I’d rather someone like Ochoa or Leone come up. Eh, whatever.

This should be interesting. Denker’s a bad defender also. But, the kid has plate discipline.

The best thing about Denker making it to the Majors is that we got him for Mark Sweeney. Take that, bums!

I want to see Denker play.

But, yeah, he should stay in AAA for awhile. But, hey, let’s see what he can do.

And, guys, I know many of us (including me) want Leone or McClain or Ochoa up. But it’s become obvious at this point that Giants management do not see them having a place on the current or future Giants team

I got to give credit to Baggarly – this was up on the blog this afternoon. Dude’s on it.

I hardly even know her!

I tired of Velez long ago…

There still is hope for EME and TI. This move is based on who is on the 40-man roster otherwise Brian Horwitz might be the player being promoted. Didn’t Denker strikeout a lot during spring training?

I do consider Eugenio Velez to be more of a “prospect” than Travis Denker. That “prospect” applies to both of them I guess. Both of them were in A ball for a few years and got promoted pretty quickly to the upper minors and the majors. But Velez can be a game changer if he can learn to get on base and learn to steal a few bags. Denker I don’t see as that, and at best he’s a bench player on a good team or 7th/8th place hitter on an ok team.

I never thought my half-hearted adoption of Mark Sweeney would ever amount to anything, or that the PTBNL would be decent, but what do you know!

Here’s an article from spring training from the local authority on sports, the SF Bay Guardian, about Denker. It’s not really that great of an article (except the quote by the 72-year old man: “He exudes a certain grittiness. He looks like he’s been in the majors for 15 seasons, not 15 minutes.” Gamer!) but apparently he was a sponsored skateboarder at age 4?!

I like what I’m seeing so far.

I’d rather Denker get more ABs in Fresno, but since he’s on the 40-man who else was going to come up? It’s sad because he won’t be seeing a lot of action, what with Aurilia and Durham “heating up.” I think Bochy will play those two old farts, if anything to boost what minimal trade value they have. Which means Denker’s going to ride the pine, and that sucks.

Sabean actually does read this blog

And then he does this:

Nasty Nate Schierholtz
Dangerous Dan Ortmeier
Jolting John Bowker

Please welcome… Tremendous Travis Denker !!!eleven

I don’t understand the irritation over this move. Leone and Ochoa are NOT the answer. Not only because they’re not on the 40 man roster, but they’re not prospects. Denker went to Triple A and got hot…..If your players suck, at least play the hot hand.

On Bocock going 0-5 with 3 Ks last night:

It’s like the Giants said to themselves, “Let’s destroy whatever shred of confidence he might have left after he hit .143 in 77 major league at-bats.” Except they probably wouldn’t have used that many big words. Bocock hit .220 in high-A ball last year. He belongs back there or in Double-A.

Brian Sabean has very little left to lose, so he can just keep running through young players, not caring what it’s going to do to them or the Giants down the line. Denker was hitting .314/.417/.510 in 51 at-bats for Fresno, but that was after he hit .184/.308/.263 in 76 at-bats in Double-A. He’s a fringe prospect without the glove for second base or the bat for third. It would do the Giants little harm to play him over Rich Aurilia and Jose Castillo. However, there’s no good reason to have both he and Manny Burriss on the roster.

I don’t get the motivation behind Denker coming up, unless he gets time at third and spares us from the tedium and ennui of watching dopey-faced Castillo suck over there. Let this be the case, with more John Bowker at first and the return of Hawaiian shirt Fridays.

As for Velez, yeah, I agree with sending him down. I hope he takes the time to get it right while he’s there.

A bit premature, for sure. I would like this move if and when we offload Aurilia and/or Durham. As long as these guys are taking ABs away from Denker, Burriss et al, there’s no sense in having them up.

This move only makes sense if Denker starts more games than not, particularly at the expense of Castillo and Aurilia. The chances of that are slim, thus, Brian Sabean is stupid.

I’m going to call him “Darling Denker Schoen”

The other night when he got picked off, I let out a loud “Uhhhhgggghhh!!!!!” to which my wife responded “What is the matter dear?”.

I then re-winded the DVR and called in my 11 year old son who has about 2 weeks of “non-Little League” experience (you know, where he got taught how to lead off of first base.) which was 2 years ago, and I asked him to tell my wife what Vel-f@$king-ez did wrong. My boy correctly informed her that Vel-f@$king-ez needed to make sure the pitcher’s plant foot started home before he went. This is the same 11 year old son who asked me “Wasn’t that Winn’s ball?” a couple of Sundays ago vs. the Reds. Good Boy.

Vel-f@$king-ez is a train wreck right now, and it cannot get better at this level. He is too screwed up in the head now to get it right, so down he must go. Hopefully he can relax, and reflect upon the learning experiences he has had in the show and get himself back into shape mentally.

Regarding Denker coming up? I have no opinion, so I’ll take the generally agreed upon attitude of “WTF Sabien!!!”.

“WTF Sabien”!!!

Denker, who becomes the youngest Giant at age 22, didn’t appear to be bound for the Majors when the season began. He hit .184 in 25 games with Double-A Connecticut. Yet, he was promoted to Triple-A Fresno after Burriss was summoned to the Giants in late April and regained his stroke, batting .315 in 17 games.

“Being in 30-degree weather every day doesn’t help,” Denker said, referring to his Connecticut stint. “I really didn’t feel like hitting when I was there.”

SF, please do not re-up.

Dr. Denkenstein

What do you mean bias? Not on the 40 man roster? Another over promotion? Piffle I say!