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BP/Sheehan Crushes the G-Men

Good Lord.  I won't post the whole thing for copyright reasons, but here are the memorable excerpts:

The roster looks like someone’s keeper list from the second Clinton Administration...That’s better than the situation at shortstop, where in the absence of Omar Vizquel and his stories of a time before electricity, the Giants are going with something called Brian Bocock, who hit .220/.293/.328 in the Cal League at the age of 22 last season. Nothing against Bocock—it’s not his fault his superiors can’t run an organization—but what does it say that the second-best available option at shortstop in the system is a 23-year-old who was one of the worst players in High-A?

At the same time the Giants are assembling a roster of Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and 23 Fresno Grizzlies, they’re embarrassing themselves by erasing all mentions of Barry Bonds from AT&T Park. Bonds is responsible for that park, in the same way that Ken Griffey helped create Safeco Field and Tony Gwynn built Petco Park. It’s one thing to squeeze every last dollar out of the man’s career, another to discard your best player because of public-relations concerns, and another thing entirely to erase him from existence....The spin that a Bonds-free clubhouse will somehow make up for a Bonds-free baseball field has no credibility whatsoever. This is the worst team in baseball, and rapidly challenging for the label of worst organization.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7284

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