February 2009 Archives

Tim Lincecum has signed a $650,000 contract. Kudos to Hank Schulman for the scoopage. It’ll be his last one under $1 M, you can be sure. Next winter he’s eligible for arbitration and a significant raise. Or he and the...
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On my lunch break I turned on the radio to hear Ishikawa hit a two-run homer, Velez steal a base, and Schierholtz hit a two-run homer. Best leftover chicken I’ve had in a long time. EVENING UPDATE: In the recap of...
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Huzzah, finally real practice baseball in about 14 hours when the Giants open the Cactus League against Cleveland. Tim Lincecum will pitch with this lineup behind him, according to Chris Haft:Winn RFRenteria SSSandoval 3BMolina CIshikawa 1BRowand CFSchierholtz LFBurriss 2BUribe DHIf...
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Our chef du network, the Depressed Fan Brian, has worked his ass off yet again to launch Spring Training '09, a fabulous compendium from around the camps. Not only does it aggregate all the posts from the Blogs by Fans...
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Once again ladies and germs, señoras y señores, it's my monthly musical diversion. You can find the January rotation here. As usual this time of year, pitchers are way ahead of the hitters. My starting five are in top form.Wilco,...
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As if a year’s worth of Bocock jokes weren’t enough, it turns out the guy’s been taking Viagra to help with a circulatory problem. But onward to the real #1 spring training story that’s yet to be told: The Building-Up...
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MLB.com has this quote from Kevin Correia, who turned down better offers to sign a minor-league deal with San Diego: "It was my dream growing up to play for my hometown team. This was a team I rooted for as a...
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Part two of my half-assed economic musings...Most of us are dreading the pink slip, but the recession might save Brian Sabean's job. In the past year or so, he's done several things right such as restocking the farm system and...
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I was wondering why we were getting radio silence from Andy Baggarly of the Merc for the past week. Now we know: he was on unpaid furlough, as he notes in today's blog post. The second biggest daily paper in...
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With camp starting tomorrow, get ready for a flood of reports on some of the Giants’ top prospects. (Not to mention the requisite “He’s the in the best shape of his life!” stories.) Buster Posey is in major-league camp, so...
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What, you thought you were going to get something not suitable for work? Now that the Nats have signed Adam Dunn, first baseman Nick Johnson is likely to be traded. Brian Sabean has said he doesn't want to trade for...
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One thing about our sabremetric era that doesn't get discussed much: it's inherently anti-labor. "Efficiencies" is not a word workers want to hear from the executive suite. When Bob Seger sang "I Feel Like a Number," he wasn't talking about...
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Reader BigO brought this picture to my attention. Captionize it, don't criticize it. ...
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* Alex Rodriguez took steroids. Next topic: * Rich Aurilia is coming back to the Giants on a minor-league deal, writes Ken Rosenthal. [UPDATE: Sfgiants.com has confirmed it.] As noted in my last post, this is a guy who crushed...
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Lots of interesting tidbits emerged from the Giants' FanFest this weekend. Some revealed grander macro-economic truths about the state of the game, some provided fodder for quasi-autistic, detail-obsessed roster nerds. Ooh! I'll take the latter for $500! First, Brian Sabean...
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Thanks to Rainman for asking yesterday about our comment function, which labels your comment "Anonymous" if you forget to add your name. I'm embarrassed to admit that I never noticed the "Remember personal info" box in the comment interface. Mark...
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* Dear reader Frank made this comment a couple days ago: Tell me again why we would sign Manny for 2 yrs at $20-25 mil per, when we could sign Bonds for one season and name our price - $5, 10,...
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Gotta weigh in on the latest cosmic Manny thing. For those who haven't seen this morning's headlines, the Dodgers offered a one-year, $25 M contract, and Ramirez rejected it. As Grant writes, it now looks like a two-year contract could...
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Word from New York is that Oliver Perez is back with the Mets on a 3–year, $36 M deal. That’s big money these days. Lucky Ollie. The deal presumably takes the Mets out of the running for Ben Sheets. How...
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