January 2012 Archives

I just saw the ad featuring Buster Posey in the Chron sports pages this morning: Giants' FanFest is Saturday. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and all that. But Buster notwithstanding, hell no. I'm staying as far away as possible....
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Surprise! The Giants weren't done dealing after all. They've signed Ryan Theriot, backup middle infielder supreme, to a one-year deal for $1.25 M and incentives that could bump his cash to $2 M. It's non-guaranteed, which means they only pay...
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You know what I'm talking about, right? According to reports, the Giants have agreed to a two-year deal that eats up Tim Lincecum's final two arbitration years, and talks are progressing with an extension for Matt Cain. Cain and Lincecum....
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We're a month away from baseball. The early-spring, hey-how-was-your-winter, let's-run-ten-wind-sprints-and-call-it-a-day kind of baseball, when the big news items are someone's moustache and someone else who strained his back picking up a bucket of batting-practice balls. Prediction: Brian Wilson will arrive...
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Let's wrap up the day's arbitration news. No surprises on the Giants front unless you count the $6 million figure for Melky Cabrera, and in the comments of the previous post, longtime reader OGC argues convincingly that it wasn't an...
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The Giants have avoided arbitration with Melky Cabrera by signing him to a one-year, $6 million contract, roughly a third more than what he was projected to receive. It's not exactly crazy money -- the system rewards players in the...
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You can pencil Ryan Vogelsong into the Giants' rotation for the next two years. According to various reports tonight, he has signed a two-year contract with a third-year team option, all in the neighborhood of $8 million, according to some....
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