Brian Sabean
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Brandon Crawford, 2015 All-Star?
a “The team, I think, is a little bit deeper. Especially (compared to) how we started last year,” Brian Sabean said on Friday. Since the Giants GM started speaking in bullet points after that comment, I’ll separate his quotes while listing them in order. “If you look at how Susac’s emerged and what he’s capable of, potentially.” […]
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Sabean on why the Giants haven’t seriously considered playing Belt in LF
I asked San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean a few questions on Friday, when he met with reporters for about a half hour in a suite at AT&T Park. The first was whether they had room in the budget for Cuban phenom Yoan Moncada. The third question was about team chemistry, which will be a part […]
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3.1K41Sabean on possibility of signing Moncada: “It would be a long shot.”
“We’re pretty much at our budget,” Brian Sabean said in response to the second question he faced at today’s Media Day interview about the Giants no longer considering “big ticket” acquisitions heading into the 2015 season. So I asked the question that naturally came to mind. “Would that probably preclude you from going after Yoan […]
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3.5K7Giants free agency predictions: did we underspend?
I got this tweet in response to my post from Friday, in which I predicted what I thought the Giants would do in free agency. @BASportsGuy So you are saying the Giants are cutting payroll, they have 30 million going off books, your guys will cost less then that. — peter johnson (@peterjo93477435) December 13, 2014 […]
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3.3K49Giants free agent predictions that’ll look silly in a few days/weeks/months
Since the Giants used the Winter Meetings as an avenue to display the lighter side of Bobby Evans, but not as a time to restock their roster, one has to wonder when they’re going to do anything at all. We know they’ll do SOMETHING, but the question is which of two strategies they’ll employ. Will they outbid […]
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On the Giants’ “interest” in a “Melky reunion”
Proving that any report is possible (and plausible) this time of year, the Giants have “expressed interest” in a “Melky reunion,” according to Ken Rosenthal. There are baseball reasons to make this move, a reacquisition that once seemed impossible. For starters, the Giants’ best center fielder is Gregor Blanco (except he’ll play left field for Angel Pagan […]
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3.8K310 fun “facts” about the Giants-Pirates elimination game
Since LOL KNBR played the role of hype man with his Top 10 videos to fire you up about the San Francisco Giants making the playoffs, I’m going to be lazy and piggyback off his idea with a 10-part listicle of my own. Warning: some of these only *might* be true, which means they aren’t all […]
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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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4.1KPeavy and Ishikawa lead Giants to victory, just like Sabean and Bochy planned it all along
The Giants needed a game like this. After the debacle that was last night, when a 15-minute cloudburst turned into a four-hour rain delay and a loss, and a protest (more on that later), everyone associated with the Giants needed a game like this — the players, the coaches, the broadcasters, the fans, and especially […]
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Sabean speaks: Giants face reality with Cain, Peavy excited for NL return, sights now set on position players
Matt Cain is sort of like a younger version of Jake Peavy, but the main reason why they became teammates today is due to Cain’s elbow injury. Neither Brian Sabean nor Bruce Bochy said explicitly that Cain’s season is over, but it sure sounded that way. “The impetus to execute the trade was probably simply accelerated […]
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3.5K9Report: Giants interested in trading for Bartolo Colon
Update: According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, maybe we should pump the brakes on this whole Colon-to-the-Giants thing. I guess this isn’t THAT surprising, since Brian Sabean has said that they don’t want to add much (if any) guaranteed money to their already-bloated 2015 payroll. Been told #Sfgiants haven’t engaged #Mets on […]
