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Winning a Series with Five Runs or Less: How Rare Is It?
The Giants have two series wins this season in which they’ve scored five runs or less for the entire series. Hey, that’s kind of quirky, I thought. Maybe it would be worth it to go through the schedules from previous years and see when the last time that happened was. It started as an...
What To Do with Emmanuel Burriss
This post had to come eventually. And I didn’t want to do it. I was pessimistic, sure. At least, I thought I was. It turns out that I was a little too optimistic. But I wanted to be wrong. I really did. Emmanuel Burriss is killing me. Wait, that’s not right. How the Giants have handled...
Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval
In the aftermath of the 2008 draft, I argued that the presence of Pablo Sandoval, who had a ridiculously hot two months in A-ball, shouldn’t have affected how the Giants approached the draft. It would have been silly for them to say, "Well, we can’t take Posey because we have this...
The Future and the San Francisco Giants
Does anyone else remember that free agency used to be much more exciting, or is it just me? Ten years ago, it seemed like there were always two or three worthy free agents at every position, and if a free-spending team wanted to go nuts, they could. Things done changed. Now only a handful of...
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