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Wilson's Beard is too much. Liking the photo's though!
Official 2011 San Francisco Giants Season Thread (86-76) 2nd Place in NL West
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[h1]Bochy's pitching rotation moves Sanchez to No. 2[/h1]
Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2011
(02-24) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --
Manager Bruce Bochy announced a rotation Thursday that looks like last year's with one exception: Jonathan Sanchez will be second and Barry Zito fourth, a flip-flop that makes sense because Sanchez had a better year.
The Giants will separate their right-handers, Tim Lincecum at No. 1 and Matt Cain at No. 3, which has two benefits: ensuring the three lefties do not start consecutively and alternating between pitchers who usually go deep in games and those who do not.
Madison Bumgarner will be fifth again so he can be skipped in April, if necessary, to preserve his arm. Even in providing that explanation, Bochy said, "We're not concerned in the least about how much work he had last year. That said, we'll watch all these guys. (Bumgarner) got stronger as the season went on."
Lincecum and Bumgarner will face Arizona in today's Cactus League opener. Bochy said the lineup will be "fairly close" to what he envisions for Opening Day, with a few deviations.
Aubrey Huff will rest one day with what Bochy described as minor wrist pain. Mark DeRosa will play second base in place of Freddy Sanchez, who is not ready. Bochy plans to startAaron Rowand in center field and have Andres Torres DH but would not say why. Torres is not hurt.
Snow wins: A team of prospects managed by J.T. Snow scored three runs in the third and final inning to beat Shawon Dunston's team 3-0 in an intrasquad game.
"We had a bet, and he has to buy me dinner now," Snow said. "It'll probably be the food court at the mall."
The Snows had five hits in the inning against Jason Stoffel, including singles by Charlie Culberson, Brandon Belt (after he fouled a ball hard off his foot), Conor Gillaspie andBrandon Crawford and a Terry Evans double. Tommy Joseph hit a sacrifice fly.
Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2011
(02-24) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --
Manager Bruce Bochy announced a rotation Thursday that looks like last year's with one exception: Jonathan Sanchez will be second and Barry Zito fourth, a flip-flop that makes sense because Sanchez had a better year.
The Giants will separate their right-handers, Tim Lincecum at No. 1 and Matt Cain at No. 3, which has two benefits: ensuring the three lefties do not start consecutively and alternating between pitchers who usually go deep in games and those who do not.
Madison Bumgarner will be fifth again so he can be skipped in April, if necessary, to preserve his arm. Even in providing that explanation, Bochy said, "We're not concerned in the least about how much work he had last year. That said, we'll watch all these guys. (Bumgarner) got stronger as the season went on."
Lincecum and Bumgarner will face Arizona in today's Cactus League opener. Bochy said the lineup will be "fairly close" to what he envisions for Opening Day, with a few deviations.
Aubrey Huff will rest one day with what Bochy described as minor wrist pain. Mark DeRosa will play second base in place of Freddy Sanchez, who is not ready. Bochy plans to startAaron Rowand in center field and have Andres Torres DH but would not say why. Torres is not hurt.
Snow wins: A team of prospects managed by J.T. Snow scored three runs in the third and final inning to beat Shawon Dunston's team 3-0 in an intrasquad game.
"We had a bet, and he has to buy me dinner now," Snow said. "It'll probably be the food court at the mall."
The Snows had five hits in the inning against Jason Stoffel, including singles by Charlie Culberson, Brandon Belt (after he fouled a ball hard off his foot), Conor Gillaspie andBrandon Crawford and a Terry Evans double. Tommy Joseph hit a sacrifice fly.
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[h1]Bochy's pitching rotation moves Sanchez to No. 2[/h1]
Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2011
(02-24) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --
Manager Bruce Bochy announced a rotation Thursday that looks like last year's with one exception: Jonathan Sanchez will be second and Barry Zito fourth, a flip-flop that makes sense because Sanchez had a better year.
The Giants will separate their right-handers, Tim Lincecum at No. 1 and Matt Cain at No. 3, which has two benefits: ensuring the three lefties do not start consecutively and alternating between pitchers who usually go deep in games and those who do not.
Madison Bumgarner will be fifth again so he can be skipped in April, if necessary, to preserve his arm. Even in providing that explanation, Bochy said, "We're not concerned in the least about how much work he had last year. That said, we'll watch all these guys. (Bumgarner) got stronger as the season went on."
Lincecum and Bumgarner will face Arizona in today's Cactus League opener. Bochy said the lineup will be "fairly close" to what he envisions for Opening Day, with a few deviations.
Aubrey Huff will rest one day with what Bochy described as minor wrist pain. Mark DeRosa will play second base in place of Freddy Sanchez, who is not ready. Bochy plans to startAaron Rowand in center field and have Andres Torres DH but would not say why. Torres is not hurt.
Snow wins: A team of prospects managed by J.T. Snow scored three runs in the third and final inning to beat Shawon Dunston's team 3-0 in an intrasquad game.
"We had a bet, and he has to buy me dinner now," Snow said. "It'll probably be the food court at the mall."
The Snows had five hits in the inning against Jason Stoffel, including singles by Charlie Culberson, Brandon Belt (after he fouled a ball hard off his foot), Conor Gillaspie andBrandon Crawford and a Terry Evans double. Tommy Joseph hit a sacrifice fly.
Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2011
(02-24) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --
Manager Bruce Bochy announced a rotation Thursday that looks like last year's with one exception: Jonathan Sanchez will be second and Barry Zito fourth, a flip-flop that makes sense because Sanchez had a better year.
The Giants will separate their right-handers, Tim Lincecum at No. 1 and Matt Cain at No. 3, which has two benefits: ensuring the three lefties do not start consecutively and alternating between pitchers who usually go deep in games and those who do not.
Madison Bumgarner will be fifth again so he can be skipped in April, if necessary, to preserve his arm. Even in providing that explanation, Bochy said, "We're not concerned in the least about how much work he had last year. That said, we'll watch all these guys. (Bumgarner) got stronger as the season went on."
Lincecum and Bumgarner will face Arizona in today's Cactus League opener. Bochy said the lineup will be "fairly close" to what he envisions for Opening Day, with a few deviations.
Aubrey Huff will rest one day with what Bochy described as minor wrist pain. Mark DeRosa will play second base in place of Freddy Sanchez, who is not ready. Bochy plans to startAaron Rowand in center field and have Andres Torres DH but would not say why. Torres is not hurt.
Snow wins: A team of prospects managed by J.T. Snow scored three runs in the third and final inning to beat Shawon Dunston's team 3-0 in an intrasquad game.
"We had a bet, and he has to buy me dinner now," Snow said. "It'll probably be the food court at the mall."
The Snows had five hits in the inning against Jason Stoffel, including singles by Charlie Culberson, Brandon Belt (after he fouled a ball hard off his foot), Conor Gillaspie andBrandon Crawford and a Terry Evans double. Tommy Joseph hit a sacrifice fly.
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I saw this coming with Sanchez being the number two starter.
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brian wilson starting to look very amish.
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brian wilson starting to look very amish.
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[h1]Phillies should get their fill of Giants' Lopez[/h1]
(02-25) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --The Phillies might be favored to win the National League pennant, but folks who are making World Series hotel reservations in Philadelphia should consider two words:
Javier Lopez.
They say the road to the Series goes through Philadelphia. If the Phillies face the Giants again in the postseason they will have to go through Lopez, a sidewinding left-hander whose own path to athletic success included a significant roadblock: At age 12, he had open-heart surgery.
The Phillies' two biggest hitters are the left-handed Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. Together they faced Lopez 10 times in the 2010 National League Championship Series and managed one hit, a Howard double in Game 4 in San Francisco.
The duo's futility against Lopez extends to 1-for-18 with the regular season included. Utley's next hit against Lopez will be his first.
As close as most of the NLCS games were, one can argue - and many fans have - that the Giants would not have won the pennant had they not sent John Bowker and Joe Martinez to Pittsburgh to get Lopez in July.
"That's absolutely a compliment," the 33-year-old northern Virginia product said, though he deflected praise by arguing that his success was a by-product of the great work of starters Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and Madison Bumgarner, plus the way the bullpen was set up.
"The roles made my job so much easier, knowing who I had to focus on," Lopez said.
"When you're facing Lincecum and Cain and Sanchy and Bumgarner, and you're seeing all those different arm angles and different kinds of stuff, and I'm coming in with a little funk of my own, that obviously gave me an advantage. The deception really worked."
This will be Lopez's final season before free agency. If the Giants and Phillies truly establish an October rivalry, general manager Brian Sabean might need to grab the reliever's feet and hold tightly.
Teams have collected pitchers who have success against their biggest potential postseason rivals, or even players on that team.
A good example was another left-handed sidewinder, Mike Myers, who was known initially in his career, including four seasons in Colorado and Arizona, as the "Bonds killer" before the Giants slugger caught up with him.
Bobby Evans, the Giants' vice president of baseball operations, said Utley and Howard were not mentioned in internal trade discussions about Lopez. When Dan Runzler and Jeremy Affeldt got hurt in short order, the Giants spent eight days in late July without a left-handed reliever.
"We were just looking to get through August," Evans said, adding it was "certainly possible" the Giants would not have pursued Lopez had either Runzler or Affeldt stayed off the disabled list.
Lopez talks often about the "chess game" he must play as a lefty specialist. He largely relies on a sinker and a "Frisbee slider," not "blow-away kind of stuff," as he put it. And the lefty hitters he faces know his pitches well.
Utley and Howard had plenty of opportunities to see the pitches in the NLCS and adjust. Lopez and catcher Buster Posey kept changing pitch strategy to ensure they would not. Each out that Lopez recorded against that duo boosted him that much more.
"Every time I was able to have some success, especially with a particular plan I was able to execute with Buster, knowing he and I were on the same page, made it a whole lot easier to go into those confrontations with some confidence," Lopez said.
Phillies fans might find it interesting that the reliever who broke their hearts was diagnosed with a hole in his heart during a routine physical before seventh-grade football.
"I was a little skinny kid," Lopez said. "The doctor heard a little murmur, I went to the cardiologist and the next week I was on the table having open-heart surgery."
Without the operation, Lopez might have developed an enlarged heart. After their 1-for-10 against Lopez in the NLCS, Utley and Howard surely would have to concede the pitcher's heart was plenty big enough.
Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
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[h1]Phillies should get their fill of Giants' Lopez[/h1]
(02-25) 04:00 PST Scottsdale, Ariz. --The Phillies might be favored to win the National League pennant, but folks who are making World Series hotel reservations in Philadelphia should consider two words:
Javier Lopez.
They say the road to the Series goes through Philadelphia. If the Phillies face the Giants again in the postseason they will have to go through Lopez, a sidewinding left-hander whose own path to athletic success included a significant roadblock: At age 12, he had open-heart surgery.
The Phillies' two biggest hitters are the left-handed Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. Together they faced Lopez 10 times in the 2010 National League Championship Series and managed one hit, a Howard double in Game 4 in San Francisco.
The duo's futility against Lopez extends to 1-for-18 with the regular season included. Utley's next hit against Lopez will be his first.
As close as most of the NLCS games were, one can argue - and many fans have - that the Giants would not have won the pennant had they not sent John Bowker and Joe Martinez to Pittsburgh to get Lopez in July.
"That's absolutely a compliment," the 33-year-old northern Virginia product said, though he deflected praise by arguing that his success was a by-product of the great work of starters Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and Madison Bumgarner, plus the way the bullpen was set up.
"The roles made my job so much easier, knowing who I had to focus on," Lopez said.
"When you're facing Lincecum and Cain and Sanchy and Bumgarner, and you're seeing all those different arm angles and different kinds of stuff, and I'm coming in with a little funk of my own, that obviously gave me an advantage. The deception really worked."
This will be Lopez's final season before free agency. If the Giants and Phillies truly establish an October rivalry, general manager Brian Sabean might need to grab the reliever's feet and hold tightly.
Teams have collected pitchers who have success against their biggest potential postseason rivals, or even players on that team.
A good example was another left-handed sidewinder, Mike Myers, who was known initially in his career, including four seasons in Colorado and Arizona, as the "Bonds killer" before the Giants slugger caught up with him.
Bobby Evans, the Giants' vice president of baseball operations, said Utley and Howard were not mentioned in internal trade discussions about Lopez. When Dan Runzler and Jeremy Affeldt got hurt in short order, the Giants spent eight days in late July without a left-handed reliever.
"We were just looking to get through August," Evans said, adding it was "certainly possible" the Giants would not have pursued Lopez had either Runzler or Affeldt stayed off the disabled list.
Lopez talks often about the "chess game" he must play as a lefty specialist. He largely relies on a sinker and a "Frisbee slider," not "blow-away kind of stuff," as he put it. And the lefty hitters he faces know his pitches well.
Utley and Howard had plenty of opportunities to see the pitches in the NLCS and adjust. Lopez and catcher Buster Posey kept changing pitch strategy to ensure they would not. Each out that Lopez recorded against that duo boosted him that much more.
"Every time I was able to have some success, especially with a particular plan I was able to execute with Buster, knowing he and I were on the same page, made it a whole lot easier to go into those confrontations with some confidence," Lopez said.
Phillies fans might find it interesting that the reliever who broke their hearts was diagnosed with a hole in his heart during a routine physical before seventh-grade football.
"I was a little skinny kid," Lopez said. "The doctor heard a little murmur, I went to the cardiologist and the next week I was on the table having open-heart surgery."
Without the operation, Lopez might have developed an enlarged heart. After their 1-for-10 against Lopez in the NLCS, Utley and Howard surely would have to concede the pitcher's heart was plenty big enough.
Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
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Where is the audio streaming from?
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Where is the audio streaming from?
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Romo needs to trim that disgusting beard though.
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Romo needs to trim that disgusting beard though.
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Screw you, Red. I'm buying it before you. I need a Lopez jersey. My Javy Lopez #18 is outdated.Originally Posted by Tim Lincecum
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Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
Go get your Mike Redmond jersey instead.
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Screw you, Red. I'm buying it before you. I need a Lopez jersey. My Javy Lopez #18 is outdated.Originally Posted by Tim Lincecum
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Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
Go get your Mike Redmond jersey instead.
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Mike Redmond just retired after 2010.Originally Posted by Paul Is On Tilt
Screw you, Red. I'm buying it before you. I need a Lopez jersey. My Javy Lopez #18 is outdated.Originally Posted by Tim Lincecum
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Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
Go get your Mike Redmond jersey instead.
He was number 55. Redmond wearing 55 > Lincecum wearing 55.
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Mike Redmond just retired after 2010.Originally Posted by Paul Is On Tilt
Screw you, Red. I'm buying it before you. I need a Lopez jersey. My Javy Lopez #18 is outdated.Originally Posted by Tim Lincecum
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Javier Lopez.
If they sign him to some sort of extension, I may consider buying his jersey.Having the same last name and all.
Go get your Mike Redmond jersey instead.
He was number 55. Redmond wearing 55 > Lincecum wearing 55.
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Lincecum already giving up a run in the first
Edit: Make that 3.
Edit: Make that 3.
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Lincecum already giving up a run in the first
Edit: Make that 3.
Edit: Make that 3.
ryan braun
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Lincecum sucks! Smh 3 runs?! Killing my Spring Training Fantasy team.
ryan braun
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Lincecum sucks! Smh 3 runs?! Killing my Spring Training Fantasy team.
