Lincecum gets what he wants, and I guess the Giants do as well. ….The two-year, $40.5 million deal, which was completed Tuesday but will not be official until he passes a physical next week… This deal shows that Lincecum is saying that unless the Giants start building an offense that matches his talents, he won’t be a Giant once he reaches free agency. Another...

The Yankees make a move that maybe the Giants should have, or should I say, the Mariners make a move that maybe the Giants should have, trading an up and coming young pitcher for a hitter I believe has the chance to be an MVP candidate fort he next ten years. …. After trying forever to talk the Mariners into trading Felix Hernandez, (Brian) Cashman instead convinced them to...

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Henry Schulman acts the puppet for the Giants in this little bit of revisionist history: …. The same organization that gave Aubrey Huff 2/22 couldn’t give Beltran 2/26, especially after giving away its top pitching prospect to get him in July? It is a fair question that speaks to a disconnect between the faithful’s expectations and the team’s philosophy, so soon after...

Sabean couldn’t figure out a way to make this happen? That sure seems like an inexpensive, short-term risk, sort of like the one he threw away on Mark DeRosa, for instance; with the exception of being a risk on a player who actually is a great hitter when healthy.

Bonds gets slap on the wrist after $50 million dollars and 9 years: …. Nearly nine years, thousands of attorneys’ hours and reportedly more than $50 million of taxpayer money later, Barry Bonds has finally received notice of punishment for what prosecutors insist was his lying under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs. Considering the sizable investment of prosecutors...

Looks like I made the big-time: …. It is my pleasure, as founder and editor of this site, to present the second-annual list here of the 50 best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame. I debuted the first version of this project in December 2010 and based it around a simple idea. Rather than have rankings be based on some all-powerful stat or my opinion, I sought votes from...

Over at Where have you gone, Joe… OBM friend and contributor +mia has a lot to say that makes sense: …. You’ll Get Nothing And Like It. This year’s free agent market includes five of the best players in the game at positions the Giants have been pathetic at for years. And we get none of them. ’nuff said.

…. After today’s Angel Pagan deal, we’re still looking at one of the weakest outfields in major league history. Scheirholz, Cabrera and Pagan combined to hit less than 25 home runs last season, and playing at PacBell won’t help either of the newcomers boost their stats. Bochy envisions Huff playing some left and right to give Belt more consistency by settling...

Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young Award today, edging Roy Halladay. I think it’s pretty obvious that Halladay had a better season. Let’s not forget that Kershaw pitched against the Triple AAA Giants six times, going 5-0 against us, with a line that reads out of a high school newspaper: 42 IP 29 Hits 5 ER 49 SO 0.93 ERA. I think it’s safe to say that pitching...

You know, I was gonna start this post by saying, “with all due respect,” but since I’m addressing the handful of backtalkers who felt that it was OK to show me no respect, I’ll forgo the kind words. I wrote an analysis of the Sanchez trade that was based in fact. I backed up my words with actual statistics. If people think this is a forum where they can...

Once again, the Giants make a move that baffles: …. The Royals traded outfielder Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for left-hander Jonathan Sanchez on Wednesday Um, yeah, that’s pretty much a joke. The Yankees would’ve given consideration to trading Jesus Montero for Sanchez. Jonathan Sanchez is one of the top young left-handers in the game. If you’re trading a...

“…. One of the great forgotten facts about the United States is that not very long ago the wealthy weren’t all that wealthy. Up until the 1960s, the gap between rich and poor in the United States was relatively narrow. In fact, in that era marginal tax rates in the highest income bracket were in excess of 90 percent. For every dollar you made above $250,000, you...

And now, finally, the pitching has let the team down. Lincecum, in his last two starts has given up 11 runs. Cain in his last two has given up 7 runs. Vogelsong has seen his ERA go up by .8 runs over the last three weeks. The once unbeatable bullpen has failed several times since the start of August. Asking the pitchers to throw shutouts game after game, has finally ended any...

The Giants finally made a couple of moves that made sense, cutting Miguel Tejada and Aaron Rowand. The local media hounds would like you to believe these represent bold and risky moves. They are not. They are a last ditch effort to salvage this once promising season. These moves are, in effect, far too little, too late. On July 28th, the Giants finished off a series win in Philadelphia...

Tim Lincecum finally succumbed to the pressure of having to shut out your opponent every time out, falling to the hapless Chicago Cubs 7-0 tonight. Wow. After stifling one more team inning after inning, it finally dawned on Timmy what we’ve been talking about for most of the last two months…. That this Giants offense has fallen to the depths of Hades. Watching journeyman...

It appears that Hensley Meulens’ job isn’t on the line, at least publicly, but it should be. The Giants are scoring 2.9 runs a game since the All Star break. They have the fewest runs scored, fewest hits, fewest home runs, fewest walks, fewest total bases, the worst batting average (.229), the worst on-base percentage (.282), the worst slugging percentage (.343), and...

Not to be a dick, but a Wall of Fame that honors Willie McCovey and Marvin Benard is pretty much just a wall of guys that played here. Nothing against Marvin Benard, but he’s a pretty damn mediocre ballplayer. Jason Schmidt was 76-34 for the Giants. Benard was a one and a half years worth of major leaguer. Somebody’s gotta draw a line somewhere. Benard has one really...

We’re gonna lose to Astros again? Really?

I was at last night’s game. Jesus, did Cain let the team down. What a drag. By the time the crowd settled in, the game was over. Bummer. I don’t know how this team can turn it around. From where we were sitting, (front row, right behind Bochy) it was painful watching Fontenot, Rowand, Ross and Huff, who all look completely lost at the plate nine swings out of ten...

We’re gonna lose 6-0 to a 40-win team? Really?

As the 2011 season collapses around the Giants, (or more to the point, as the Giants regress to their true performance level) a friend of mine mentioned that he thought that Tim Lincecum would have a much better career record if he’d been pitching for the Yankees the last four years. I agreed, but said that I thought Matt Cain has really been the guy who’s lost a lot...

Talk about letting your team down…. What a fail by Brian Wilson. Clearly one of the worst losses of the year, simply because the Giants were a struggling team, trying to win their third in a row, on the road, against a quality team. They scored runs, their starter pitched great, and Wilson sucked balls. Awful.

It’s time for some of the players on the Giants to hit or get off the pot. Aubrey Huff Season .249/.304/.381 .685 OPS August .353/.405/..588 .994 OPS Cody Ross Season .246/.335/.391 .726 OPS August .222/.276/.370 .646 OPS Andres Torres Season .231/.317/.346 .663 OPS August .208/.296/.208 .505 OPS These three guys are the key to the team’s chances. Only Huff...

It is possible that the Giants simply aren’t good enough. That their Pythagarean record was not going to be different then their actual. That they would not be the team who did something most teams did not, win more then their runs scored/runs allowed differential said they should. After today], anything is possible.