And it is still raining like shit around here. Good to have, and I got to hit the mountains soon, but I digress. Football is on the back burner for a bit, and the Giants have broken camp. Gonna be a weird year for the Orange and Black as they try to cobble together yet another team that will platoon a little too much for my liking, and be micro-managed by Gabe the Replacer. Got a ittle tired last year of all the AAAA signings, spinning through all the random cast-oofs that were quickly replaced with other castoffs.
A virtual who’s who of who. Lost in all this was something posted today in the Seattle papers about Prelander Berroa, the hard-throwing right hander the Giants got from Minnesota in the Sam Dyson trade. Farhan traded him to the Mariners for Donnie Walton, an injured infielder who was part of the walking wounded when every player seemed to hit the IR.
As one AL scout put it:
“Prelander Berroa for Donnie Walton might have been the worst trade of 2022,” an American League scout told Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times. “And it might not be close.”
They knew what they were getting in Berroa, and they seemed to lose every IFer last year, but Walton likely isn’t here much longer, Sure, it’s early, but these myriad transactions that Farhan and Co seem to specialize in are baffling at best. Moves that serve no other purpose than bringing as many guys through the system as possible, The hoping for finding diamonds in the rough is all well and good, but not addressing things like 1st base with yet another platoon is annoying. Overpaying for Joc was weird as well.
The OF should be better with Joc out of there. At least offensively, but the defense is still a big issue. Davis is gonna play . . . where? 3rd? DH? Flores gets 1st and 2nd. Estrada gets 2nd. Craw gets SS. Luciano backs him up? Estrada? Joc at 1st ? Really? Yaz and his .214 in CF? Villar will hopefully keep rolling. He showed some decent power.
Lots of questions but I think the pitching should be better than last year, even without Rodon. The pen is better as well. I guess.
Not too deep into jazz but yeah, know the name.
Gonna be rough as all the rock stars of our youth keep heading to the big encore in the sky.
Tell ya onr thing, seeing Roibin Trower still cranking it out at 74 (when I saw him last) was nuts. Guy couldn’t weigh more than 110 soaking wet, but he still melted my ears.
This is funny. BAN THE OUTFIELD SHIFT!!!!!
And here goes another one.
RIP David Lindley. Played every kind of stringed instrument with everyone. Saw him with Bonnie Raitt a thousand years ago.
New thread is up.