Ryan Vogelsong
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3.6K1Giants’ trade deadline dance with the Dodgers gets boost with Cueto headed to KC
What’s similar about these two tweets, other than both came from baseball writers employed by Fox? The five teams to express recent interest in #Phillies’ Hamels, according to sources: #Dodgers, #Cubs, #Rangers, #Yankees, #SFGiants. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 25, 2015 In David Price market, #SFGiants#Dodgers and #BlueJays may be better fits than #Cubs. My […]
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3.5K13Giants have many starting pitchers, should trade for one more
“This is our rotation, what we have right now,” said Bruce Bochy. “We’re going to run with it.” It was a totally vanilla postgame quote after another snoozer in San Diego (your home for boring baseball since 2008). There’s no reason for Bochy to let opposing clubs know they’re dying for a healthy starter with […]
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2.5K1Giants starters answered some rotation questions this week
Just for fun, I’m going to write something that’ll piss off the Small Sample Size Police Dept. Because if you can’t piss off the uber-correctors, the people who get joy from being better at staring at numbers than everyone else and letting the world know, then what is the point in maintaining a regional sports […]
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3.1K2Giants’ top 8 most surprising May performances
This is getting a little ridiculous. A record of 20-7. 5.15 runs scored per game while allowing just 3.37. Four straight home shutouts. They’re hitting .298/.352/.446 as a team, including pitchers, partly because Madison Bumgarner has registered an OPS of .879 … so far. His next start is scheduled for May 31. All of the […]
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2.1K4Giants win seventh straight, Vogelsong and Belt loving life in May
We could focus on how this was a very Coorsy game. There was a rain delay in the bottom of the ninth that lasted an hour and 44 minutes, and the Giants won 11-8 after taking a 7-0 lead in the seventh inning. But we’ve seen a bunch of Coorsy games over the years. We […]
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3.0K6Giants are in surprisingly good shape, considering
The good news just keeps on coming for the San Francisco Giants. What’s good today? Casey McGehee is out of this morning’s lineup after grounding into his 12th double play last night in the Giants’ 11-2 throttling of the Reds. Sorry, I kid poor Casey, who I think will come out of this awful stretch […]
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2.5K7Giants notes: Who Pence and Ishikawa might replace … and is Vogey back?
Just like we can’t count the Giants out as a team, we’ve seen too many moments where Ryan Vogelsong pulled himself out of the baseball abyss to give up on him in April or May. That’s why, unlike several frustrated fans during his horrible start against the Dodgers when he allowed four homers, I didn’t […]
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2.5K9Giants’ weaknesses on full display in loss to L.A.
It’s way too early to look at the Giants’ record (8-12 after Monday night’s 8-3 loss to the Dodgers) and project a .400 winning percentage throughout the entire season. Buster Posey’s slugging percentage won’t be under .350 all year, either. A 20-game sample isn’t all that telling in baseball, unless it’s the postseason. Yet if the […]
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3.0K7Unlucky 13: How much longer can the Giants keep an extra pitcher?
The Giants are actually 13th in Major League Baseball in batting average, which means they’re in the upper half. Hooray! Yet they’re hitting .231, and it’s a punchless .231 at that. Boo. The worry going into this season was that their rotation would collapse under the weight of injuries, overuse and a lack of true […]
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3.0K11Giants’ rotation is what we thought it was (except not really at all)
The Giants owe a debt of gratitude to Clayton Kershaw, both for keeping their business model (“We’re the opposite of the A’s, because our shit works in the playoffs”) looking golden and calming everyone down about Madison Bumgarner. I’ll admit it: Bumgarner’s shortest outing in years against the Padres would’ve looked a lot worse (to […]
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2.7K8Giants lose another player, lose 7-6 to D-Backs
The good news is that the soul of this team hasn’t vanished. This is the same group of fiery, talented players that we remember from October, and they gave Arizona a scare after falling behind 7-4. The bad news is a lot of these players have already gotten injured, and the questions about their starting […]
