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Posted November 13, 2008 at 4:43 pm Tags: Barry Zito, Henry Schulman (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Barry Zito Was Not a Good Free-Agent Signing (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted November 13, 2008 at 12:56 pmIn honor of the AL Cy Young Award winner – Cliff Lee – I thought I’d create a little graph:
Oh, that tantalizing question mark. You can see that the trend – a trend that’s completely impervious to sample-size challenges or any other brand of cynicism – demonstrates that there will almost certainly be two LHSWWCCJOSBWTCYs next season. Could Barry …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Phelps in the Orange and Black (Giants Win)
Posted November 4, 2008 at 9:44 amThe Giants have signed 30-year-old minor leaguer Josh Phelps to a deal just in case they can’t get Mark Teixeira to sign a contract for less than they paid Barry Zito. I’m being sarcastic now. This guy has played for five teams — the Indians, Rays, Pirates, Yanks and Cards — since the Jays traded him in 2004. Grant over …
Tags: Barry Zito, Josh Phelps, Mark Teixeira, Orlando Hudson, Sarah Palin; (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mark Teixeira and the San Francisco Giants: Only 99.8% Ridiculous (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted November 3, 2008 at 1:20 pmThe Giants can’t hit. The most expensive guy on the free-agent market can hit. The Giants aren’t shy about spending money. Conclusion: Here come the Mark-Teixeira-to-the-Giants?-articles. With Barry Zito only having five more years and $92M left on his contract, a Teixeira contract would basically pay for itself, so it makes a lot of sense.
The pros:
Teixeira can hit.
Teixeira can field.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Reminiscing and Predicting (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted October 24, 2008 at 12:48 pmWhen Comcast Sports Bay Area Net Net ran a series of classic Giants games this year, I tried to save a few on my DVR for the dark, baseball-free, winter days. I tucked them away in the deep recesses of my DVR for a baseball-withdrawl emergency, and I made it all the way to last night. Couldn’t sleep, wasn’t feeling well…if I went to see …
Tags: Barry Zito, baseball, Comcast, David Price, Don Robinson, Don Robinson-related, Fred Lewis, Garry Templeton, Jeffrey Leonard, Joey Cora, Jose Castillo, Juan Pierre, Tony Gwynn, USD (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill James and the 2009 San Francisco Giants, Part II (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted October 23, 2008 at 11:08 amAnd lo, after Bill James begat the hitter projections, a bright light emanated from his abacus, and, yea, he came forth verily with the pitcher projections for 2009. On the third projection day, he rested. Thou who art beho…
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Matt Cain with a winning record?
Tim Lincecum with an ERA over 3.00?
Barry Zito, a productive, worthwhile, and competent member …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Schadenfreude (McCovey Chronicles: Front Page Posts)
Posted October 16, 2008 at 11:23 amFor most of the postseason, I’ve rooted against teams. If the Dodgers won the World Series with a team this young and promising…good gravy. That’d be like the Dodgers having their sacrificial goat and eating it too. If I had to watch chinless sub-human A.J. Pierzynski for three playoff series, I’d have to knee my television in the groin. Boooo, one team. Boooooo, another. No …
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Aaron Rowand, Barry Bonds, Barry Zito, Dodger Stadium, Jose Castillo, San Francisco (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In Defense of Barry Zito (Giants Cove)
Posted October 15, 2008 at 12:03 amBarry Zito had a very, very bad season last year. Point blank, he undeniably is and probably never will be worth the money we’re paying him. He’ll probably have a career of being either league average or worse, while being paid CC Sabathia money. All that being true, he still manages to be cruel in [...]
Tags: Barry Zito, Benito Santiago, Bill Mueller, Henry Sosa, Johnny Lemaster, Jonathan Sanchez, Matt Cain, Mike Hampton, Noah Lowry, Tim Lincecum, Tito Fuentes (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Giants little more than longshot in Sabathia sweepstakes (SFGate Sports: San Francisco Giants)
Posted October 12, 2008 at 12:00 amLet’s say the Giants won’t sign CC Sabathia for two reasons: Bill Neukom and Barry Zito. Neukom, the new managing general partner, has been a Giants investor since 1995 and a general partner since 2003. Until recently, the Giants never heavily went after an…
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Posted October 8, 2008 at 12:56 pmI’m assuming the conversation went something like this:
Magowan: Dang it. We need to get a ‘face of the franchise.’ Brian, please get us a new ‘face of the franchise.’
Sabean: Uh. Okay. There really isn’t that much out there, though.
Magowan: What about Barry Zito?
Sabean: Ha. Yeah, right. He’ll cost about $50M more than he’s worth.
Magowan: He is a popular player around the Bay Area, is …