Giants Season Preview

I take it that you meant “the worst offense in major league baseball”.

JD Sussman: In 2009, the Giants had, by far, the worst defense in Major League Baseball.

I know UZR isn’t a perfect metric, but I believe the Giants had the fourth highest UZR in the majors in 2009. The defense was a strong point.

I assume you meant the offense was terrible in ’09, which is a much easier statement to agree with. Unfortunately, I doubt the offensive “upgrades” will mean more wins, especially when defensive regression is taken into consideration.

I think you might have meant worst offense

Is it possible that you meant the worst OFFENSE and not the worst DEFENSE? Because I think that’s probably what you meant. I don’t know if anyone’s brought this up yet, but I figured I’d let you know.*

Generally in agreement; I didn’t like the DeRosa signing at all, because the last thing we need is more 30+ year olds with recent injuries. But the staff will make this team a contender, and if the lineup can do something, anything, we’ve got a shot at the postseason. And Runzler and Romo are probably better closer candidates than Waldis Joaquin.

*GOOFUS WUZ RITE!

Mainly because I agree with 99% of it.

I agree with pretty much everything, except that Uribe is defensively the same as Freddy Sanchez. Outside of that, yeah. And thinking about the trades last year just makes me sad. And why keep F. Sanchez but not Garko? Bah.

For the entire season, they had just three hitters who were above replacement level.

Do you mean above average? And if you park-adjust their wOBA’s (like at statcorner.com), more than three Giants were above average last season.

Are you guys Giants fans? If not, screw you guys for slamming our team! Only we can slam our team like that.

(Eliminateme refers to this as the “only we can beat up our little brother” syndrome.)

To summarize the last 9 months of MCC bitching and call it your “season preview”.

Sandoval isn’t a below average 3B. He is easily above average

Neukom — self-admitted know-nothing. established and proven by contract extensions to the twin towers of idocy Sabean and Bochy

Sabean— The progenitor of the “Washed Up Veterans first, last and always” war strategy. If his “openmindedness” and “ability to adapt to change” were water he could not put out a match in a monsoon. If this guy were in charge of WWII he would have drafted nothing but Civil War vets

Bochy—Career W/L Record .490 postseason 8-16. Post Season. He needs to go back to San Diego and valet park in the Gas lamp District, or ride a skateboard in Pacific Beach. Has all the leadership qualities of George Custer

Zito-Overpaid birkenstock brat who thinks hanging a curveball in ST to Fielder in the back is “squaring up accounts”. Starred in James Bond movie Goldfinger as “Pussy Galore” Just in case, his contract for 126 million wasn’t enough:

Cotts Contracts:

          o Cy Young award: $0.5M for winning once, $0.75M for 2nd time, $1M each for 3 or more ($0.2M for placing 2nd in vote, $0.15M for 3rd, $0.1M for 4th, $50,000 for 5th)
          o MVP: $0.25M for winning, $0.15M for 2nd place in vote, $0.1M for 3rd, $75,000 for 4th, $50,000 for 5th
          o $0.2M for WS MVP
          o $0.1M each for Gold Glove, All Star selection, LCS MVP

    * perks: suite on road trips

Aaron Rowand. 33 going on 14. Only a douchebag from Fullerton State wears his hat backwards in baggy shorts while driving James Bond’s car. And only a guy who uses cyclone fences for face strainers thinks owning a 10,000 square foot house on a 5000 square foot lot in Las Vegas is “Class” because there’s a mall-cop with gate. His agent spread-eagled Sabean for 60 million when he refused to tip for Rownads pizza. Thats the only logical explanation.

Renteria. This guy is eligible for Medicare. WTF. Nuff said

Freddy Sanchez. If this guy had a bolt in his neck, he would still be in worse shape than Frankenstein’s bride. (sorry Vic)

Aubrey Huff. Only an asshat with an ops under .600 in Detroit who shows up at radio interviews drunk and makes home made videos with porn skanks would get signed to hit cleanup on a Sabean team.

Benige Molina. A guy with an obp under 300 and man-tits who is slower than a pregnant boar gets paid millions and offered incentives based on games played. How retarded is this.

Eugenio Velez. Hit ball, puts his right foot in, puts his right foot out, he does the hokey pokey and he shakes it all around, then he takes off for first. Only guy with 4.3. speed that can convert to 5.9 results. Useless. He should try out for the Jamaican bobsled team next year. Better yet, the luge.

Here are the cumulative OPS of the free-agents that Sabean signed this offseason and last to start this year. This following 3 splendid years of turning NL pitchers into HOF material. This is what they did after being dumped on other teams who “thought” these jackasses would get them into the playoffs.

Sanchez OPS .619
DeRosa OPS .696
Huff OPS .567
Rent OPS .635
Molina OPS .727

Nothing like fielding one half of a team. The problem with watching a crap team like this, even if the great pitching holds up is that if a ballgame goes three hours, over 2 hours of it is going to be watching Giants opponents at the plate, an act that everybody here is quite familiar, and frankly I think is going to show up in the pitching this year. Too few minutes in the dugout between innings year after year takes its toll on the starting pitching. Maybe.

It is almost here!

I think you meant to say we had the worst offense, not defense.