THE 100-YEAR-OLDS OCCUPATION: Giants 2008 goddamn thread

Zito, Lincecum and Cain up against the Rox next. Why do I think the Wild Card race is going to get tighter...

Zito vs Marquis on MLBN tonight

and Jeff Kent in the booth for an inning, how special

he got booed heartily when he was "honoured" before the game

zito's ERA under 4 btw

Watching my fantasy league pitchers on tv -- guaranteed kiss of death. I should never get Extra Innings.

I'm happy for Barry Zito. He seems like a cool guy by baseball standards.

alyssa's engagement and marriage closed a painful chapter in his life. this new found peace has allowed him to get back to his old cy young self.

Buster Posey got the call-up today.

Be interesting to see how a rook calls a game for a few Cy Young winners but fuck the Giants offense sucks and he has mashed the ball at all levels.

Totally blown away by Sanchez AGAIN btw... him and Zito have carried these guys for the past 6 weeks.

Sanchez since the All-Star break***:

ERA 3.35
WHIP 1.17
BAA .190

***Does NOT include his (near-)Perfect Game.

Penny looked okay today, not a bad pick up. Too bad the Giants needed a bat more than a 5th starter but whatevs.

Only 2 K's tho. Dudes K/9 has sank like a stone ever since 2007.

Yeah against the best team in the NL and World Series champs, dawg. This ain't no Vicente Padilla going 5 innings against the D-bags.

Has there ever been a bigger divide between a single team's pitching/defense vs. hitting?

How many teams can give up 3 runs in as many games and lose 2 of 3?

Not to be an annoying homer but its all I know:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl/player_search.cgi?search=2003+dodgers

Its more bullpen than starter related but its kinda similar. Less wins I guess.

16 LF Rickey Henderson .208 .321 .306

Lincecum look like skinny goth kid

Dan Runzler's 2009:

Team        Level `G     W-L	ERA	IP	H	BB	K	SV	WHIP
AUG (sf)	A	19	1-1	0.68	26.1	8	13	45	11	0.80
SAN (sf)	A+	19	1-0	0.84	21.1	8	4	26	5	0.56
CON (sf)	AA	7	3-0	0.96	9.1	5	7	11	1	1.29
FRE (sf)	AAA	2	0-0	0.00	2.0	2	0	1	0	1.00
SFG (NL)	MLB	1	0-0	0.00	0.1	0	0	1	0	0.00

3 pitch K tonight, but all 5 levels in one year is pretty good right? How common is that in this day and age?

Zito finally had a bad-ish start (only 4ip, 5bb), but somehow the Giants find a way to win another 3-2 game thanks to the bullpen.

Jesus Christ, Penny is a massive douchebag.

2009 butthurt player of the year

i saw the clip and could not for the life of me figure out what his problem was. is he channeling Clemens or something?

Giants allegedly calling up Bumgardner. Whether its to play or to shag foul balls in the bullpen like Posey remains to be seen.

He may be starting tonight.

Lincecum's back is strained from carrying the team, amirite lol

PECOTA=adjusted playoff odds

COL 84%

SF 13%

Should probably try to win games against the Padres imo

NL Pitcher VORP

Lincecum 64.7
Wainwright 64.3
Haren 62.6
Carpenter 62.0

Yikes:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/giants/detail?entry_id=48000

One of his teammates knows how to beat a murder rap in the Dominican. He should be ok.

If had an OBP of >.320 he might have been the best offensive player in the Giants organization including MLB.

always giggle a bit when i see a thread with "100 YEAR OLDS" in the title is bumped by morbs

I was basking in Bengie Molina's AMAZING .289 OBP at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. Hollee shit.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/giants/2010-01-14-giants-organizational-report_N.htm

I cringed every time an announcer would talk about Molina taking Pablo Sandoval under his wing during last season..

And I hate the Giants...

PECOTA '10:

Benjie Molina: .280/.317/.434, Defense: 96-C
Buster Posey: .274/.349/.422, Defense: 72-C

meaning not too different of a VORP projection giving either the majority of the PAs.

but here's the crazy thing:

breakout/improve/collapse
BM: 10/37/29
BP: 17/45/24

they're really closely matched, just on opposing ends of their careers.

ok, i'm starting to get excited about this year!

i'm trying to stay positive... but it seems like their biggest gain in the off-season was sandoval's prescription goggles.

how fat is the panda? i heard he's bigger than LY: t/f?

i for one am happy to find out what would've happened if CC never became a pitcher

Panda looked pretty portly on mlb tv last night doing fielding drills.

Fat Ichiro was a much better name than this pixar mickey mouse shit

well dude has quite a bit more power than ichiro, long live drives vs. slappy chops/running out infield grounders. not really the same animal imo.

.001 difference in OBP

Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols had a .001 difference in OBP last year but they're pretty different.

Giants resuming their tradition of butt-hurtedness already

Barry Zito worked 1 2/3 innings and allowed a run Thursday in the Giants' 5-3 win over the Brewers.

The story from the game will be that Zito plunked Prince Fielder in apparently retaliation for Fielder's "bowling pin" home run celebration against the Giants last year. Fielder was fine, and he ended up going 1-for-2 in the game. Still, it was a message sent.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/03/500x_tim-lincecum-giants-snuggie.jpg

i imagine his life being like brad pitts in true romance only w piles and piles of money.

so Bumgardner looks hurt?