Jeremy Affeldt
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3.7K2From vets to rookies, Giants feel confident heading into familiar territory: an elimination game
“We don’t need no easy (expletive) road. We get to play an extra (expletive) game. It doesn’t matter how you get from A to B, our goal at the beginning of this (expletive) season is to win a (expletive) World Series. And guess what, boys! We’re going to the (expletive) dance!” — Hunter Pence You […]
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Projecting the Giants postseason roster
Assuming the Giants make the postseason, here’s my roster projection. They’ll probably need to win a Wild Card “play-in” game against the Pirates just to make it to the NLDS, unless they somehow overtake the Dodgers. The Cubs aren’t helping the Giants in their series against the Dodgers so far, and the Giants can’t sleep […]
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3.5K2Bruce Bochy discusses Pablo Sandoval’s contract situation, slow start
Pablo Sandoval hasn’t looked completely lost at the plate, but his .161 start after eight games was mentioned by Brian Sabean yesterday when he discussed the team’s decision to table contract talks for the time being. “He might be pressing a little bit because it’s in his head one way or the other,” the Giants […]
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3.4K3Play Ball Lunch turns into Roast of Jeremy Affeldt
The people from the Giants Community Fund and Junior Giants were nice enough to invite me to today’s Play Ball Lunch at the Hilton near Union Square. Even though we donated money to Junior Giants last year from our “Marty Lurie Bingo” game at the Public House, and even with all the radio ads where […]
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2.5K2New hats designed to protect pitchers are going to be a tough sell
MLB recently approved a new style of hat designed to protect pitchers from severe injuries resulting from line drives to the head. Brandon McCarthy is probably the most high-profile example of this ugly scenario, and the concussion he sustained caused him to miss a considerable amount of time. However, there have been multiple cases of […]
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Mid-season Progress Report: Can the Giants repeat their first half success?
It is the traditional midpoint (even if it isn’t the mathematical midpoint) of the season, which means there is no better time to give both Bay Area teams progress reports. Earlier today, I looked at the A’s, and now it is time to take a look at what the Giants have done. Offense: The Giants offense hasn’t […]
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After Santiago Casilla's latest meltdown, is it time for the Giants to replace him?
At first glance, Santiago Casilla‘s stat line doesn’t look too bad. He currently has a 2-4 record with 21 saves (good for third in the NL) with a 2.84 ERA, but when you pull back things a little further, things don’t look quite as good. After last nights disaster of a ninth inning, Casilla is […]
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Giants’ pen picks up Mr. Perfect
Tough to blame Matt Cain if he were a little tired on Monday night. And it doesn’t matter how “focused” or “unflappable”...
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Top 10 San Francisco Giants surprises (so far)
We arrived in San Diego on Thursday, and we’re heading to L.A. today and will stay there until Thursday. As always, I feel weird when I’m out of town and can’t watch (almost) every pitch of every San Francisco Giants game — so it’s really going to be an adjustment in July when my wife […]
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Giants beat A’s 8-6 in an absurd Bay Bridge Series opener (and Affeldt gained an ab on the DL)
First, the San Francisco Giants are accumulating walks at an unbelievable clip this week. They’d never admit publicly that they’re encouraging patience at the plate. They’d never admit publicly that they read all the criticism, especially recently, of their hitters’ propensity to swing at crappy pitches. But something happened this week. 10 walks on Tuesday. […]
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Freddy Sanchez suffers yet another setback: his back
The pregame interviews with Bruce Bochy are funny in a way. Fairly frequently, probably every other game or so, Bochy is holding a nugget of useful injury news. Every once in a while he’ll volunteer the information, but generally someone needs to ask. Whenever anyone asks anything about Freddy Sanchez, the news is usually on […]
