Roster Moves
109 of us probably just posted this but....
From Schulman:
The Giants have made a seismic shift in their personnel today. They optioned struggling second baseman Emmanuel Burriss to Triple-A Fresno and purchased the contract of 25-year-old infielder Matt Downs, who just took a terrific round of batting practice.
Burriss has been exceptional defensively but has not had a hit since June 4. Downs was hitting .288/.333/.453 with six homers and 38 RBIs with the Grizzlies. I presume he will be in the lineup tonight.
Catcher Steve Holm was designated for assignment to clear space on the 40-man roster for Downs.
Downs is in the lineup batting eiighth. Otherwise, the lineup is the same as yesterday's.
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I’m just glad they didn’t DFA Lincecum in the process.
Sergio Romo: striking out professional hitters since 2005. And winner of the 2012 NL Fireman of the Year Award!
by Lyle on Jun 16, 2009 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ask Churchill.
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Jun 16, 2009 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
“black Dog” refferance for the win.
Where is my beer & chili dog?
by daveinexile on Jun 17, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
When will Downs be up!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 16, 2009 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm...
…I was actually expecting Aurilia to be DFAed, but this works. Let’s hope Holm isn’t claimed and Molina injured….
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
is it really taking a chance?
a backup catcher like Steve Holm is incredibly replacable
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jun 16, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
For some reason...
….I can never remember that Whiteside (or whatever his name is) actually exists.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
I saw the end of this movie, he GIDP’s
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 16, 2009 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
The book was better because he intentionally struck out to save everyone from his GIDPs.
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I hope Manny has a good attitude about this demotion and spends the summer in Fresno working on his swing and playing at short every day. I’d love to see him back up in the majors in September.
And fare thee well, Steve Holm. For a nondescript backup catcher, you gave us some good moments while wearing the French Vanilla.
"Are we bad? No. But right now, we are." Boulderskull, 4.16.09
always nice to see a new face out there, but it still seems to me that this is bad news for this year. If Burriss could have kept going like he was a few weeks ago, it would have been an extra spark to the team. And I don’t care what the metrics say, the dude can field. Of course, the bad news had already happened – ofer 27 don’t lie – so no use crying now. Just don’t see Downs or Franny having the potential to become any kind of force out there. Maybe kenshin is right (see today’s fanposts): we need to deal for a 2ndbagger.
I think, unfortunately, Burriss is who we thought he is; a talented young guy that needs to work on his glove work so it evens out (without as many valleys) and needing a lot of work on his hitting approach. I’ll gaze into my crystal ball and say he will fix the first and the second (due to current organization philosophy) probably will not happen for a long while. In the mean time bring in the filler and see if we can get something better than shaky (uneven if you prefer) glove work and better than the OPS+ 49 – 65 range.
Where is my beer & chili dog?
by daveinexile on Jun 17, 2009 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Hard Truth
Burriss’s high point was well over a month ago now (May 10) and he still only had a .658 OPS. Dude wasn’t going to be sparking anything.
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that was meant to be a response to BigO
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
you're right
I was duped. But when a guy’s OPS climbs 200 points in the first 10 days of May, that’ll happen. I knew that he wasn’t going to have multiple hits every night, but I figured there might be a happy medium…
when a guy’s OPS climbs 200 points in the first 10 days of May that more than likely means he had a very very shitty OPS in April
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jun 17, 2009 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Downs tore it up in ST, I’m surprised Sabes didn’t put him on the team then.
Proud father of Barry Zito. As long as he keeps throwing strikes, that is.
And....
can pitch in those fifteen run blowouts :-)
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My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
“Downs was hitting .288/.333/.453 with six homers and 38 RBIs with the Grizzlies.”
meh… why are we excited about Downs? There’s probably something beyond those stats to get excited about.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
We’re excited because he is not Emmanuel Burriss
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Any thought that the move was done now, while Fransden was inelligible to be brought back up, as a message to him regarding his whining in the press?
No, they probably just didn’t like what they’ve seen from Burriss in the past few days and are shortsighted enough to have not sent him down when Frandsen was still with the big club.
by AndOnTheDrums... on Jun 17, 2009 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
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