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Loading ...Giants expected to make huge offer to Sabathia (Giants Headlines)
Posted November 20, 2008 at 2:47 amAn agent familiar with the situation said Wednesday he expected the San Francisco Giants to make an offer to CC Sabathia’s agents.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...San Francisco Giants Rumors, both Real and Invented (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted November 19, 2008 at 1:23 pmSometime in January, when all of the free agents have been signed, I’ll sit down to write a post and start crying. I won’t want to write about Atlee Hammaker memories. I won’t want to write about how cool Donruss Diamond Kings were. I won’t want to write a 14,000-word Lord of the Rings parody with Sabean as Frodo, Bochy as Sam, Magowan as Golem, …
Tags: Aaron Rowand, Adam, Adam Dunn, baseball, Bruce Bochy hasn;, Fred Lewis, insurance plan;, Ken Rosenthal, Manny Ramirez, Mark Teixeira, Mark Teixiera, Pat Burrell, plot device;, Randy Winn, san francisco giants, USD (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Edgar Renteria or Orlando Cabrera? On my San Francisco Giants? (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted November 18, 2008 at 12:33 pmThe horrifying, soul-masticating postscript to yesterday’s post about Rafael Furcal:
Jeff Lane, the agent for shortstop Edgar Renteria, said Monday that he expects San Francisco to make his client “some kind of formal offer” this week. Lane said that Renteria, a career .290 hitter, has drawn interest from about six teams.
This closely parallels the situation with Furcal, 31, who’s believed to have received an …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rafael Furcal and the San Francisco Giants: Now with Indentations, Bulletpoints, and Whathaveyou (McCovey Chronicles)
Posted November 17, 2008 at 1:31 pmThe hottest Giant-on-free-agent-action rumor has to do with Rafael Furcal. He’s a player who:
is pretty good when healthy
plays a position that, before Manny Burriss’s September hot streak, was a top priority for the Giants
That sounds…not horrible. It beats the yearly migration of center fielders swimming upstream to mate and expire in McCovey Cove. But allow me to join Lefty and wonder what …
Tags: Julio Lugo, Manny Burriss, Rafael Furcal, San Francisco, san francisco giants (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Giants sign reliever Affeldt (SacBee -- Wire MLB - San Francisco)
Posted November 17, 2008 at 1:05 pmThe San Francisco Giants signed left- handed relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt to a two-year contract on Monday.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Affeldt went 1-1 with a 3.33 earned run average in a club-high 74 appearances for Cincinnati last season. He struck out 80 batters in 78 1/3 innings and posted a 2.23 ERA over his final 34 outings.”Though just 29, Jeremy brings a …
Tags: Brian Sabean, Brian Wilson, CINCINNATI, Colorado Rockies, Jeremy Affeldt, Kansas City, san francisco giants (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Memories of Bill North (Giants Win)
Posted November 14, 2008 at 11:24 am
photo by campy1965Josh Wilker at Cardboard Gods has posted a nice essay on Bill North’s career, which saw him joining the Orange and Black in 1979 and setting the SF Giants’ single-season record for stolen bases. It’s hard to believe all this happened nearly 30 years ago: The Giants were coming off their best season …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tim Lincecum wins the Cy Young Award (Chronicle Podcasts: S.F. Giants)
Posted November 11, 2008 at 4:10 pmAt a press conference at AT&T Park, Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants talks about being named the top pitcher in the National League for 2008.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tim Lincecum Wins CYA (Bay City Ball)
Posted November 11, 2008 at 12:28 pmToday the BBWAA named Tim Lincecum the 2008 National League CY Young Award Winner.
From MLB.com:
Lincecum became only the second Giant to capture the Cy Young, joining 1967 winner Mike McCormick, and the first second-year player to earn the distinction since right-handers Dwight Gooden of the Mets and Bret Saberhagen of Kansas City secured the 1985 [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lincecum captures NL Cy Young (SacBee -- Wire MLB - San Francisco)
Posted November 11, 2008 at 12:10 pmSan Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum has been named the 2008 National League Cy Young Award winner by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.Lincecum placed first on 23 of the 32 ballots cast by two writers from each NL city to become just the second hurler in Giants history to win the award and the first since lefty Mike McCormick in 1967. Lincecum …
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Posted November 10, 2008 at 12:55 amHeadline from MLB.com:
Giants look to add bat, bolster bullpen
Club has cleared up to $20 million for free-agent spending
Twenty million? Well, get the collared shirt out of the wash, and take me to Red Robin. We’re big spenders now.
Of course, that headline is merely informational. It isn’t as entertaining as this masterpiece:
Giants enter offseason thinking title
“A Nightmare on King …