Real Men of Genius -- Here's to you, Mr. Multiple-Center-Fielder-Signing-General-Manaaaaager!

Also, I think that this signing makes it very obvious that Winn, Roberts, or Lewis are likely candidates to be packaged away in another deal.  I'd be VERY surprised (even taking into account Sabean's track record) that we're going to start the season with this many outfielders.

The other pros to this trade....

We didn't have to trade Lincecum or Cain to get him.

It probably also means that Matsui is off the table.  I thought that was a bad idea to take him on.

Winn
Rowand
Schierholtz

Back up: Davis

Trade Roberts for corn flakes and milk to be named later.

Id be okay with trading Winn as well and keeping a Roberts/Davis platoon.

Just please, do something about this. My blood pressure cant take it and i'm only 23 dammit.

Like Rowand, Sabean has chased after an object with full, unbridled force. The object could, possibly, have been attained, if the correct path was taken to it. However, the smart route was not taken, with Sabean and Rowand bloody and broken, face first into a wall.

In Rowand's case, it was a ball. In Sabean's case, it's a World Series Ring.

If we end up with a Roberts-Rowand-Winn outfield, I'll be pissed.

The sum conclusion (based mostly off BABIP) was that Rowand was going to come back down to earth, and that the power wasn't going to last. Well, the power lasted, although his numbers did come down to something more resembling his very solid 2004 season.

So, which Rowand are we getting? The .270/.320/.420 from his worse years, or the .310/.370/.515 from last year? If the former, then yeah, this stinks. If the latter, I don't hate this move. Yeah, I hate the money, and the years, but that production from CF, even regressed to a .290/.340/.470 isn't horrible.

That's the best I can come up with. If Rowand doesn't suck, this move isn't horrible. Good lord, but that is a pathetic excuse for an argument.

Snap judgement: the only reason I don't hate this move is that it means Lincecum stays. Addition by non-subtraction?

If we can swing trades for both Roberts and Winn - or at least one of them, plus getting something useful for Lewis and/or Davis - then this will make some sense. In the meantime, though, it looks an awful lot like the thinking that led to last year's four-first-basemen lineup.

lol.

"Rowand is a prime candidate to drop off after posting big numbers in his walk year with the Phillies. Thanks in part to the offensive-friendly environment of Citizens Bank Park, where he batted .319 with a .937 OPS, the 30-year-old finished with career highs in homers (27), RBIs (89) and runs (105) last season. Now, he'll be playing half his games at AT&T Park, a much tougher venue for hitters. Rowand will probably top off at around 20 jacks, with subsequent drops in RBIs and runs in 2008. Leaving a potent Phillies lineup for one that's still under post-Barry Bonds reconstruction doesn't help matters, either. Throw in his decreased activity on the basepaths, and Rowand is looking like an average mixed-league outfielder at this point."

1. Rowand doesn't bat like Rowand 2005 and 2006, but instead like Rowand 2007.
   
2. The giants try to move Winn.

Sabean, try and fill a position the Giants need.  A 1b. A 3b.  AA and AAA level prospects.

Stupid Rowand.  Stupid Sabean. Stupid stupid stupid.

Anger makes me want to start a pool for AR's first concussion, first DL stint for broken bone, and when he'll pull a Matheny all due to his reckless play.

i need to calm down. jeesh. for one, I didn't have cable or sportcenter this past season, so rowand is still a teens hr power guy and "web gem" concussion waiting to happen.  Maybe, he has matured into a 30 HR slugging Gold Glove CFer.  (still need to trade away Winn and Roberts now though.)

My name is Hugh. I played center field in the Montclair Junior Baseball League in the fabled summer of 1977. Coincidentally enough - I played for the Giants! I would welcome the opportunity to bolster your outfield, which is looking a little thin. I would only require three years at 6 million per. Such a deal! My agent, XieFrank Boras, awaits your call.

Possible Rolland? No, Cards have too many outfielders..
Inge? No way... don't see it happening..
Two for one Matsui deal, maybe?
Three for one deal with the Astro's and Carlos Lee? (yea, a guy in Houston has told me this has been discussed locally but I can't find anything on it)

Anything goes, thats for sure.... really to me the only way this doesn't make sense is if this is the only move we make...

I smell a blockbuster coming..... wait.... no maybe thats the Gallo wine plant down the street.

You don't stock 16,000 outfielders with out having some kind of plan...

Look for something to happen after the first of the year...

But I've been so frustrated by the direction of the team (or should I say directionlessness of the team?).  I have been feeling more and more like the season tixholders were being played for suckers. This signing cinches that I am not renewing today... and I'm leaning away from renewing by the January deadline, too.  Crap weasels.

I'm thinking Rowland plays Deep CF (he loves running into walls), Rajai or F-Lew Mid-CF and Roberts Shallow-CF (only because of the ball dudes have a better arm than him).

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3152808&name=law_keith

Rowand is a dead-fastball hitter with a complicated, high-effort swing that produces a lot of sound and fury, but a lot of swings and misses as well. His power is part real and part the effect of the hitters' parks where he's spent his entire career (56 homers at home versus 37 on the road). He's not enough of a contact hitter to predict high averages, and his batting average has fluctuated accordingly throughout his career. He is not patient, going after the first fastball he sees (or thinks he sees), never drawing more than 44 unintentional walks in a season. He's now moving to a bigger ballpark that's about as unfriendly to home runs as Philadelphia's park is friendly to them, and he's not going to make up for the loss of that power with good OBPs.

The Giants just gave a very good fourth outfielder who's stretched as an everyday player in most years five years and $60 million. It's reminiscent of the Angels' signing of Gary Matthews Jr. last winter -- a deal they regretted enough to replace him this winter. But the Giants' in-house alternatives were bad enough that the Rowand deal does make them a win or two better per year in the short term. They're not going to get their money's worth, nor was it worth giving up a second-round pick to sign him, and since the Giants are not likely to contend for at least the first three years of Rowand's deal, it's hard to see why they'd move to make such a large and lengthy commitment.

He also made the following comment in the comments section in response to a poster's whining about the farm system:

kevcon - they did draft very well in 2007, best of any club in my opinion. Lots of high-ceiling guys who won't all pan out, but enough of them should to help form the core of the next good Giants team, five or six years down the line.