Way over payroll, two CF’s, wow. Much more wrong with this.

-Trade Sanchez, Schierholtz, Garko for Granderson

Yeah, that’s not happening.

realistically

I’m not sure I see a single move there that both can and should happen.

New people are cute.

(Middle Infielder I’d Like’ta Trade)
But it ain’t gonna happen… not even for D-Train.

not only are most of those deals not realistic, I can’t imagine our GM, Mr. “fuck work let’s drink” pulling off that many roster moves during one off season.

/cries

ill never understand how people can think that putting a good player (sanchez) plus mediocre players together makes a perfect trade. A player that was horrible for the 2nd half of the season (Garko) and Schierholtz who hit around .214 the last 2 months of the season makes an ALL STAR player within reach. You would need to take out Garko and Schierholtz and start dropping in names like Neal, Kieschnick, Gillaspe, Crawford Ford (ehhh) and other people like that have some potential. We all over value our own prospects and I believe that most of us think that Schierholtz will be a player like he was in June and early July. But for a team trading an all star, they need proven quality or high up side players to consider that type of trade. Non of which we have extras to trade right now.

and besides from Neal the upside of Kieschnick, Gillaspe, Crawford and Ford is cloudy until they get at least another minor league season or two under their belts

where’s that you’ve aquired Eric Byrnes gif?

LOLFRED

istic, not so much

Try to make some upgrades in areas of significant failure (read: offense), while not giving away current advantages.

Applied to this team, that would presume we prioritize the outfield defense, hoping this past year’s ridiculously good results can be at least partially repeated, thus continuing to strengthen and support our pitching. This would require a good defensive player for right field, and trying to maintain at least adequate defense in left. With strong defense, our pitching core remains the same, with small additions made via cheap/free pickups that have some upside as strikeout/flyball type pitchers (i.e., the same variety that made this year’s pitching such a success). If any free agent pitcher is signed for more that $1 million, it should be a starter, not a reliever, in an attempt to repeat the improvement we saw from our 5th starters this year as compared to the year before.

Thus, maintaining as far as possible the current reasons for our success, we attempt to improve the area of real need by upgrading offense at one or more of our infield positions, preferably first base. This upgrade would be given priority in terms of payroll dollars and/or trade value, since it is the one place that can likely only be improved by those means.

What does that look like with names? I’m not positive, but outfield answer could include any number of cheaply available outfield bats with reasonable production and good defense, with Carl Crawford or Matt Holliday being the white whales that combine at least some positive defensive value with true offensive impact. Either would require a substantial cost, and likely prohibit any additional expensive moves in either prospects (in Crawford’s case) or cash (in Holliday’s case). In both cases, any proposed deal is likely to fall through for any number of reasons, so backup plans would be necessary.

The infield, despite being the place we could apparently most afford to sacrifice defense for offense (given our pitching staff) is unfortunately less flexible, with a modest upgrade already being paid for at 2B, and a clear impact hitter at 3B. This leaves SS and 1B, and SS can be improved only if Renteria’s cost is written off as a loss for the year. I honestly don’t know who could be acquired for 1B, but that would seem to be the obvious place to focus efforts for a real impact hitter to pair with Sandoval.

So trade Renteria back to the team that didn’t re-sign him? Yeah, okay.

his name is KingChronic and it was almost 420 when he wrote this…. haha

-Sign Jason Bay

-Sign Adrian Beltre

-Sign Jack Wilson

-Trade Renteria for Willis

-Trade Sanchez, Schierholtz, Garko for Granderson

-Sign Brian Schneider

-acquire Eric Byrnes

-aquire Jermey Accardo

I wouldnt be surprised if not one of these things happened

but I think this guy is just a troll or something; if you look at his other posts they’re similarly retarded and I have a hard time believing anyone can spend time on here and remain that stupid.

we’d probably have the same number of wins as we did this past year with this team, yawn!

On a more realistic front, what about an Adam LaRoche/Garko platoon at 1B? A little on the weak side defensively, but good offense. If the Giants can’t get Holliday or Bay, I’d like to see them get LaRoche over NJ and keep Pablo at 3B.

Rabbits are tasty.

Don’t know if the niners would be willing to do that

It’d be much cheaper to keep Garko instead of signing NJ, and the money saved could be used to give Bay the 4/70 contract I’m sure he’s looking for.

And I don’t think we should platoon him with ishi either. Even though Ishi is seen as the better choice vs righties, Garko’s career OPS against righties (715) is only 15 points less than Ishis (730), and Garko could probably benefit from being an everyday starter.

So my realist/ideal lineup opening day would be

1) Torres/Velez/Scheirholtz RF
2) F Sanchez 2B
3) Pablo 3B
4) Bay LF
5) Garko 1B
6) Posey C
7) Rowand C
8) Renteria P
9) SP

I think, realistically, that’s the best that can be hoped for.

I know the whole “realistic” label has been talked about a lot, but even the more realistic moves i’m not sure if I agree with. Accardo is a nontender candidate for the Jays, so if he;s available for free he’s an upgrade over Valdez. Even, so the bullpen shouldn’t be a focus, unless the team signs 1-2 relievers making less than 1 mil. With as much money as you are spending, you probably assuming that Wilson and Lincecum both take heavy discounts during extensions, which probably won’t happen.

There’s not much top caliber hitters in free agency left so I suggest to just keep the team as is and plug in the youngsters in place of Molina and Winn. Addition by subtraction, right? Maybe roll the dice on a few Juan Uribe type free agents like last offseason (cheap 1 year deal and had some sort of success in the past) and hope they can have Juan good year.

Ladies and gents, my opening day lineup after some hard and lubed-filled rosterbation:

CF Rowand – Yeah I went there, Bochy is still manager so very possible.

2B Sanchez – In his few at bats as a Giant last year, my complex baseball analysis concluded that he can hit.

3B Panda – Oh hi there, surprise to see you here.

SS Uribe – Jazz hands’ back with a fresh 2 year deal, bought a new house so no more Rent.
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1B Garko – Oh hi there, surprise to see you here instead of Ishikawa/Johnson/Beltre/LaRoche/Branyan/Snow.

LF Andruw Jones – Crazy? Maybe but he won’t command much money and would probably like to stick it to LA 18 times a year. I’m not sure if he can play left but Velez and Lewis are the only other “options”.

RF Schierholtz – Strong-armed all the competition in ST, still gloveless.

C Whiteside – Buster who? Bochy is still manager so very possible. [Cue little Posey on the bench alone]

P Lincecum – Same freak, same hair and moves to same street next to Zito’s McMansion.

is awesomely funny while you are tripping, but is embarrassingly sad when you wake up the next morning.
writing while high works for hip hop/ rap and thats about it
although some Beck songs have me wondering…

We all know the Yanks are going to sign Holliday and have a $250million payroll and win the WS again. I hate baseball!

I can’t wait until the Giants win it and ESPN and all of the duechebag sportswriters have to stop swinging on Arod and Tex. Time for Matt and Timmy and Jonothan and Madbum and Pablo to get some is coming.