Originally posted by SanDiegoGiant:
No team wants our scrap heap. The only position players worth keeping are Sandoval and Schierholtz everyone else can go. Sabean has been putting this type of old player trash on the field for years. Your telling me the Giants couldn't have gotten LaRoche today for nothing, much better than Ishigarbage. The only reason the boys are in it is pitching and now that seems to be falling apart. I think right now we should just hope to finish above .500. They play very well at home, but on the road they are a joke.
Gonna get swept in Atlanta and Colorado then be 5.5 out of Wild Card limping home to play the bucs then the Phillies.......in all reality looking at it realistically we should be sellers if we can find a sucker or two.....sorry for the negative outlook but its the truth and nobody likes the truth.
I agree the truth hurts and a lot of what you say is true.
The problem is they are a year or two behind the curve as far as where the team is in relation to management who are up for new contracts.
That's why the second question is far more important than the first. I doubt the hitter(s) this team would need are available for the price they are willing to pay. La Roche, while an upgrade, wouldn't anchor an order like Holliday and only both would approach sufficiently patching the holes in the Giants lineup.
Laroche didn't come all that cheap and is capable of providing for Boston's current needs, not ours.
What the organization needs to decide is whether Sabean (really) and Bochy (to a lesser extent) did enough with the tools they were given to maximize the win total of the team over the years they were in charge.
The question that needs asking first is "Who is responsible for believing this roster as assembled in spring training including New key contributers Sandoval, Lewis/Schierholtz, Ishikawa, Burriss, Renteria, Uribe, would constitute a competitive Major League squad."
Clearly the fact that not a single one of these players, or anyone else in the so called "EVERYDAY LINEUP" other than Rowand plays the same position or hits in the same spot in the order two days in a row leads you to believe there was a lot of Kool-aid in the club house in Scottsdale.
Add your point that they aren't mature enough to take the same home team on the road and you have basic issues which should have been evident before (while) they were overachieving in the first half.
As the sports cliche goes It is what it is, no matter what you want to see.
I think we are sellers and the only thing we have to sell is no better than a La Roche... Pieces that would help a contender but no one that's a "difference maker"
