I'd like to take credit for this. Less than 24 hours after I write that "by all accounts" we wouldn't see Buster Posey in S.F. this month, the Giants call him up.
Well, then. Let's try this: There's no way in hell the Giants will have a winning road trip. Tim Lincecum can't win a second Cy Young because he doesn't have enough wins. I'm never going to win the lottery, and that elusive Nobel Prize in Chemistry will forever elude my grasp. Everything associated with me is completely wrong.
The Posey move -- or "about-face," as Hank Schulman writes -- was prompted by Bengie Molina's leg injury and perhaps the Giants' unhappiness that he's not playing through it in a pennant race. Whether Posey gets starts, and who is on the mound when he does, will be a fascinating sideshow in the coming weeks.
Lefty reliever Dan Runzler is also up. Neither call-up was on the 40-man roster, which means we'll see some maneuvers, methinks. Baggs reports Ryan Sadowski could come back soon, and that the Giants can use the DL-replacement loophole to get Posey or others onto the post-season roster. That's the loophole the Angels used in 2002 to use K-Rod in the playoffs and watch him get abused by Barry Bonds. It shattered the poor kid's confidence and he was never heard from again. Other than that, I don't remember how it all turned out for the Angels that year.
The Giants also swore they wouldn't call up Madison Bumgarner, but I don't expect an about-face there. Bumgarner has thrown a lot of innings this year, and there's much talk about his recent drop in velocity and strikeouts even though he's still pitching well.
