Tag: SF Giants blogs
The First Giants: The Cure for a Losing Streak is Always the Phillies
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had suffered blowout losses in five straight games to close…
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Predicting the 2017 Giants: The “Who Knew?” Defense
When a baseball season goes as badly for a team as the 2017 MLB season has gone for the San…
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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…
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The First Giants: The Gothams Get Stomped in New England
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had just finished up a home stand that featured a…
Read more »Aiming at October: MLB Second Half Bullet Points
We’ll start with some distressing news about the San Francisco Giants (surprise). After that, (and brace yourselves for this) we’ll…
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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The First Giants: The Gothams battle the Buffalo Bisons
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they were finally playing good baseball, but found themselves still mired…
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Winter is Coming: The Giants Face Critical Decisions at the Trade Deadline
For the San Francisco Giants the 2017 off-season starts right now. The Giants can’t sit back and wait until the…
Read more »SF Giants Confused About 2017 Freefall, “Quality” Starts
In Baseball You Are What You Pretend Not to Be Are the 2017 San Francisco Giants as bad as their…
Read more »The First Giants: The NY Gothams Return Home from a Hard Road
Last week, we saw the struggling New York Gothams conclude the first road trip in the 135-year history of the…
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The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Here are The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog…
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The First Giants: The Gothams Go On the Road in Week Two of the 1883 Season
I’ve been reading Edward Achorn’s 2013 book about the 1883 baseball season, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers,…
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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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The First Giants: How the 1883 Gothams Acquired Four Future Hall of Famers
On May 1, 1883, 15,000 New Yorkers filled the stands at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan to witness baseball…
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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 Giants: The 1883 New York Gothams
In honor of the 135th season of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise, I will be profiling 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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STOP THE PRESSES AGAIN!! BREAKING NEWS FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!!
Cutting Edge Baseball News From Around the Country and Around the World! This Is News You Can’t Legally Find Anywhere…
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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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Welcome to the Hall of Twenty Game Losers
Thankfully it’s now almost embarrassing to reference “wins” and “losses” when discussing the performance of a Major League starting pitcher….
Read more »STOP THE PRESSES!! Breaking News From Major League Baseball!
Cutting Edge Baseball News From Around the Country and Around the World! This Is News You Can’t Legally Find Anywhere…
Read more »The Mobius Strip Theory
Updated:The Major League Baseball Line-up Redesigned: The Mobius Strip Theory In 2010 I devised and introduced the Mobius Strip Theory…
Read more »About the Giants Cove
Updated:Welcome to the San Francisco Giants 2020 season. And to The Giants Cove. The Giants Cove reports on the San…
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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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“Jays From the Couch” Features Brilliant 2016 Giants Wrap-Up
Contrary to what you may have heard, “Jays From the Couch” is not a discarded piece of Canadian furniture covered…
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