Winter Ball

by giantsgirl510 on Sep 24, 2008 10:57 PM PDT

Does anyone know which Giants are heading to winter ball? So far Noah Lowry will pitch in Mazatlan, Mx, and Kevin Frandsen, Emmanuel Burris are going to AZ Instructional league. I know other players are going to different countries....?? Oh and does anyone here go and check it out??? I would if i could... ok

Anyway to make it to 75 words am sad that baseball season is almost over... but am excited for 2009....

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Posey's going to Hawaii

Noonan. Nooooonan!

by Giant Fan in Singapore on Sep 24, 2008 11:25 PM PDT 0 recs

i remember reading that EB was the first pick of some latin winter league but he might not play

i thought it was via Baggs but i couldnt find anything with emmanuel burris tagged that was about his winter baseball plans

waiting for 2011....

by Osama91w9 on Sep 24, 2008 11:59 PM PDT 0 recs

Kieschnick is also going to Hawaii, if I remember correctly from a previous post about this

Noonan. Nooooonan!

by Giant Fan in Singapore on Sep 25, 2008 1:51 AM PDT 0 recs

http://www.sfdugout.com/content/publish/majors/Giants_Announce_Fall_League_Rosters_Posey_to_Hawaii_Burriss_to_Arizona.shtml

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by BruteSentiment on Sep 25, 2008 2:39 AM PDT 0 recs

Anyone know what the extent of Crawford’s injury was?

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Sep 25, 2008 6:58 AM PDT 0 recs

Lowry had a setback and might not make it to the winter league.

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080925&content_id=3544370&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf

Left-hander Noah Lowry is experiencing discomfort behind his throwing elbow, which has temporarily stopped his comeback efforts, manager Bruce Bochy said Wednesday.

Bochy said that Lowry, who will undergo further tests, won’t participate in the early portion of the Mexican Winter League schedule for Mazatlan, as he had planned. Bochy didn’t rule out Lowry’s participation later in the season.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 7:30 AM PDT 0 recs

I am pretty sure Noah is toast.

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 25, 2008 8:29 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah, most likely. This is why signing pre-arb deals can be good for players.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 8:32 AM PDT up 0 recs

He’ll be making $4.5M next year and he made $2.25M this year.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 8:33 AM PDT up 0 recs

If he can’t play next year, the Giants will have paid him more for each of the 2 years he didn’t pitch for them than for the five years he did put together.

Scott McClain: Great story, no place on the 2009 Giants.

by EliminateMe on Sep 25, 2008 10:01 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yes tiny Tim. Sign.
Please sign.
PPPllllllllleeeeeaaaaasse , with sugar on top, sign.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 25, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

I got the results from Noah Lowry's lates MRI:

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up 0 recs

Happy toast?

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

Apparently.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2008 2:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

what happened to Lowry?

I mean why did he just lose the ability to strike people out all of a sudden? Chanegup get too predicatable? Lost velocity? Poor control got even worse?

Do you Wazzel?

by NeifiChicken on Sep 25, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up 0 recs

Control problems as a side effect of his arm turning to jello.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up 0 recs

Lowry’s biggest problem was that he stopped striking people out:

2004: 7.04 K/9, 2.74 BB/9.
2005: 7.55 K/9, 3.34 BB/9.
2006: 4.74 K/9, 3.16 BB/9.
2007: 5.02 K/9, 5.02 BB/9.

He also had control problems in 2007, but it looks to me like the real decline started between 2005 and 2006. That kind of a drop in K’s just isn’t supposed to happen, especially to a 26 y-o. IIRC, Lowry had a pretty bizarre oblique injury in the beginning of 2006. That’s probably a big part of his decline.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 25, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up 0 recs

I actually graphed his BB% and K% last year. It’s not pretty.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

It’s pretty sad. He really was a good pitcher in 2005 and 2006. When he was 25 he was about as good as Cain is right now.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 25, 2008 12:38 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah, the section around July of ’07 is where the wheels came off.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

I still remember his changeup when he started, thing of beauty.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:42 PM PDT up 0 recs

Actually I meant 2004 and 2005. He was already bad in 2006.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 25, 2008 12:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah, the 90-some innings in ’04 and his ’05 season are his peaks.

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by xanthan on Sep 25, 2008 12:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

BlahBlah Guiterrez, I mean, Amy Guiterrez, gave a list of those bound for the fall and winter leagues last night on the broadcast. I was too busy telling her to STFU and throwing things at my television to catch it all, however. I thought I heard something about John Bowker going to one of the Caribbean leagues.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2008 8:15 AM PDT 0 recs

Were ever it is I hope they throw lots of junk pitches. IMHO its his only hope.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 25, 2008 8:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

Bowker will learn...

I hope?

God, he would be awesome if he just learned…

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 25, 2008 9:24 AM PDT up 0 recs

seconded.

Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!

by daveinexile on Sep 25, 2008 9:35 AM PDT up 0 recs

Romo...

said last night he’ll be playing for MexiCali of the Mexican League…

Uncle Sabes...How much longer til we get there?

by NorCalGiant on Sep 25, 2008 10:07 AM PDT 0 recs

mexicali

I think it’s cool that they named a town after a Grateful Dead song. Handy location for Romo. The club site lists his home town as Brawley, that’s 25 miles away. Isn’t his dad a water engineer or something? If we get real real bored this winter we could improve wikipedia on these guys.

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by foothillsfan on Sep 25, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up 0 recs