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Fangraphs draft review for your San Fracisco Giants.
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That’s funny
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jun 7, 2009 10:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Also, Mike McBryde read this article this morning and promptly HR’d to try and prove Fangraphs wrong.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jun 7, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
what’s also funny is that Wendell Fairley hit a homerun yesterday too. Maybe they should start ripping the major leaguers too.
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by rxmeister on Jun 7, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That was a weird comment about him. The worst pick of the 2006 draft was a 5th round pick who will most likely have a “career as a triple-A outfielder and occasional injury fill-in at the MLB level”? He’s a 5th round pick!
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
:-(
by Cookyman on Jun 7, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
McBryde hit two more homeruns today. He must REALLY be mad.
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by rxmeister on Jun 7, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I forgot how many early picks we had in 07, at least a few have worked out so far
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by CB30 on Jun 7, 2009 10:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No mention of Kieschnick for 08? And Fairley a worse pick than Williams or Culberson?
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
by thehavenot on Jun 7, 2009 10:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
At least Williams is sucking in AA. Fairley is like 22 and sucking in low-A ball.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Jun 7, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
TOOLSY
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by CB30 on Jun 7, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Culberson and his errors?
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
by thehavenot on Jun 7, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Culberson is still like 19, I guess. They were both terrible picks, you could flip a coin.
Though, actually, I think you could at least justify the Fairley pick – he has tools, some scouts liked him.
Culberson, not so much.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Jun 7, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, that's my thinking
Culberson and Williams were clear over picks (and wastes of those picks, to be real).
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
by thehavenot on Jun 7, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Honestly, if we hadn’t struck gold with Alderson and MadBum, this could’ve been the worst draft by any organization ever. What a waste..
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by lmaozedong on Jun 7, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i could say that about any teams draft
I don’t have any statistics to back this up, but you usually only end up with 1 or 2 major leaguers out of each draft(or at least that’s what it looks like).
by superk1ng on Jun 7, 2009 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He should have said.
If the Giants hadn’t gone cheap oafter the first two picks, the 2007 draft could have been something truly special instead of just really good (so far).
Besides, it would be tough to steal the “Worst Draft Day” Title from Sabean’s 1998 effort. 8 picks in the first three rounds, 5 in the 1st/supplemental, and Nate freaking Bump was the best of the bunch.
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by Bhaakon on Jun 7, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Worst draft ever?
You’d have to try pretty hard to get worse than Nats 2001 draft, and that’s just from a few minutes’ searching…
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by EliminateMe on Jun 8, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yup, Fairley was a reasonable pick that hasn’t worked out, Culberson & Williams were poor picks.
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by GiantFan on Jun 8, 2009 3:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know about worst, but Fairley is the most dissappointing.
I had basically zero expectations for either Jackson or Culberson from draft day. It’s not a very insightful article if the author spends all his time bashing obvious signability picks (it’s not a very interesting article anyway, but I digress).
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by Bhaakon on Jun 7, 2009 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
they list shortstop as one of the Giants organizational strengths?
that is just laughably incorrect
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jun 7, 2009 12:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I guess they really like Crawford
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Jun 7, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I guess they like him enough that they consider him 3 or 4 different players
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jun 7, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Adrianza still has teh upside, too.
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
by oldjacket on Jun 7, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bocock adds depth. And girth.
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
:-(
by Cookyman on Jun 7, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
matzek
Unless the video I just saw was actually of someone else, he’s left-handed, not right-handed.
Less arm, more talk. Raisingcain is a GAMER.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
by raisingcain on Jun 7, 2009 2:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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