A) not even Sabes is that dumb
B) with the way he’s pitched and is rapidly becoming the “face of the franchise” ownership thought Zito would be, Sabean’s superiors wouldn’t let him trade Lincecum
C) LIncecum for Rios may have been worthy of consideration by some over the winter. Now though, unless the Brewers wanted to ditch Ryan Braun or some other team some equally dominant youngster, I don’t think anyone would trade Timmy. Before the thinking was if he stays healthy he could develop into a Cy Young contender. But since the season has started he’s pitched well enough to be in contention right now. Make no mistake about it, the price tag on Lincecum has gone up to the point where he’s virtually untradeable.

Other than that… I sure hope Brian isn’t dumb enough to try trading prospects for vets at this point. Now if he wants to trade prospects for other youngsters closer to the bigs/guys who are blocked? I guess I could see that, so long as we were getting guys who had a chance to stick.

I hope you don’t mean to say that you think the Lincecum for Rios trade would be revisited, only something along those lines? Because even Sabean’s not stupid enough to trade Lincecum now. He’s clearly the Giants’ best player.

This Giants team will never go into a protracted losing streak (because of Cain and Lincecum), but as Schulman pointed out they’re on a pace to lose 93 games, and at some point they’re going to lose in bunches and Sabean will stop sniffing the glue and wake up to reality. I really can’t see him holding on to Winn, provided a) Winn can keep his trade value at a moderate level, b) he’s offered a decent prospect in return for him, and c) Winn is willing to waive his NTC.

At least I hope that’s the case…

If that is indeed what he said, he’s still not in touch with reality. If he has a solution for 3B, he should put that player on the roster and let Bochy use him. Same for 1B.

Sometimes, you just have to laugh to keep from crying.

I wrote about this article this morning.

/shameless plug

http://www.baycityball.com/2008/05/15/crawling-inside-the-headspace-that-is-brian/

/shameless plug

I just don’t-understand-him sometimes.

that is a sad sad state of affairs.
fresh batch of frownies indeed.

Isn’t our projected record 69-93? How does that indicate contention?

What hurts a lot is when Sabean says “We’ve got a solution at third.” WTF.

hear that everybody? my boy’s done good!

{ducks}

I’m fine with Sabean saying nice things about his players in the media - hey, I’d like my boss to say nice things about me - but for him to call this team “one of the most improved” is more than a bit disingenuous. They’re only “improved” if your expectations were incredibly low, like if you thought they’d win 60 games this year instead of 70. Lewis is a nice surprise partially because Bochy buried him and lots of the rookies on the bench last year, but the Roberts injury forced his hand this season. Sabean shouldn’t give himself credit for improving the team if he was largely responsible for assembling such a mismatched collection of players the previous few seasons.

I mean even Sabean can’t be delusional enough to think most of these line ups were what he had in mind even as far ago a March 1st. That’s enough beating that dead horse.

I do like the Rios mention. I see people posting Crede’s stats so far but not a peep about Rios. I can imagine if he had that this May’s stats (BA/OBP/SLG 177/215/290 so far) here after trading Tim? It would have made A.J. look like happy fluffy bunny bed story time.

GM Brian Sabean is so pre-occupied with the draft,as well he should be. Talk with him again towards the end of June.