Tag: 2017 NL West
How Flawed Free Agents, Poor Trades, and Cheap Player Signings Helped Derail the San Francisco Giants
Precious Resources: Money vs IP and ABs Bad multi-year Major League Baseball player contracts are easy to spot several years…
Read more »What the SF Giants Will Look Like on Opening Day 2018
The San Francisco Giants will close their disappointing 2017 season in six weeks with a complex, and contradictory, set of…
Read more »If Things look Bad Now– A Look at the Future of the San Francisco Giants Organization
As the Giants ownership and team management look beyond their historically dismal 2017 season, what is the expectation for 2018…
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Why the Giants Won’t be Sellers or Traders at the July Deadline
First, There’s Some Disturbing News The San Francisco Giants’ critically ill 2017 season just received something akin to emergency resuscitation….
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SF Giants 2017 Season Premier: a Game of Throwns
We know how much the San Francisco Giants organization disdains advanced analytics and anything to do with them fancy computer…
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The First two Weeks of the 2017 MLB Season: Rigorous Notes, Random Finger Pointing, and Damning Pronouncements
Let’s See Where We’re At The start of the 2017 season has been challenging for several high-profile teams, including the…
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The Sports Daily MLB Power Rankings
That the massive sports media empire known as The Sports Daily hosts an array of outstanding Major League Baseball blogs…
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Playing Pepper 2017: This Time It’s Personal
If you know Daniel Shoptaw (and I don’t) then you know he has an extreme case of St. Louis Cardinals…
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The Matt Cain Game
There’s little question that the San Francisco Giants are by far the dullest franchise in Major League Baseball. And that’s…
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The Giants Try Something New in 2017: Building a Productive Bench
As the San Francisco Giants begin Spring Training their front office management is tinkering with a radically new approach to…
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SF Giants 2017 Schedule: It’s Going to be a Bumpy Ride
In 2016 the San Francisco Giants received a generous gift from Major League Baseball: a relatively lopsided regular season schedule….
Read more »The Giants vs. the Dodgers: Closers/Second Base/Third Base
The San Francisco Giants have made their one off-season move with the signing of free agent closer Mark Melancon. Several…
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“Here Are the [insert number here] Things the Giants Need to Do for 2017”
Winter is coming and while no fire-upchucking dragons have been sighted in the sky, the mythical MLB hot stove is…
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