Tag: 2018 SF Giants
SF Giants: Two Iconic Stars, Two Critical Questions to be Answered
/The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term challenges…
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SF Giants Turn an Era-Ending Double Play
/Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General…
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New SF Giants Executive Team Will Inherit an Organization in Disarray
/Once the San Francisco Giants go through the process of selecting a new President of Baseball Ops and a new…
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Giants Hall of Fame Slugger Willie McCovey Dies at 80
/Willie McCovey 01/10/38 – 10/31/18 Willie McCovey debuted with the San Francisco Giants on July 30, 1959 at the age…
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Let’s Take a Peek at the Seamy Underside of the National League
/As we plunge headfirst into the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers, I ask…
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The Biggest Challenge for the SF Giants is Changing their Culture
/When San Francisco Giants Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer announced on September 24th that the team’s General Manager Bobby Evans…
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Misleading and Irrelevant MLB Stats Still Roam the Earth
/You would think the sports section of a metropolitan newspaper would use modern analytical statistics to support their Major League…
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It’s Time for a Revolution in Baseball Broadcasting
/2018 has been another tremendous Major League Baseball season, featuring great division races, elite-league teams, young superstar players and dramatic…
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The Myths About MLB Player Injuries Are Alive and Well in 2018
/Once again this season we’ve heard the same tired cliched comments about MLB player injuries: > “Wow is it me…
Read more »Who’s Leading the War Against Baseball? Amazingly, it’s Former MLB Players
/We live in a time when ideology is more important than our basic institutions. When traditions and foundational beliefs are…
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Two National League Teams with Opposite Opportunities to Reboot
/It’s odd to think of the 2018 New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers as being in similar situations as…
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The 2018 MLB Trade Deadline: What the SF Giants Will Do — What they Should Do
/After the first 69 games of the 2018 season, the San Francisco Giants are 34-35, in third place in the…
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SF Giants’ Farm System: A Cluster of Hype and Myths
/What do you do when your MLB team’s organizational ratings have been in the bottom 20% of all thirty teams…
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Ready for Another Shake-up Year in the NL West? Not So Fast
/2017 was a paradigm shift season for the National League West. With both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies under…
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For the San Francisco Giants, the Old School is Always In Session
/Let’s get one thing out of the way before those of you enjoying an adult beverage do a spit-take and…
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STOP THE PRESSES!! WE HAVE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREAKING NEWS!!
/Cutting Edge Baseball Headlines From Around the Nation and Around the World! This Is the Real Made Up News that…
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One Brain-Dead MLB Debate Needs to Go Away in 2018
/As we careen into the first several weeks of the 2018 MLB season, it’s a good time to address the…
Read more »The LA Dodgers and the Zen of Doing Nothing While Making Everything Happen
We recently reviewed a number of misleading offseason narratives being spun about each team in the National League West. Incorrect…
Read more »Playing Pepper 2018: When You Come to the Anniversary in the Road, Take It
This is the tenth year in a row that Daniel Shoptaw has coerced dozens of baseball bloggers to answer a…
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Deconstructing the SF Giants' 2018 Schedule: It’s All About the First Half
Traditionally Major League Baseball divides every season into the “first half” and “second half”, with the All-Star break being the…
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The 2018 NL West Again Poised to Grab Three Postseason Spots
As Spring Training begins in earnest, it’s time to examine and correct several misleading narratives being spun about every team…
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Giants Front Office Appears to be in Disarray as the 2018 Season Opens
/As the San Francisco Giants begin Spring Training 2018 there are undeniable signs the team’s front office and executive management…
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Darvish to the Chicago Cubs Means it’s Time for Milwaukee and St. Louis to Step Up
This offseason, Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein and General Manager Jed Hoyer have been laser-focused on improving…
Read more »The NL Wild Card Race Should be a Wild Ride in 2018
Last season saw a rumbling tectonic shift in the battle for the National League’s two Wild Card playoff slots. The…
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The ABC’s of the MLB CBA: When is a Luxury Tax Not a Salary Cap
In late November of 2016, representatives of Major League Baseball were engaged in tense and critically important labor negotiations with…
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SF Giants’ Plan for 2018: Slap a Team Together to Keep the Money Rolling In
The one thing you have to say about the state of the San Francisco Giants is that the team’s front…
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How the San Diego Padres Just Got Smarter
This is a time when really smart and progressive Major League Baseball organizations are engaged in an ongoing, competitive three-dimensional…
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Of the Myths Spun and Believed About Major League Baseball Injuries
For some reason there are still baseball fans, bloggers, sports writers and Major League franchises who completely fail to understand…
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Giants Trade for Longoria In Their Continuing Effort to Appear Relevant
San Francisco Giants executives are obviously dedicated to fulfilling what they perceive is their #1 responsibility: to try to appear…
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