For the love of everything that is good just let him get the surgery.

I also love the idea that a tendon-flappin’ Mark DeRosa is going to be a panacea for a struggling offense.

If the Giants can get DeRosa back next week and nobody else goes down, Bochy finally will be able to pen what was supposed to be the regular lineup. Then we can get a sense whether the Giants really can score some runs or if this is just going to be 2009 redux, 2008 redux, etc…

This is just stupid.

Give him the surgery!

It’ll be like the same disaster as Renteria was last season.
How do they not learn from their mistakes?

How do they even make a mistake like that in the first place?

It’s going to be so awesome when he puts up an OPS of .600 while Andres Torres sits.

Bochy said he understands that Rowand has been very streaky, which might be OK down in the order but not at leadoff, where you need a little more consistency. Bochy has spoken to Rowand about moving down in the order, behind the run producers, if he thinks it will help the offense. It’s a major change that Bochy does not want to make lightly, though from what I’ve heard he was close to doing it earlier in the week before Rowand had a three-hit game.

omg just give him the surgery this is not going to turn out well

barryforever

Kung Fu Panza is on a pace for 12 HRs, 55 RBI, and off-season stomach stapling!

Even a healthy DeRosa wasn’t going to improve the offense. Just let the man have surgery already.

Derosa Not Ready by Tuesday Ever — Sometime Next Week Never, at This Rate. I Mean, Good God, Just Let Him Get the Damn Thing Corrected Already. If There Is Any Hope of Him Ever Contributing Under His Current Contract, It’s by Letting Him Get the Surgery Now. It’s Almost Mind-Bogglingly Stupid for the Entire Organization to Not Be Able to Realize This. The Very Logic They Are Working on Seems to Be Threatening to Create a Black Hole in Reality Just by Existing. I Mean, It’s Right on the Edge of Creating a Black Hole and Not Creating a Black Hole. I’m Pretty Sure We’re Still Okay, But if Reality Starts to Seem Like It’s Getting Really Fucked, You Should Bank on the Black Hole Theory. Because, Really, That’s the Only Thing That Would Make Sense. Not That It Would Matter. Because We’d All Be Dead, Anyway. But at Least Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy Would Be Responsible for Killing Us All. Because I’ve Always Said That if I Were to Ever Be Murdered in a Cosmically Fucked Sort of Way, I’d Want It to Be Brian Sabean’s and Bruce Bochy’s Faults. I Mean, God Damn.

A gamer would toughen this shit out. Isn’t there a gamer clause in his contract? Cut this bum loose.

is also saying we’re gonna try to play Renteria, Sanchez, and Uribe in the infield, move Huff to the outfield, and bench Nate and Bowker. Oh, sweet.

But I wish Sabean had never signed him

Instead of making a fanpost on mostly redundant topics, I’ll condense my Rage, Anger, and Rants in this post. Observation of the team will be in quotes, analysis of the observation will be outside of it.

1. In the absence of consistent lineup with at least some power and above average on base%, teams are at the mercy of BABIP breaking the right way. The Giants couldn’t score this past week not because they aren’t clutch hitters, but because performance in the clutch is defined by how good the players are to begin with. If a player has a .350 OBP normally, he probably would be on base about, oh, I dunno, .350 in “clutch situations”. Give or take a few percent based on where the defense is playing. Failing in clutch situation is not because players couldn’t channel their inner David Eckstein at the right moment, it is because a .300 on base hitter fails to get on base 70% of the time, and a team full of hitters failing 70% of the time has a higher tendency to have multiple guys fail consecutively than a team full of hitters failing 60% of the time. That’s just basic math.

2. Regression towards the mean happens. The pitching stats from the first 3 weeks were not sustainable over the season. On the other hand, the offense would probably be under less scrutiny if the team was losing 7-1, 5-0, 9-0 instead of 1-0 multiple times. The good fortune and good pitching of this team is helping to keep the focus on the abnormally poor string of BABIP on our hitters. Karma is a bitch isn’t it?

3. This team, as constructed, is a .500 team based on most projections. It is playing to the projection in a feast or famine streaky fashion. Not surprising given point #1. There are 3 things you can do do avoid BABIP streaks. You can strike out, walk, or hit the ball out of the park. Unfortunately, our hitters only do one out of those 3 things with regularity. I admit both the power and the K/BB ratio have been better than I expected, but that it still isn’t good enough. When you leave your fate to balls dropping in the field, shit like last week happens.

4. Last season the Giants, based on stats, was supposed to be a ~81 win team. They won 88. They overachieved. They spent money this offseason moving laterally on offense and stood still on pitching. They should be a ~81 win team again. The lofty expectation of improving on an 88 win season was never logical to begin with. It doesn’t just happen because “there’s magic inside!”

There is no 1 or 2 moves that will fix this situation. It is a fundamental problem with the way the team is constructed. Short of dropping both Mark Texiera and Hanley Ramirez into 1B and SS, there isn’t a signing or a trade out there that will transform this lineup magically.

The problem from the onset is the mindset of the front office. Instead of getting younger, more athletic, and better on base, each offseason is another exercise of signing patchwork solutions with over the hill veteran in hoping “this is the year it all comes together.” It is giving money to players based on their ceiling, not average value. “Mark Derosa, in his peak, could be worth 6Million / year so I’ll sign him to 12M /2 yrs. Freddy Sanchez, if everything works out exactly the way it should and he hits his ceiling, is worth 6M / year so I’ll sign him to 12M/2 yrs”.

Matt Cain has outperformed his xFIP for 3 straight years now. Imagine if his trend reverses.

The Giants had the single least productive right field in baseball last year based on wOBA with Randy Winn and friends. At the same time, the AAA team had the single most productive right fielder in all of minor league last year in John Bowker. It is absolutely inexcusable that, 1 year and 2 months later, we look at John Bowker and say “boy, there could be something there, but there just isn’t enough at bats to figure out if he is the answer.”

I have a lot more to say about another subject, but instead I’ll just use these words : “Fred Lewis.”

Will Mark Derosa help when he comes back? Maybe. maybe not. One thing I know for sure, he will take away at bats from John Bowker. Instead of finding out whether Bowker can be a .800 OPS player at left field, we will go to the end of this season still wondering “humm, I wonder if Bowker could play for us next year. It would have been nice to see 500 at bats consistently from him.”

Edgar Renteria. I forgot how the rest of the joke goes but that was the punchline.

San Francisco Giants : Spending 90M to (maybe) to play .500 baseball. Holy shit I wrote an essay. Probably should have fanposted this afterall.