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Ishikawa to Fresno, Sandoval to CT

cakes — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:35:38 -0000

From the Chron:

The Giants have promoted some notable minor-leaguers. First baseman Travis Ishikawa, who had 24 at-bats in the majors two years ago, is going to Triple-A Fresno after hitting .291 with eight homers and 48 RBIs at Double-A Connecticut. Catcher and first baseman Pablo Sandoval, 21, will move from Class A San Jose to Connecticut after dominating the California League with a .359 average, 12 homers and 58 RBIs.

Who knew? He was a Jew!

cakes — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:54:01 -0000

From the Chron:

Horwitz is the first Jewish player on the Giants since the 1995-96 tenure of pitcher Jose Bautista.

Jose freakin' Bautista?!? The guy whose last name means "Baptist"? Well, here's an ESPN article for you:

Jose Bautista, a baseball journeyman whose mother is Israeli and father Dominican, honored his faith. Bautista, who pitched for five teams in a ten-year career that ended in 1997, told the Village Voice, "My family and I go to synagogue when we can and we pray every Friday. We fast on Yom Kippur and not only do I not pitch, I don't even go to the ball game."

Now you know!

Lowry may be done for the year

cakes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:38:38 -0000

San Francisco Giants left-hander Noah Lowry had another MRI exam on his surgically repaired throwing forearm and won't be pitching any time soon -- maybe not at all this season.

"That's questionable," manager Bruce Bochy said Wednesday. "We don't know if he will be back on the mound this year. It's fair to say we're getting to that point that it's a fair question."

Lowry was examined Tuesday by Dr. Robert Gamburd, the same physician who did some of the pitcher's preliminary tests back in spring training. The 27-year-old Lowry was shut down April 30 for what the team called a significant amount of time, still experiencing tingling in his left forearm that forced him to undergo surgery to repair his nerves in March.

Rest of the story: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3426268

Threets DFA'd

cakes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:10:55 -0000

Henry Schulman writes in SFGate's Splash blog:

The Giants designated lefty Erick Threets for assignment, a move that would not have happened without Alex Hinshaw's emergence. I haven't talked to the brass about Threets today, but I know they have tried to trade him. If they can't, I'm guessing they hope he clears waivers and will go down to Fresno again.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=22&entry_id=26969

Stupid website question

cakes — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:18:37 -0000

This is probably going to take exactly one comment to answer, but here goes: what's the easiest way on McC to see when the next Giants game is? I seem to remember there used to be a thing on the right side toward the bottom of the page that had the pitching matchup and stuff, but I can't find it any more. "Schedule" just shows the entire year's schedule. What am I missing?

Who should get sent down when Omar is activated?

cakes — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:15:27 -0000

The papers are reporting that Omar will be activated today. There's a chance the Durham goes on the DL, but if not, either Burriss or Bocock will get sent down. Which one should it be?

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Long profile of Burriss in the Wash Post

cakes — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:35:48 -0000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050302303.html

Nice to see the hometown paper rooting for one of its own. It's a shame that DC hasn't put out more ballplayers. It's a bigger baseball town than people think. I went to Walter Johnson High School in the MD suburbs, which is the first high school in America named after a baseball player.

I also wish the Giants had sportswriters like Dave Shenin.

Trade brewing?

cakes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:14:37 -0000

From the AP recap of Tuesday's game

The Giants are waiting until Wednesday to activate RHP Vinnie Chulk (strained throwing shoulder) from the disabled list, perhaps trying to make a trade before bringing him back.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=280415126

Anyone up for predicting the move?

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EDIT: Looks like the AP stringer was wrong, and Yabu got sent down. The AP story has been revised to say:

The Giants are waiting until Wednesday to activate RHP Vinnie Chulk (strained throwing shoulder) from the disabled list, but cleared roster room by optioning RHP Keiichi Yabu to Triple-A Fresno after the game a day after his first victory in nearly three years.

Roberts will be out for a good part of the season

cakes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:52 -0000

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/SPSJ102JH1.DTL

"We've tried all the drastic measures and I'm still at square one right now," said Roberts, who was told that this surgery would be more extensive than a typical arthroscopy. That means he would miss more than the normal four to six weeks.

Manager Bruce Bochy said Fred Lewis will get most of the starts in left field, but Rajai Davis and Daniel Ortmeier will play there, too.

Winn, Yabu battling freak injuries

cakes — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:25:35 -0000

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3332526

Giants reliever Keiichi Yabu was hit across the eyes by an elastic band, right fielder Randy Winn bruised his right ankle when he hit himself with a bat and center fielder Aaron Rowand's ribs were still sore, manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday before San Francisco played the Milwaukee Brewers.

Yabu, wearing sunglasses in the clubhouse, hurt himself on Saturday when he was doing arm exercises at his locker.

Anyone find it ironic that "gamer" Aaron Rowand got hurt diving in the outfield? Is this our comeuppance?