Subtlety

...oh well.

I like raisins.

The larger issue, of course, is the team's careful preparation to maintain a continuting supply of shortstop competence: Joe Jester, Edwin Maldonado, Elliot Strankman, Jamie Athas, Mickey Miranda, Kevin Kelly, Tim Hutting, Jeff Palumbo, Jeremiah Luster, Anthony Contreras, and Mark Minicozzi. All the while employing Mike Benjamin, Steve Scarsone, Kim Batiste, Jay Canizaro, Wilson Delgado, Jose Vizcaino, Rey Sanchez, Ramon Martinez, Cody Ransom, Neifi Perez, Deivi Cruz, Angel Chavez, and Tomas De La Rosa.

So no, I don't see any problem. None at all.

Man, I love subtlety.

Any way you slice it, we're going to lose some of those guys, unless we do something really, really stupid like send better pitchers (i.e. Sanchez, Wilson, etc.) down to the minors just because they have options left.

If I were Sabes, to maximize my returns, I'd trade two or three of the above names to people for short-season league pitchers with plus fastballs.  Or Ben Zobrist.

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The Giants will trade WAY too much for Zobrist, he'll come over, do a fine job filling in for Omar for the first 2 weeks of the season, then Omar will return and he'll get stuck on the bench, wasting away, not getting enough regular playing time to really develop. And then he'll be ruined.

The Giants will ruin you, Ben Zobrist.

Ruin you.

And I'm going to stray off topic, but I wanted to say, since no one else wants to, but I actually like Pat Misch. I saw him pitch only twice last season, but there was something there. I swear it. I swear I saw that something.

If we include Misch in some BS trade, mark my words, we'll regret it.

WE'LL TOTALLY REGRET IT!

Okay.

He's done ok in the minors. But at the Trop, where most young hitters have come up and prospered, he's put up an average of .200 and an OPS od .503 in 200 ab's. I'd rather just give Burris or Bocock a shot.

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his one drawback is that defensively, he is average at best. I would call him dependable, but his range is very limited. he won't make a lot of errors, but he won't make any great plays either.

Offensively, his major league numbers have yet to show his minor league potential, but part of that is a lack of regular playing time. He has never looked over-matched and I think he will be fine. I can see him hitting .280 with a .380 OBP most years. and one or two years he may get hot and hit .320/.410.

the reason he is out of a job in Tampa Bay is bc the Rays were attrociious defensively last year, and made one of their priorities this off-season. So they went and traded for Bartlett who was just as important to the Rays as Garza in the Delmon Young trade.

in the end, the Giants could do much worse than Zobrist.