i feel the need for patience because he is young, relatively speaking to service, if not solar years.
in two months, if he hasnt learned from his mistakes, then i might start shuffling his papers into the pedro feliz file

He’s like the “Showgirls” of major league hitters.

Damn. You’re having a good week.

Velez is one of those guy who, at this point, makes sense only for the Giants, as he probably wouldn’t be in the line up anywhere else. He’s likely to be just a utility guy who can’t field, but he’s got a smidgen of upside that merits regular playing time for awhile longer.

It’s a weird way to feel about a player: He’s not really any good and probably won’t be, but I want to see him play anyway. You know, just in case. Plus, he signed a ball for my son in spring training.

Velez had about as miserable a game as you can have on Sunday, but I think the important thing will be to see how he reacts to that. I hope Bochy pencils him back into the lineup (though maybe, just maybe, we have better options on the roster to lead off/bat second.)

Any reason why any of these four prospects are plying their trade in The City rather than the minor leagues? What have any of them done that has earned them a spot in The Show? Give them time to learn/develop their craft in the minors.

Random non-sensical semi-content? Give us some legit content!

don’t you mean “if not later”?

when a tie after 9 innings is settled by a foot race.

Otherwise, not so much.

But his minor league track record isn’t a tremendous one.

Optimists! His BABIP is pretty low for a guy with his speed that hits the ball on the ground as much as he does (GB% of 59%). He needs to work on getting walks (His BB% of 3.9% is lower than Pedro Feliz’s career BB% of 5.1%) and trying to hit more line drives (which is probably easier said than done). His LD% of 14.5% seems pretty low.

I think it comes down to that it’s really a wash between Velez and Durham right now so I’d probably continue to start Velez for the meantime. As rough of a defender as Velez has been, he’s played better at 2B defensively than Durham has.

i’m not sure how much Frandsen’s injury affected things. If Frandsen’s healthy, I’d think he’d be at 3B and the team would still have the Durham or Velez decision at 2B.

Grant, to be fair to Velez, you should have mentioned how well he runs.

I’m so glad you’re finally over that whole “legitimate content” phase.

And I admit that, despite being a Velez-backer for the last 2 years, I think I’ve had my fill of Eugenio. Granted, when the choice is between him and Ray Durham, seppuku seems a much more pleasant option. But, as stated by several folks above, we can be reasonably certain that Durham will not get any better, so maybe Velez might, and he should play. I was one of those who predicted he’d start more than 100 games this year for the Giants, and I still think that will happen. I just now see that as a less pleasant experience than I had hoped.

The Frandsen injury really threw a wrench in the works at 2B. At least it prevented him from being wasted at 3B – and it had the added benefit of reminding us all how poorly Mr. Sabean has done in replacing Matthew Evan Williams at the hot corner.

And have I mentioned how much I want us to draft Gordon Beckham in the first round, and a likely slugging 3B (or even better, a slugging SS)? No, I didn’t think I had….

The sheer number of posts bemoaning the lack of Frandsen serves to illustrate how truly bad this team is.

With Dreamy coming back possibly soon (I read somewhere possibly this weekend) and Bocock going back to the minors, is there a possibility that they try Burris out at second. Unfortunately I know nothing of Burris’s minor league career, but I am assuming the guy can play second.

God help me, every time I see E. Velez on the scoreboard I get scared that it’s actually Edgardo Velez. It’s some kind of post-traumatic symptom or something….

Boy I’m glad we don’t have that guy anymore!

Eugene Velez (screw that “ay-you-hay-knee-oh” stuff—the man’s a Eugene) is an idiot. For me, that just flat-out disqualifies someone from further consideration and employment. He doesn’t understand the basics of the game, and here he is at the major league level. He fields a ball in shallow right field, and the runner on 2nd takes the pro forma two steps toward third… Eugene, having never paid attention during boyhood games, fires the ball to the shortstop, risking a needless error. (Even Krukow criticized him for it on the air.) He doesn’t know to fall on that game-winning grounder in Philly if he can’t field it cleanly in his glove? Like, he didn’t understand the situation and hadn’t thought out what to do if these six things happen?

Generally, skills can improve (or not), but guys who simply don’t grasp the mechanics of the game by the time they hit the majors simply don’t pan out. If the Giants are going to start administering drug tests, how about also giving some baseball knowledge tests as well?