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MLB Today: Giants Building With ex-Dodgers Staff

November 29, 2019 | by RotoRob | Comments Comments Off on MLB Today: Giants Building With ex-Dodgers Staff
Farhan Zaid is tasked with leading the San Francisco Giants back to respectability.
Farhan Zaidi was just the first step of the Giants trying to become the Dodgers. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

As the San Francisco Giants look to rebuild their team and try to get back to .500 if not contention, they’ve perhaps been taking a page out of the book of the class of the division.

With the L.A. Dodgers dominating the NL West in recent years, it only makes sense for the Giants to try to tap into that braintrust.

This process began last year when San Francisco hired former Dodger General Manager Farhan Zaidi to be the president of baseball operations (see video below), and then a couple of weeks ago, Gabe Kapler was tabbed as the new manager.

In taking over for Hall of Fame-bound manager Bruce Bochy, Kapler comes to the Giants after two ill-fated years as the Phillies’ manager. Before that, Kapler was director of player development for the Dodgers.

Well, he landed on his feet pretty well, but let’s hope for the Giants’ sake he has more success on the west coast than he did in Philly.

Quick Hits

  • Shortstop Jorge Polanco, coming off a massive breakout season for the Twins, had arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle on Friday, but is expected to be good to go for Spring Training. An All-Star for the first time this year, Polanco hit .295 with 40 doubles.
  • Free agent reliever Carl Edwards Jr. has reportedly signed a one-year, $950,000 deal with Seattle. He was a stud in 2018 when the Cubs won the World Series, but was dumpster fire this year. However, he was dealing with a thoracic strain, so let’s cut him some slack. Edwards has a chance to be a serious steal for the Mariners and could easily enter into the closer discussion given the team’s lack of an established ninth-inning man.
  • Pittsburgh finally has its new manager, hiring Minnesota bench coach Derek Shelton away from the Twins. The Pirates now have a new president, GM and manager as they seek to recover from a season that saw them sink to the NL Central cellar. This will be the 49-year-old Shelton’s first crack at managing in the bigs. The dude has a lot of work to do to get Pittsburgh back to respectability.
  • The Astros have agreed to a one-year deal with catcher Dustin Garneau, who is expected to battle for the backup job. Houston’s 2019 catching tandem — Robinson Chirinos and Martin Maldonado — are both free agents this winter, and if they have any sense, they will distance themselves from the shit show that will soon engulf all things Astro. Garneau got into 35 games this year with Angels and A’s — the second highest total of his career, which tells you a lot. His career BA is exactly two points above his weight.

RotoRob Tune of the Day

Wisconsin rockers BoDeans hit the scene in 1983 and are still going strong. Their debut album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, came out in 1986 and the opening track was “She’s a Runaway.”

Now it’s your turn. Let us know in the comments below if you think the Giants are headed in the right direction with these moves.

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MLB Today: The End of the Line for Bruce Bochy

September 30, 2019 | by RotoRob | Comments Comments Off on MLB Today: The End of the Line for Bruce Bochy
As the Giants manager since 2007, he’s guided San Francisco through some very good times (three World Series in five years between 2010 and 2014) and some tough spells (a current streak of three straight losing seasons).
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Book Review: Insight Pitch: My Life as a Major League Closer

February 12, 2019 | by JB Branson | Comments Comments Off on Book Review: Insight Pitch: My Life as a Major League Closer
Have you ever been at a baseball stadium or at home watching a game and get the strongest urge to be gripping an old, worn-out baseball? True baseball fans know exactly what we are talking about. You want to feel the laces under your index and middle fingers. You want to smell the dirty leather. We’ll be completely honest with you; we made it through the first chapter of this book, closed it, set it down, and headed straight for the garage. We needed to grip a baseball.
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The 2018 MLB Wire Troll All-Star Team

September 30, 2018 | by RotoRob | Comments Comments Off on The 2018 MLB Wire Troll All-Star Team
Using the wire can provide value in many ways. Sometimes, it offers a temporary fix to an injury issue or it’s simply a case of jumping on a player delivering short-term value. But when you pick up a player and he sticks on your team for all or most of the season and contributes throughout, that is the true definition of waiver wire gold.
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Contest: Win a Silver Freddie Freeman Coin

August 3, 2018 | by RotoRob | Comments (10)
These one-ounce copper coins are mounted in full-colour cardboard and include one player for every major league team. Sold in packages of three (US$19.99), six (US$39.99) or nine (US$59.99), or available in a box of 36 packs (US$249.99), the coins have been fully-licensed based on a deal approved by MLB and MLBPA.
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