San Francisco Giants Off Season Report

Season Wrap Up 2008 saw the Bond-less Giants tied for the 6th worst record in baseball at 72-90, but I actually thought they had a chance of reaching 100 losses so they did better than I thought they would. They went into the year without a solid closer, which effects the rest of the bullpen, and supposed Ace of the staff, Barry Zito had another pathetic year and was even sent to the minors briefly to work on his mechanics and jar his memory on how to pitch in the big leagues. What they did well was manufacture runs and pitchers Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum both had good years with Lincecum winning the Cy Young Award. The smartest thing they did last year was to alert aging SS? Omar Vizquel that they needed to get younger as a team and were no longer going to play him. After all, he only hit .222 (more than 50 points below his career level) with an OBP of .283, but he can still field better than the average SS. Yet, it had to be done! You just can’t score enough runs when you...