Wow, not good to hear about Brad. I hope it’s nothing too serious.

Sabean’s love of experience and moxie doesn’t stop at the playing field. Describing the front office reorg that went on this winter, he said “the great thing is we now have a whole room of veterans—guys who’ve been around the block.” One of those veterans Ed Creech (former Director of Scouting for the Pirates) was directly responsible for bringing in Jose Castillo, who the Giants are very happy with.

THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THIS PARAGRAPH THAT DOES NOT FILL ME WITH EPIC LULZ.

The Hennessey stuff worries me, with his past health issues. It worries me on a personal level, totally removed from baseball. Get yourself healthy, please, Brad.

Glad people are hopping on board the Hinshaw bandwagon. I like this guy. It sort of sucks that Pereira threw so well Sunday when I was in Fresno because I would have liked to see Hinshaw and/or Espineli (Fresno’s other lights-out lefty reliever) throw.

Didn’t Hennessey have some type of cancer early on?
A tumor in his back or something weird like that?

FYI, XM 175 replays the show for the west coast.

Sabean’s interview will re-air in the 8 to 9am PST hour.

roger, thanks for the report, I for one have low tech radio and would never get this news otherwise. Maybe we can swap Tidrow for a hitting scout. Or cooperate with another team along those lines.
On Hennessey—that’s candid of Sabe to tell us about the weight loss. You’d think Brad and those close to him and the team doctors would get started on medical testing quickly. Even in baseball terms, he wasn’t doing anything useful in the bullpen anyway, why not deal with basic health issues.

Surprisingly, Sabean seemed to place a lot of faith in Lowry’s role in the Giant’s rebuilding process over the next couple of years. Lowry’s “a proven winner who we’re really missing right now” and who’s return will make the team much better. (Personal aside, that strikes me as crazy talk in several different ways).

From the most recent reports after having seen Dr Andrews, it sounds as though they’ve determined that Lowry doesn’t have serious structural damage and the nerve problems should get better if he rests it for a month. This, coupled with Sabean’s comments, seem to suggest that Lowry is expected to get better and perform well again.

pleased with jose castillo???? now that just pisses me off

Wonder what Tidrow thinks of Matusz, Crow and Scheppers. Would be nice if Alvarez dropped into Giants lap. Hinshaw is dealing in Fresno. SF has many arms it could trade this summer, it would be interesting to see what value they could get in return.

“Sabes thinks the Giants are the most improved team in baseball right now (from ST to now, I’d assume he meant).”

By that reasoning, you could show up at work drunk, puke on your bosses desk, sexually harass your secretary, and pass out naked on the conference table, and still be called “the most improved employee” of the day, as long as you wake up and start answering your phone before lunchtime.

He finally sees Gordon Beckham, and the G-man has a bad game?? Yikes. You know Brian “First Impression” Sabean, he’ll never get over that. It’s like Randy Winn in reverse. I can only hope the UGA/Vandy game has Beckham hitting a couple of massive homers, making three brilliant defensive plays, and ends with Gordo in CF (that is how you catch Brian’s eye, isn’t it?).

There are some things that were good to hear in that interview and some things that really bothered me.

The fact that Sabean is pleased with Castillo’s performance bothers me. However, he could have meant that he is thankful that he at least has a third basemen. I don’t know.

A part of me wants to believe that Sabean isn’t always honest in these interviews…..

Lol at tidrow stopping sabean from going to watch lincecum. Sounds like Billy Beane and Nick Swisher in Moneyball.