In Zaidi we trust - The Giants

His changeup-sinker two pair is so ridiculously effective. Love to see a starter with a unique primary pitch repertoire.

hell yeah MLB.TV showing Duvals walk out

*Doval’s

🐐 sighting

🎥 @NBCSGiants
pic.twitter.com/3CTgx927N4

— KNBR (@KNBR) April 24, 2024

Webb was in a groove tonight, funny because I was worried about him after the first two starts this year, lol

Webb is steady af, I was thinking about him specifically because of how efficient his starts are. Andrew Bailey is a miracle worker.

Uhhhh snell placed on 15 day IR

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/giants-blake-snell-injured-list-adductor-strain.html

Saw that. Probably not surprising given he started late and didn’t ramp up enough.

Read something last week that none of the seven biggest MLB contracts belong to Boras' clients whereas 10 years ago, he owned 9 of the top 10.

Last night's game sounds like a classic but I missed as I was at Slowdive.

PATRICK BAILEY CALLED GAME ‼ pic.twitter.com/vB8jOVXkEk

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) April 27, 2024

Patrick Bailey made history with the walk-off blast, becoming the first catcher in MLB history to turn a double play, catch a shutout and hit a walk-off home run in the same game, per OptaSTATS.

This was nice, I like it when people are classy:

"There's some really good people here."

Joey Bart, now on the Pirates, tells @PavlovicNBCS how much he appreciates his time with the Giants pic.twitter.com/faLoEkJcHt

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) April 27, 2024

xp that's some reaching but I guess with baseball there's such a huge sample size of games it's hard not to be surprised when the first of anything happens.

xp it wasn’t him sneering about him being DFAed. Giants fans were gloating for whatever reason. Good for him.

6 - 4 on this home stand with two series wins and one split. One month in and one game under .500, will take it. No help from Snell but still doing okay.

Was watching Lee the other day, his batting approach is rather unique so I looked up his first 5 weeks of MLB stats.

He primarily bats lead off so you'd expect him to walk a lot... yet he doesn't: 7.2% BB/PA.

That said he doesn't strike out a tremendous amount either: 8.6% K/PA

His MLB OBP (.304) is tracking about 3/4ths of his KBO career (.407), which is worrying enough but his power has simply evaporated in MLB (.071 ISO, .317 SLG) compared to his .340/.407/.491/.898 KBO career line.

He's performing barely replacement level which is a tough swallow for an untradeable OF due to make >$20M/yr in the next 5 years.

You could also calm down about a guy adjusting to a league that’s notably more difficult than the one he came from *checks notes* just over a month into his MLB career

The Giants big offseason signings fWAR descending:

Hicks: 0.7
Chapman: 0.3
Lee: 0.2
Snell: 0.1
Soler: 0.0
Tom Murphy (?): -0.3
Ray: n/a

Totalling $354M spent for a cumulative 1.0 WAR.

For comparison, the Giants are paying Patrick Bailey $748k and getting 1.1 WAR from him.

It’s a month into the season

fyi I’m not going to shed a tear about Charles Johnson spending money on players rather than donating it to Christian extremist superpacs or whatever else he does with his fortune

Yeah no, seem to recall a survey of MLB GMs that rated Lee's contract the worst signing of the offseason. 😬

Checked his savant page and it was a sea of blue as expected.

...but I'm here for the optimism!

I don’t mean to be mean but who gives a fuck? It’s one month in.

Suggest you see an opticians if this is “a sea of blue”
https://i.postimg.cc/dtbm4H5X/IMG-0373.png

For comparison, the Giants are paying Patrick Bailey $748k and getting 1.1 WAR from him.

Well yeah, for all the chasing after free agents and losing and then making questionable panic signings the core problem with the Giants is an inability to identify and/or develop young hitters. Hard to buy your way out of mediocrity.