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2015 MLB Season Thread

Silencio said:
Really, it was Roger Craig who brought the swagger back to SF after near two decades of irrelevance in the 70s and 80s. Dusty was the first base coach and hitting coach under Craig. Bake did a decent job, but had a few maddening lapses in crucial situations that tarnished his legacy (*Salomon Torres in Game #162 in 1993? Game 6 of the 2002 World Series?). Just makes me all the more grateful we have Bruce Bochy, who always seems to be prepared when the chips are down, knows his personnel and puts them in positions to succeed.

Regular season baseball and postseason baseball are two different beasts. Since 2010, the Giants have been reasonably good at the former, and unbelievably good at the latter. In October, it's all about doing the little things, minimizing mistakes, and getting the most out of the bullpen. The Giants clearly excel at all of those things.

We're finally seeing the Brandon Belt I expected was there all along. He's no J.R. Phillips, folks. Just avoid those flukey injuries that derailed him last season.

Chris Heston may not let Peavy have his job back.

Bumgarner has sufficiently proven he's a better "big game" pitcher than Kershaw.
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well done, well put. i love dusty but i felt he was a **** manager.

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* Torres gets his first hit as a big leaguer vs the Bodgers and immediately gets picked off first with the old hidden ball trick. i was screaming at the telly, "he's still got the ball!!"... he he he idiot.
 
its June 5th, almost half way thru the season.
<--------------- Guess which team in FIRST PLACE in the NL East? :D
 
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Centaurr said:
its June 5th, almost half way thru the season.
<--------------- Guess which team in FIRST PLACE in the NL East? :D
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First place in the NL East but half the team is call-ups from AAA at this point. Soup, Ceciliani, Muno, Plawecki, Syndergaard and some of the BP. Not sure how long these guys can keep it going.
 
hallux said:
First place in the NL East but half the team is call-ups from AAA at this point. Soup, Ceciliani, Muno, Plawecki, Syndergaard and some of the BP. Not sure how long these guys can keep it going.
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And? call ups are normal, its called a "farming" system, all teams do it...whatever it takes, a win's a win.
 
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And? call ups are normal, its called a "farming" system, all teams do it...whatever it takes, a win's a win.
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SF did that a lot but to replace some good players who got hurt, more than most years. What we then expected was to keep even, but did well.

It's still much better to have premier players stay healthy than call up too many farm players and cross fingers.
 
pachyderm said:
it is almost as if you don't understand how baseball works...
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Oh, I understand how baseball works. The Farm system feeds the big club. However, when you have half your BP injured and several every-day players are injured you have quite a few call-ups from the minors to fill in, not all ready for prime-time and can't keep up the pace of the majors for an extended period as they're being asked to.
 
I am so pleased overall with Heston (3.77 ERA). I thought he was a temporary fix but may turn out to be a real starter. It's early though and if we could have Madbum, Timmy, Cain, Hudson, Heston, Vogelsong, and Peavy healthy then we can make a serious run at another postseason. With Aoki and Pagan up, we have all but replaced Sandoval.
 
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I'd say Matt Duffy has done a fine job replacing Sandoval so far. When it was clear the Panda wouldn't re-sign, I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to give him a shot at the starting job instead of overpaying in the free agent or trade market. His current OPS is over 100 points higher than Sandovals — and Chase Headley's, for that matter. The less said about Casey McGehee, the better.
 
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Back on the field... How about them Mets!? Stopped an 11-game win streak, held a team to just 3 runs that had been averaging over 8 runs per game in the previous 11, and 11 strike out by the Mets starter. It was a fun game to watch. VERY impressed that they came back and won it, last year's team wouldn't have come back they would have tuck their tails and looked to the next game.
 
Plenty of stupid go go around. Lunhow should've changed his password. Cards FO employees shouldn't have been snooping around. Sounds like there were accusations that Lunhow took proprietary information from his time with the Cardinals to the Astros. Cards should've gotten lawyers involved instead of playing CSI: St. Louis. If it turns out that this was all low level FO employees with a personal vendetta against Lunhow, I don't think the Cards are going to get the punishment most people are expecting and hoping for. They'll get something though probably.
 
yg17 said:
Plenty of stupid go go around. Lunhow should've changed his password. Cards FO employees shouldn't have been snooping around. Sounds like there were accusations that Lunhow took proprietary information from his time with the Cardinals to the Astros. Cards should've gotten lawyers involved instead of playing CSI: St. Louis. If it turns out that this was all low level FO employees with a personal vendetta against Lunhow, I don't think the Cards are going to get the punishment most people are expecting and hoping for. They'll get something though probably.
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Had they found that he did take proprietary information, they probably would have gotten lawyers involved anyway. So, not only did they hack into the the Astros database, they did it for no reason.

That said, no matter who did it (low level or otherwise), information about the Astros was leaked last year which makes it go from a stupid scheme to downright d-baggy. If I was the other organizations, I would think twice before dealing with the Cardinals. I'm sure some lackey will go down for it, but when information about possible trades leak, you have to think that the top guys know about it as well.

This is a serious offense, and makes the Cardinals look awful.
 
yg17 said:
Plenty of stupid go go around. Lunhow should've changed his password. Cards FO employees shouldn't have been snooping around. Sounds like there were accusations that Lunhow took proprietary information from his time with the Cardinals to the Astros. Cards should've gotten lawyers involved instead of playing CSI: St. Louis. If it turns out that this was all low level FO employees with a personal vendetta against Lunhow, I don't think the Cards are going to get the punishment most people are expecting and hoping for. They'll get something though probably.
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The Cardinals committed corporate espionage. You better believe they're going to get the book thrown at them.
 
yg17 said:
Before today, what made them dirty?
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I agree with you. I liked the way the organization ran things (until the issue of being suspected of "hacking" another team). They drafted what they needed and didn't sell the farm system to make trades. I seem to recall it being mentioned someplace that many of their young players over the last few years were ones that they drafted and developed themselves. That's very respectable.
 
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