SF Giants 2010 First Year Player Draft Signings
Follow-up (see main article on list in right margin):
MLB teams have until 9:00PM Monday August 16, 2010 to sign their picks from the 2010 first year player draft. We should see a flurry of signings today.
August 16, 2010-- Jim Callis of Baseball America reports the Giants signed their number two overall pick, outfielder Jarrett Parker of Virginia, for $700,000. In 2009, Parker batted .355 with 16 home runs for the Virginia Cavaliers, and is considered a potential five tool player. Plays center field and has blinding speed on the bases and in the field. Power potential makes him a possible first baseman.
August 16, 2010-- Yahoo Sports reports the Giants signed first round pick Gary Brown out of Cal State Fullerton for a reported $1.3 million. Brown has tremendous potential as a fast tracked lead-off hitter and centerfielder.
June 19, 2010-- SF Chronicle sports writer Henry Schulman reported the Giants signed third round pick Carter Jurica and fourth round pick Seth Rosin.
The San Francisco Giants report they have come to terms with 33 players from this year's draft, including all of their first 14 selections, and 18 of their top 20 picks.
Mike Fontenot brings range and athleticism to a Giants infield currently dominated by older and less agile players. In his six years with the Cubs, Fontenot played 247 games at second base, 63 games at third, and 8 games at shortstop. He will likely spend time at shortstop with Edgar Renteria injured again, but we may also see Fontenot eventually grab a lot of game time at second base if Freddie Sanchez continues slumping.
picked up from Kansas City for a player to be named later. SF Chronicle beat writer Henry Schulman reported the Giants will play $250,000 of Guillen’s $12 million 2010 salary; Guillen, 34, was in the last year of a three year $36 million deal with KC and was the team’s every day DH. This season, he's batting .255 with 62 RBIs, 16 home runs and a .743 OPS (to compare, Pablo Sandoval has a .726 OPS).
The day after Bruce Bochy used pitcher Matt Cain off the bench as a pinch hitter for starter Jonathan Sanchez in the 5th inning of a 4-1 ballgame in Atlanta, the Giants have designated pitcher Todd Wellemeyer for assignment and called up infielder Emmanuel Burriss.
As Yogi Berra, the Zen master of circular thought, might have put it, “You can see a long way off what’s right in front of your face.”
When the dog-days of August give way to the crunch days of September, each game and each series for the Giants becomes a test of survival and their sheer will to win. The ideal result will be a playoff berth and a shot at the World Series; but the numbers won’t dictate that, the players will.
27 walks and a 1.54 WHIP. It’s just that he couldn’t seem to harness his location, and balls were sailing over opposing batters’ heads and behind their arching bodies. The final straws were likely Bautista’s four pitch walk of Dodger reliever Hong-Chih Kuo on July 31st, and his wild game against the Rockies on August 4th during which he hit Colorado third baseman Melvin Mora on the side of the left knee.
Each year, the MLB non-waiver trade deadline produces innumerable “winners and losers” lists from Baseball sports writers around the country. It’s an opportunity for fans to step away from local broadcast and print media happy-talk about their baseball team and get a sense of what the national press thinks.
Despite the Giants sitting on the sidelines, the trade wire for hitters was sizzling this year. For example, the San Diego Padres delt for Miguel Tejada of the Orioles (199 hits, .313 AVG with 46 doubles in 2009) and immediately batted him 4th in their line-up at shortstop. What did they give up? Wynn Pelzer, a Double A pitcher at San Antonio with a 6-9 record and a 4.20 ERA this year. Pelzer was the Padres’ 9th round pick in the 2007 amateur draft. Oh, and the Padres also received $1.15 million from Baltimore as part of that deal.
again, like Bart Simpson in "The Simpsons" intro. In a game against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday July 20th in LA, Mattingly managed to violate both of these precepts in one inning and it cost the Dodgers the game.
MLB rule 8.06D states a manager or coach can only make one trip to the pitcher's mound in an inning; a second trip means the pitcher is automatically removed from the game. Giants Manager Bruce Bochy saw Mattingly's slight misstep, bounded out of the dugout and informed the umps of the violation. Bochy also told them he was prepared to protest the game if Mattingly wasn't called on the gaff. Although the homeplate umpire also recognized the violation, for some reason he kept it to himself and waited for Bochy to protest it before taking action.
from the Nationals, the Giants look up and see themselves still in 4th place in the NL West, four games behind the San Diego Padres.
> Twenty-year-old Madison Bumgarner won his first Major League game, beating the Brewers on Tuesday July 6th (8 innings, 3 hits allowed, no runs, 3 walks, 5 strike-outs). The next night, Tim Lincecum was facing Milwaukee, and during the telecast a brief shot of the Giants dugout happened to catch a significant moment: at the dugout railing, in a tight group, were Lincecum, Posey and Bumgarner animatedly talking and laughing together. They were confident, at ease and very much at home. 
The Brewers should be, and likely will be, dealing hitting soon. The Giants would love to get superstar Ryan Braun, but the Milwaukee front office would have to be extremely over medicated to even consider that. Corey Hart was apparently seriously discussed, with Jonathan Sanchez as part of the package the Brewers wanted. But, once again, the Giants hold on to their pitching like a security blanket, snarling and hissing at the real world, too paralyzed to let go.
