talent for proven everyday players continues to be an absolute fraud….yet he’s sticking to it….thank god evans has autonomy to do his own thing
and thank god they are seriously grooming decker to take over for bochy…that guy has fresno playing out of its head…and its the real prospects that are propelling that team to a winning season
that is the same line he used in regards el fatso
why do reporters allow him to get away with this shite?
derosa has admitted that his reconstructed wrist is still weak, which is why he is slumping (and moving him up and down the lineup aint gonna fix his probs)
freddy will not be back with the team till june 1 at the earliest….2 months of being paid to rehab
After making a cross-country flight to see two games at “Pac Bell,” I was happy to come across a few Sabean protesters outside the yard. Sold me a “Fire Brian Sabean” t-shirt and gave me some hope.
Brian Sabean. This man has failed. Time and again. It is so, so painfully clear. There is no other possible interpretation.
When will his day of reckoning arrive? I would gladly forgo say, six months salary, to sit him down in a room for two hours and explain how flawed his player evaluation/projection approaches are. He has failed and will continue to fail.