Clearly, Aurilia is done with the Giants and many believe the 38-year-old should just call it a day. In fact, he was reportedly pondering retirement, but now has other plans. Aurilia says he’s okay accepting a bench role in order to continue his career. No kidding? Um, I doubt you have any other option at this point, Rich.
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Could that be enough for him to have some value? It’s a stretch, no doubt. Burriss’ big problems are a complete lack of extra-base pop and an inability to hit righties. He’s a switch hitter, but perhaps he should just abandon the whole batting left thing, as he managed just a 510 OPS against righties. Of course, that would leave Burriss with an upside of being the weak side of a platoon. Oh boy!
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Kurt Thomas is getting more burn with Andrew Bogut out, but there are better Fantasy options. On Monday evening, I joined Tom and Tamer of RotoExperts.com on their basketball podcast. Apparently, I’m the first repeat guest of the season, yet there were no cookies to mark the occasion! But that’s okay, at least there was
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Have you seen what’s going on in San Antonio with the perennial contender Spurs? Thursday night the Spurs dropped their third straight game to slip to 4-6 – the first time they’ve had a losing record through 10 games since 1996. But stranger yet, it was Utah that walked into the AT&T Center and emerged victorious, the first win for the Jazz in San Antonio in a decade – snapping a run of 20 straight losses.
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After staying relatively healthy in 2008, Anderson missed time this year with a quad problem, and his extra-base pop has been waning for a couple of seasons now.
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Overall, Lewis was incredibly unproductive this season, and what modest pop he flashed last year disappeared. The big problem was he simply couldn’t hit lefties (.164 BA), so he was better down the stretch (786 OPS after the break) as a part-time player when he was not exposed to southpaws. And he put up that decent second half despite an absolutely crap September. The Giants are expected to try to lure a free agent outfielder this winter, and that could leave Lewis out in the cold. He may still bounce back, but so far, he’s been a big disappointment.
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He didn’t get a lot of burn Saturday as the Bucks went small against the run-and-gun Warriors, yet he still managed to go a perfect 5-for-5 from the line while scoring nine points with four boards and a block off the bench. Not bad considering how little he played.
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