Jason Grilli's poised for a breakout season, isn't he?

Jerome Williams: I don't think he'll pitch particularly well, but you don't need to pitch well in the Nats' park to have an ERA under 4.

Carlos Villanueva: He was one of the two low-minor league relievers used to acquire Wayne Franklin and Leo Estrella in 2004. He had a 3.69 ERA in 53 IP for the Brewers last season.

Dennis Littlejohn. Fucker's gonna kill us.

Scott Munter...he'll come in with two on and one out to get a DP grounder with that (lawn) bowling ball sinker and BAM! Three-run...oh, you mean some scrub who will come back to haunt us from a new team?

he's gonna kill us this year.

When I talked with Jack Hyatt a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't even stifle a laugh when he busted out the "He is NOT Liriano" line about a certain young pitcher traded within the last 18 months.

Nathan's name didn't come up at all.

I'd share, but I'm running a business over there!

http://sfgiants.scout.com/2/629921.html

Still got part three coming up later this week.

Joe Nathan is an open wound in the heart of all Giants fans.
Hopefully Magowan re-sings him as a free agent in 2008.

The next Joe Nathan? Salomon Torres has turned into a dominant reliever for the Pirates. Giants could use ole' Torres right about now.

Jason Schmidt vs. Matt Morris. Hmmm... where should the G.M. have allocated those funds? Jason could come back to haunt the Giants. For this Season, Jason Schmidt costs $500,000 less than Dave Roberts ($5m) + Pedro Feliz  ($5.1m) + Sweeney ($900,000).

Sabean is in a fucking slump. The Giants should have Schmidt in the rotation, more AB's going to Linden & Klesko, and those three crappy contracts off the books. Dave Roberts and Bengie Molina in 2009 will not be pretty.

from Rotoworld:

Bonser has a 2.86 ERA and a 24/4 K/BB ratio in 22 innings, giving the Twins some reason for optimism that they could have a second above average starter in their rotation.

check out the game he pitched against the Yankees today. Two runs in six innings with 7 strikeouts. I guess Sabean can pray he gets hurt as well. Certainly the Liriano voodoo doll worked fine.

That trade is starting to look like the notorious Herschel Walker trade--Walker to the Vikings in exchange for a Super Bowl team in Dallas--only this could ultimately be worse because at least Walker isn't a smegma gump wad like Pierkczkiznkczizy. The only thing preventing the analogy from holding is if the Twins never win a World Series with those arms on the roster.

I'M the next Nathan.

It's gotta be accardo, he's gonna set up BJ Ryan this year

Okay, if we're judging a player on his ability and not on what some GM has done:

I'll say it now, the next Nathan is Jesse Foppert.

Both were moderately successful starters in the minors, and who had some troubles in the majors as starters.

Both missed significant time due to injury and TJ Surgery.

Both produced significantly worse in the minors immediately upon their return.

If Nathan gets his mechanics back in whack, I could see him going to relief and learning to burn the other team there.

Just sayin'.