The Next 38 Games

18-20
The cratering bullpen
4

Record: 18-20
Bigger Problem: Easily the bullpen. With the schedule the way it is, the pen will be worked into the ground. This increases the need for bullpen help, and a reliable 5th starter.
Buster Posey Starts at C: 6 (ugh)

Now that will be an impressive feat.

21-17
Bullpen
5

23-15
Offense, but only because we’ll pick up a solid reliever at the deadline. I hope.
4 (optimistic, but not that optimistic.)

How many of the next 38 games will Buster Posey start at catcher?

Trick question. Answer is 20. All ofthem in Fresno.

Seems like we’re always playing in Milwaukee

because no one else is in that pool

There are going to be THREE days off in a row in case you forgot.

I expect Buster to catch in (though not necessarily start) 12 games.

Fhew. No predictions, but I’d be pretty happy if they got through that stretch with a .500 record.

off days suck anyway.

22-16
All- or nothing offense: I’ll go further and say the Giants will lose 5 games where the starter goes 7IP with 1R or less allowed.
Buster will catch 2 games

Also, I’ll add another one and say Bowker will hit 11 HR in that span in Fresno.

But take it from a longtime Red Sox fan, the Red Sox don’t usually do too well on the West Coast. Past 5 years in Oakland from 2005 on: 1-2, 2-4, 1-3, 3-4, 1-3. Past 5 season in Seattle: 1-2, 1-5, 2-4, 4-2, 1-2. Past 5 seasons in Anaheim: 2-2, 2-1, 1-2, 0-3, 2-4.

23-15
Bully
20…optimistically and without any rational basis predicting something happens in Borkland to create my predicted scenario.

Surprisingly the Giants are 40 percentage points and 3 games below their pythagorean winz expectation. This is probably due to bad luck bork.

17-21
Brian Sabean trying to give Bochy a hot hand that he stoked with prospect is my biggest concern.
4 – We know that Eli will get at least 8 starts at catcher, so Bengie will start the 8 games that follow those starts, then he WILL catch Lincecum ~8 again then we get into Cain who will go with Bengie at least 6 of the 8 games. That leaves Posey to catch 8 games to catch from Zito/ 5th starter, but Zito is hard to catch and the young 5th starter will need a vet to guide him in his games so bengie will get 4 of those 8 games too just b/c.

somebody else proposed, and I agree, need a 6th starter for the long stretch. MadBum is on the 40; it could also be Pucetas. Could also put the guy in bullpen some of the time, but go to break up the long run of consecutive games. Whom to replace? On a team carrying 3.5 catchers, a catcher. Or Rowand could need a DL stretch, or Affeldt.
I got a bad feeling, could be 14-24, bullpen disaster, and 1 [team loses that game, so SSS Posey never starts again]

Hmm…18-20 I guess. It’ll be a tough stretch, but the Giants can handle it. The Strasburg start should be interesting. Do we know who is scheduled to face him?
Bullpen will do okay. Probably blow a couple games, but pitch fairly well overall.
0 (you know the Giants actually think he’s a first baseman).

38-0

okay i looked at the schedule and they go on this like 4 series road trip out east. dang this is gonna b tough after boston

16-22

cratering bullpen

3, unless Molina gets injured for any part of those 38 games

Record, 17 – 14. The bullpen will be a bigger problem than the offense, though each problem would be mightily eased by a manager who had some least idea of how to evaluate player talent and how to best use what he has. How many games will Posey start at catcher? Maybe 1 or 2, maybe none; never, ever forget that Bochy is apparently 117% committed to giving Molina the full 115 starts at catcher that he needs to receive all of his available incentive bonuses, so that (considering Whiteside’s role) only 15 starts at catcher all season long are available for Posey (or Whiteside for other than JSanchez)—and he has already burned one of those 15 and it’s not even the ASB yet.

“the boys in French Vanilla”

I hadn’t really noticed until I saw some highlights from the 2000 season recently, but the Giants don’t wear French Vanilla anymore — their home unis are pretty much just plain white now. I’m not sure when exactly they made the switch — maybe after Kent left, just to piss him off?

PORN ’STACHE WUZ RITE!

Giants currently 2-8 since this thread began.