Joe, 26, is a former first-round pick who had largely struggled until a breakout 2018 season. In 435 plate appearances in the upper minors, he turned in a robust .299/.408/.527 slash with a career-high 17 home runs and sixty walks to go with 88 strikeouts.Joe was drafted in 2014 and was the 39th pick. Tyler Beede was the 21st. (Of those 41 picks only 20 have made the bigs.) The Giants had to trade for Connor, he was acquired for righty pitcher Jordan Johnson who was at AA last season.
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He plays first, third and outfield and hits right-handed. That was to be Pablo Sandoval's role. If the Giants carry 13 pitchers, and Joe, it's hard to imagine Panda making the club.Hard to argue, not to mention they gave up a player to get him. I always root for the Panda, but maybe this is the end of the line for him.
--M.C.
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panda is the man.
Unlike Panda he also plays Right Field acceptably giving the giants one more tool in that tool box.
So the question is more do they carry him as an outfielder or an infielder.
Williamson, Duggar, Parra, and ... uhm ... who has earned it?
SHaw has already been sent down. Maybin looks pretty pathetic. They designated Fergeson on this move. Slater is stinking ( they asked himn to work on his power stroke in January expecting results by now? ).
Do not be surprised if this move means it is Slater that is back to the minors.
12 or 13 pitchers? That's the key, I think.
13 position players: Belt, Panik, BCraw, Longoria, Posey, plus 4 OF, plus backup C, means 3 spots left. You have to backup 4 spots on the IF, so Solarte and Joe and . . .? Panda? Or a 5th OF?
12 position players: only 2 spots left, seems like that squeezes Panda.
That's assuming that Joe makes the team regardless, if only because they traded someone for him and cut loose another guy as well. You don't move two bodies for a Rule V guy that won't make the cut. And I'm assuming Solarte is on the roster because he is the only backup at shortstop.
ALEN Hanson can play SS if he makes the team.
Yeah I forgot about Hanson!
8 H , 3 BB, and 16 SO so far this spring, he'll have to pick it up to match Solarte.
Parra, Solarte, and reliever Nick Vincent are all on the Opening Day roster.
Rene Rivera was cut loose despite a good spring. So, are they going with Stephen Vogt? I'm guessing that Garcia goes down because he has options, but he's had a good spring, too.
Word is Vogt will start at AAA because he is still recovering from injury. Plus, Garcia is RH and they need RH bats.
So Joyce was released and signed with the Braves. Lefty bat, I think, made him less of a fit? I don't know. This is the New Way, FZ style.
Very early in his tenure here he mentioned what he'd learned about roster-building in both OAK and LA and it was "no move is too small if you improve the roster." I liked it at the time, and I think I understand what it means now. A roster is not a fixed list. It is a dynamic thing, subject to pushes and pulls and what-ifs and contingencies, not to mention relying on a restricted supply of talent in an artificial "marketplace."
Currently the market for older players is over-supplied, there are a heap of interchangeable parts that can be had cheaply. We are going to get to know A LOT of them! There's probably a 4 out of 5 failure rate for these pickups, but that's how you have to roll if your minor-leagues and foreign signings aren't producing enough ML-ready players. The old guys have at least proven they possess ML talent, even if they can't necessarily give you a full-time player's production. Some positive WAR is what you hope for until a guy in your system matures or you can finagle a trade for someone else. That's hard when you don't have the trade chips!
P Tyler Herb (potential All-Name Team Honorable Mention) traded for OF Mike Yastrzemski (grandson of Carl). "Yaz" is one of those great baseball nicknames, that boosts grandson's chances for inclusion on the Honorable Mention roll. You have to be a major-leaguer, if only for a cup of coffee, to get on The Team.
This year with Yangervis Solarte, a returning All-Star, the Giants are poised to add Connor Joe and perhaps Abiatal Avelino. Kieran Lovegrove is a long-shot, but well-placed, and Keyvius Sampson and Hamlet Marte are hanging around the fringes.
Any nominees or future nominees for the All-Name Team I'm overlooking?
RH OF Michael Reed, 26, acquired from the Twins for OF John Andreoli, who was a waiver claim/NRI.
Reed supposedly can play CF.
Okert DFA'd.
Smith, Watson, and Bergen will be the lefty trio.
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