Game 72 (Sunday's win in Chicago) flew right past my radar. They've gone 2-2 since. After 4/9 of the season they were 29-43 and they now sit at 31-45, a .408 clip. I note they scored seven runs in both games of the doubleheader in Atlanta and won both. They scored a mere three apiece in the two in Miami and naturally lost both.
--M.C.
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Houser goes to the bullpen. Well, that oughta reduce his trade value!
Both starters signed this year have been busts, but that's no surprise as expectations were low. Having Adames and Devers BOTH stink this year was not on my radar at all. I expected both to be healthy and to play well.
At least Chapman's glove is still a plus. His power is down, but he's no liability. Devers is overall pretty solid at 1B but Adames has gone backwards at SS
Adames, Devers, Chapman, Lee: these are not where the Giants problems lie, I would expect them to finish the season with decent numbers. I think the failure of the Posey administration is to evaluate and put decent pitchers on the field. The kindest thing you can say about McDonald and Roupp is that they are rookies, and consequently get slapped around in the way that rookies do. But these guys are increasingly looking like they are unable to adjust. Houser and Mahle were hoped to be average, they're not. Then there's relief. Maybe the Giants were seduced by their success in spring training, but there is a real failure to have anyone in the pen reliable. Maybe Houser will be that guy.
The whole "Giants are sellers at the deadline" thing kind of mystifies me. Not because I think they're going to be competitive, but because it seems like trades, drafts, salary negotiations, and the like are of more interest to a fair percentage of the media writers than the game itself. I did pretty well last season avoiding that stuff and was happier for it.
I have been hearing a statistic that, frankly, surprises me. That is, that Chapman leads, or at least led the other day, the NL in average with RISP. He seems to be a dead weight when I see his at bats.
RISPs are pretty small samples. It's easy to be an outlier. According to BB-Ref he's 9-for-25 (29 total PA) with RISP with 5 doubles and 10 RBI. He's got 321 PA overall so you can see it's less than 10% of his total.
You are certainly right about the pitching. Is it the coaches? The development guys? Or do we just lack talent in the system?
I don't know, man.
I think you are on the right track with questioning the farm system. It sure seems to be underwhelming. We had some good home grown talent during the championship years, but there doesn’t seem to be many successes from the farm in the last decade. There are some exceptions (Webb) of course.
I think it’s hard to be successful without bringing up your own talent. I think part of the problem is weak drafting. I think a lot of it is the lack of building up the farm system. I think the F.O. phobia of the dreaded “rebuild” has kept the farm system pretty thin of talent.
I hope we are getting to the point where the F. O. realizes the Giants fan base is intelligent enough to except the dreaded rebuild (or even desire a rebuild).
…but then again, attendance is strong and they are presumably making money, so why would they change the formula?
This is the “break even” ownership group that is the “memory making business”.
I saw the giants let go of Oliva. This is the guy they kept instead of Matos. Speaking of speed, why bring up cox if you are not going to play him. The Marlins approach has Gabe Kapler written all over it.
The Giants have never wanted to do a tear-down/re-build. They think the fans will revolt. I think the opposite. The fans have wanted one for years!
I think there is talent in the system. Somewhere along the line the player development thing got derailed. I hear good things about Randy Winn, though. Maybe we just have to let our newbie front office crew fail and then see how they pick themselves up.
Some of us are old, and would like to see a competitive team sooner than later. Some of us suffered enough rooting for the giants for decade after decade, and the the 2010's came along. This year seems like a seriously bad underachieving team. They find new and creative ways to lose and they are still finding more ways. Marlins announcer for game 2 said in one inning marlins reached base in 6 of the possible 7 ways to reach base. Only way they didn't get to first was a dropped 3rd strike and runner makes it to first.
Devers hissy fit about being pinch run for by Cox, just about guarantees he will be traded, and for less value than before the incident. This series showed that the giants will do all they can do to lose a game. The Marlins who have Kapler as their GM, showed in this series, the rubber stamp of a Kapler run franchise. Giants just do not do the little things well. As a matter of fact, they do a lot of the little things poorly. Can we hit, even against the worst relievers? The pitching matchup game worked well for the fish. The stadium was just about 10 feet too deep or Casey Schmidt would have had about 4 homers in the series.
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