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Underappreciated Giants: Volume Five
Spring training is here! Spring training is here! Oh, rapturous day! Spring tra… Wait, this doesn’t feel different from yesterday. There aren’t any games. The rumors are getting progressively lamer. Our only salvation is the posting of spring photos at Giants Jottings and Extra...
Underappreciated Giants: Volume Four
Remember, the Clio-winning Underappreciated Giants series takes a look back at players. We’re not really interested in what the players did after their careers were over. If, for example, a player became an on-air personality that makes you want to take a miter saw to your inner ear, that...
Underappreciated Giants: Volume Three
One of my first memories: I was six, and my sister and a friend were babysitting me. I had huge, unorganized boxes of baseball cards, and my sister’s friend asked me if I had a Tom O’Malley card. I knew that I did, but I didn’t know where it was. That started a two-hour search...
Underappreciated Giants: Volume Two
After the strike-shortened season of 2002 – in which the Giants had a really good shot at postseason success if the season continued, dang it – Brian Sabean pounced on the free agent market like a big ol’ ocelot. Jeff Kent was unlikely to return, and Bill Mueller was a mediocre...
Underappreciated Giants: Volume One
Up through his age-28 season, Stan Javier looked like a dud of a prospect. Other than a fluke season in 1990 with the Dodgers, Javier didn’t hit for a high average, didn’t hit for power, and he didn’t take enough walks to make up for the other deficiencies. After Javier left the...
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