Per Jayson Stark

"We're hearing that the Marlins' Dan Uggla trade talk with the Giants and Rangers got "pretty hot and heavy" at the GM meetings..."

What do you think it would cost us?  Too much?

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"You have to have that mix of veterans and young guys," said hitting coach Carney Lansford, who has watched the Giants gather 10 hits or more in nine consecutive games. "They kind of feed off each other."

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080914&content_id=3472877&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf

Overall I think this guy knows what he's doing.  I haven't before seen the Giants hit consistently like this.  I mean the Giants have really hit this year, although rookie mistakes (bad baserunning *Ishikawa*) and failure to get that one crucial hit has stopped them from scoring more often, I have to believe that Carney Lansford has done his job this year, for sure.  I'd vote him best coach on the team, hands down. 

I like Flannery because he makes me laugh with the way he waves runners in, but I dont know about how good of a coach he is....still wayy too many baserunning mistakes.  Wotus has been steady with his work on the IF defense, I guess I might be taking his work a bit for granted.

Discussion topics:  Who is your favorite coach?  Do you think that Carney deserves our kudos?

Looks very good for this young man...I was looking into putting him on my 12 team mixed 25 man keeper league team and translated all his AA stats into a 163 game MLE (hey, it's possible...). 

654 AB

.287/.312/.452

22HR, 36 2B, 3 3B, 84 R, 107 RBI 

21/81 BB/K, 13% K

Those are pretty solid #'s, almost certainly ROY consideration type #'s.  Just another great addition to look forward to with our SF Giants.

We all know he IS "The Franchise"....but it is almost ridiculous now. The Giants as a team have 48 wins.  12 of these now belong directly (not even mentioning the indirect no-decision wins) to noone else but Mister Timothy "Franchise" Lincecum.  I mean how much value can you put on AT LEAST 25% of the winning percentage of the whole team?  Sure Matty and Durty have pitched well at times and been "Cained", and Timmeh has gotten pretty good support the whole year, but how much more reason do you have to have to sign this kid long term THIS OFFSEASON!?!?  Talk about freakin no-brainers.  Ok, rant off, as you were.