SB Nation User Blog: kennv

Giant's Top Ten Prospects, nonGROUPThink Groupthink edition

kennv — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:53:40 -0000

At this point I think it might be cool to see how people's individual top tens are reflected in the community top ten. I was going to post this in a comment in the #11 poll, but didn't want to steal the thunder of the Pucetas-bashing, Ishikawa-pumping comments there.

Here's the Community Top Ten:

1. SP Madison Bumgarner
2. "C" Buster Posey
3. SP Tim Alderson
4. 1B Angel Villalona
5. 2B Nick Noonan
6. 3B Conor Gillaspie
7. SP Henry Sosa
8. OF Rafael Rodriguez
9. OF Roger Kieschnick
10. SP Kevin Pucetas

How does your list differ from that? I'll post mine in a comment.

We also might compare our top ten list this year with top ten from last year. Find your top ten from last year and compare it with yours from this year. Some of us attempted to predict BAs top ten in this thread. By the way BA's top ten was:

1. Angel Villalona
2. Tim Alderson
3. Madison Bumgarner
4. Nate Schierhotz
5. Henry Sosa
6. Nick Noonan
7. Eugenio Velez
8. Wendell Fairley
9. John Bowker
10. Emmanuel Burriss

The Endless (Off-) Season By DOUG GLANVILLE

kennv — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:07:32 -0000

The Endless (Off-) Season By DOUG GLANVILLE

And we thought Baseball fans got bored in the off season.

Timmy Wins Player's Choice for Outstanding Pitcher (Yahoo! video)

kennv — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:16:44 -0000

Timmy Wins Player's Choice for Outstanding Pitcher (Yahoo! video)

Interview with Tim Lincecum on Yahoo! Sports after winning the Players Choice Award for Outstanding Pitcher in the National League. He shows off his intelligence, gives recognition to his change-up as his out pitch, and that mix of humbleness gratitude and arrogance you expect from a top flight professional athlete winning an award. (Cliff Lee took the AL award, and his video displays some Giant swinging and missing.)

Burriss hits his 1st homer, and the Reds broadcast drops it

kennv — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:39:31 -0000

Burriss hits his 1st homer, and the Reds broadcast drops it

Watch and listen as the Reds announcer interviews some teens, and no one calls Burriss's first home run. Good highlight clip dudes.

Sorry if the link doesn't work, but you should be able to find the clip at sfgiants.com pretty easily.

Fransden might play in Sept - Merc News

kennv — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:46:41 -0000

Fransden might play in Sept - Merc News

and he resents being left off Grant's list. He also said this:

'Frandsen has a reputation in baseball circles - fair or not - as a guy with more hustle than talent. But he hates that image and points out his career .322 batting average in the minor leagues.

'"I'm a little tired of people saying, 'Oh, he's just an average major league guy,' " Frandsen said. "How does anyone know yet?"'

Will he be back this year?

Two Articles from this Weeks Onion - The Girlfriend

kennv — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:03:22 -0000

Two Articles from this Weeks Onion - The Girlfriend

And Jaime Moyer's Change-up

Ted Robinson - Bonds should have left earlier

kennv — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:45:06 -0000

Ted Robinson - Bonds should have left earlier

Did anyone catch this first time around. Ted Robinson blogs (July 2nd) on the Giants. And I almost agree with him. I think Bonds should still be around - but that the rest of the old vets shouldn't fer sure.

Lincecum to Pitch Tuesday versus the Mets

kennv — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:22:45 -0000

Lincecum to Pitch Tuesday versus the Mets

Andrew Baggarly blogs that Bochy has shifted Tim up a day. Now Tim, Jon, Barry in NYC.

Timpner and Schierholtz

kennv — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:26:47 -0000

So the Giants send Roberts to the DL and call up... Clay Timpner. Not nasty Nate? Warum?

Since, I just looked at the stats on baseballreference.com here some are:

Timpner career minors: .283/328/379/707. Turns 25 in May, bats/throws left.
After 60 Games in Fresno in 06, in 07 he pulled a: .301/363/395/758.
After some good steals/cs numbers in SJ, its been pretty dismal in AAA.

Schierholtz career minors: .306/352/505/857. 24 since February. Bats left, Throws right.
First year in Fresno (2007): 333/365/560/925.

So Nate is off to a slow start I guess. And Clay can play CF. So can Davis. So can a healed Winn. Oh and that bruised ribs guy. And wasn't Velez getting CF time last year. I'm pretty sure Aurilia can play a good CF. Is this just SF using its 40 man roster to reward a AAA that got skipped over in all the Lewis/Davis madness last year? His turn for a cup of coffee? Another display of the Giant's organizations depth of mediocrity in the OF? Hey lookie other teams, you can have a Taschner-model loogie and a [insert name here] AAAA OF for your AA blocked 3rd base prospect.

and if they're hurt, why not DL the lot of the old OF (Roberts AND Winn (ankles right?) AND Aaron "Chest-Pains" Rowand). Lewis, Davis, Schierholtz, Backups Ort, and Velez.ner

Poll

Why Timpner?

Center Fielder, say no more

22 votes

Speed and Defense

9 votes

Getting his due (Cup of Coffee reward)

15 votes

Nate sucks. Look at his AVG this year. D'uh.

8 votes

54 votes | Poll has closed

Junk mail: Complex - A marc ecko production

kennv — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:25:06 -0000

Did anyone else get an advertisement posing as a men's magazine in the mail this past week? Somehow, I got an issue of Complex mailed to me. Now I'm on some damn mailing list. And I have an issue with it. The magazine's spine's motto: BUY. COLLECT. OBSESS.

It says its a Marc Ecko Production. Now the only way I can think of that I got onto a ME mailing list is the 756-HR Ball online poll. But I don't remember, did you have to put in an address to vote? Was I lax enough to put in my actual address?

I remember ME saying the poll was going to be a great publicity. Was this silly magazine part of his plan?