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Sorry San Francisco Giants fans, your team hates you.
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The San Francisco Giants have the best 1-2 punch of young pitchers in the bigs with Lincecum and Cain, 3 other good starters, a solid closer and no offense. In a league where pitching is as valuable as gold and productive offensive players are traded for left handed relievers with a 5+ era somehow the Giants have managed to spend $82 million dollars this year and they are currently 27th in runs scored. For starters lets look at what the Giants are spending their money on.
-Barry Zito $18.50 million
-Randy Winn $9.60 million
-Aaron Rowand $9.60 million
-Randy Johnson $8 million
-Edgar Renteria $8 million
These 5 players account for 65% of the teams salary. Barry Zito has 24 wins and 37 losses in his 3 seasons with the Giants. Winn and Rowand have been solid players but are hardly living up to their salary. Randy Johnson is milking the Giants for win #300 while compiling a 4.89 era this season. Edgar Renteria the Giants big season addition is hitting a robust .252. I don't expect the Giants to compete with the Yankees and get Mark Texiera or Manny Ramirez but there were a ton of bats available this past off season which for some reason they passed on. Available players were:
-Bobby Abreau signed for $5 million and is hitting .297 with the Angels.
-Casey Blake signed for $5.8 million while batting .299 with 10 home runs and 39 RBI's for the division leading Dodgers.
-Russell Branyan $1.4 million hitting .313, 15 and 30 RBI's.
Joe Crede, Nomar Garciaparra, Jonny Gomes, Eric Hinske, Orlando Hudson and Mark Kotsay are a few more quality inexpensive bats that were available. They also passed on three big bats that were signed for below market value in Rual Ibanez, Adam Dunn and Pat Burrell.
If Bengie Molina is your cleanup hitter you have a problem. If Bengie Molina is your cleanup hitter for 3 consecutive seasons you have a major problem. Yes they are in second place in the embarrassingly pathetic NL west and currently in the wild card lead but lets face it Pablo Sandoval isn't gonna hit .332 all season. Your team is good but it should be great. In addition to refusing to compete with the rest of the league they for some reason didn't lock up their stud ace Tim Lincecum this off season. The ship is sinking Giants fan and management could care less.
The San Francisco Giants have the best 1-2 punch of young pitchers in the bigs with Lincecum and Cain, 3 other good starters, a solid closer and no offense. In a league where pitching is as valuable as gold and productive offensive players are traded for left handed relievers with a 5+ era somehow the Giants have managed to spend $82 million dollars this year and they are currently 27th in runs scored. For starters lets look at what the Giants are spending their money on.
-Barry Zito $18.50 million
-Randy Winn $9.60 million
-Aaron Rowand $9.60 million
-Randy Johnson $8 million
-Edgar Renteria $8 million
These 5 players account for 65% of the teams salary. Barry Zito has 24 wins and 37 losses in his 3 seasons with the Giants. Winn and Rowand have been solid players but are hardly living up to their salary. Randy Johnson is milking the Giants for win #300 while compiling a 4.89 era this season. Edgar Renteria the Giants big season addition is hitting a robust .252. I don't expect the Giants to compete with the Yankees and get Mark Texiera or Manny Ramirez but there were a ton of bats available this past off season which for some reason they passed on. Available players were:
-Bobby Abreau signed for $5 million and is hitting .297 with the Angels.
-Casey Blake signed for $5.8 million while batting .299 with 10 home runs and 39 RBI's for the division leading Dodgers.
-Russell Branyan $1.4 million hitting .313, 15 and 30 RBI's.
Joe Crede, Nomar Garciaparra, Jonny Gomes, Eric Hinske, Orlando Hudson and Mark Kotsay are a few more quality inexpensive bats that were available. They also passed on three big bats that were signed for below market value in Rual Ibanez, Adam Dunn and Pat Burrell.
If Bengie Molina is your cleanup hitter you have a problem. If Bengie Molina is your cleanup hitter for 3 consecutive seasons you have a major problem. Yes they are in second place in the embarrassingly pathetic NL west and currently in the wild card lead but lets face it Pablo Sandoval isn't gonna hit .332 all season. Your team is good but it should be great. In addition to refusing to compete with the rest of the league they for some reason didn't lock up their stud ace Tim Lincecum this off season. The ship is sinking Giants fan and management could care less.
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