San Francisco Giants

By yoursfgiants With a host of others, including Giants head trainer Dave Groeschner and strength and conditioning coordinator Ben Potenziano, infielder Pablo Sandoval climbed Phoenix's Camelback Mountain on Thursday, 54 minutes up, 38 minutes down, and thought he was done for the day.

By Chris Mike Cameron .236/.321/.420 Bengie Molina .261/.288/.421 Ewww. A two-eighty-eight OBP? No thank you. The Giants are almost certain to offer Molina arbitration — I just hope he declines. Speaking of.. Buster Posey .263/.340/.389 Pablo Sandoval .312/.356/.502

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) Since the Giants were OK with 4 young question marks to start the 2009 season, that gives us a benchmark with which to guess what might happen for 2010. I think that they will consider Rowand, Renteria, Freddie Sanchez, and Pablo Sandoval to be relatively sure things to produce at a certain r...

By yoursfgiants SCOTTSDALE -- Pablo Sandoval strips down to his shorts and steps on the scale inside the gym at the Giants' minor-league complex. It is Wednesday, weigh-in day. "Five pounds!'' he says, his face lighting up. He high-fives Giants conditioning... SCOTTSDALE -- Pablo Sandoval strips down to his...

By yoursfgiants I'm going down to Arizona on Tuesday with some of the video guys from the Giants. We'll be checking in with Pablo Sandoval, who is in the midst of his own personal conditioning camp with team trainers. · How much talent do the Giants give up for him?

By Grant It’s obvious, then, that I should root for the Phillies, right? Kind of. I’d like to think, though, that in an alternate dimension, Pablo Sandoval hit a three-run home run in this year’s All-Star Game, which would have led to the Phillies having home field advantage during this series. Duri...

By Kevin O'Brien Mark Sweeney? Meh. Travis Ishikawa, Ryan Garko and Jesus Guzman. It will be interesting to see what manager Bruce Bochy and Sabean do concerning the position. One popular sentiment seems to be sticking Pablo Sandoval at first and making Juan Uribe the starting third baseman.

By Grant Startling, yes. But I really think the Giants have a bit of a short-term clock ticking. Lincecum and Cain are 40% of a good rotation right now. Pablo Sandoval is a legit middle-of-the-order hitter right now. Those are difficult pieces to come by, but the Giants have them. And if there’s any help f...

By Grant This is more like the Jose Cruz, Jr. thing. Someone does something well all season, and then stinks up a single play to ruin all of the good that preceded it. Tim Lincecum walking seven in three innings. Pablo Sandoval hitting into a double play every time he comes up with runners on base. An error b...

By Chris Anyone who’s watched a Pablo Sandoval at-bat should be able to realize within a few pitches that Sandoval likes to swing the stick. According to Fangraph’s O-Swing% statistic (the number of pitches outside of the strike zone that a batter swings at) Sandoval has swung at 41.8% of the pitche...

By giantsbaseballblog@yahoo.com (Trevor Cole) Q5: Even the casual baseball fan is becoming familiar with "The Big Panda" Pablo Sandoval as the Giants have finally developed a position player of note. What's your take on Sandoval? Do you think he's a guy who will be a .320+ hitter with 30 homers and 100+ RBI a year type player, or do you think...

By E.L.M. Cole Hamels has struggled this year, but fercrissakes, he's Cole Hamels. He's a really good pitcher. His change-up was filthy tonight, and a Giants lineup depleted of Pablo Sandoval (still nursing the sore calf) could do nothing with it. If you need a scapegoat, try Andres Torres, who pinch...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) It's not Larry [Baer]'s fault the Giants don't have a thirdbaseman or a firstbaseman who can hit 40 HR." So the Giants may already have a 40 HR 1B/3B in Pablo Sandoval and therefore, based on what this host said, Sabean has done his job there.

By E.L.M. Giants 4, Dodgers 2 (10 innings): When Pablo Sandoval watched his near home run in the bottom of the 9th, thinking he had a walk-off, but only got to second instead of taking the easy triple  -- a bonehead move that changed the entire complexion of the inning --  I was ready to chalk this one up...

By Andy Bensch The two men in question are Giants manager Bruce Bochy and General Manager Brian Sabean. I'll start with the latter. Even with the Giants' most exciting offensive player Pablo Sandoval tied for third in the National League with a .336 average, the Giants are just as offensively inept as they...

 MD SAN FRANCISCO — Nate Schierholtz hit an inside-the-park three-run homer, Matt Cain pitched a four-hitter for his seventh straight win and the Giants beat the Athletics for a three-game sweep. Pablo Sandoval added a two-run homer and Andres Torres ... MLB roundup: June 17 Daily Camera

By E.L.M. The first reaction is all about 2011 and 2012. Just like the addition of Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa has done nothing to recharge this offense, no one coming up the ladder will make this lineup appreciably better in 2010. Cabrera is a first baseman working his way toward DH.

By Danny Penza As Barry Zito said on his Twitter page, “it’s time for the Giants to capitalize.” And he dominated his personal bogeyman, the Arizona Diamondbacks. 4.  Pablo Sandoval—100 at-bats, .300 average, .340 OBP, .810 OPS, nine runs, seven doubles, two triples, two home runs, nine RBI, two stolen base...

By Ranier Reglos After a sub-par start to the season, the San Francisco Giants are heading into May with a 10-10 record, going 7-3 in their last 10 games. Meanwhile, Aaron Rowand, Edgar Renteria, and Pablo Sandoval continue to lift their own respected batting averages. 

By Andrew Nuschler Randy Winn, Freddie Lewis, and Bengie Molina continue to swing a nice stick although only Randy and Fab Five Freddie emerged from Saint Diego with anything to show for it.  Emanuel Burriss got his first knocks of the year, but Aaron Rowand and Pablo Sandoval rocked a combined 2-19 (Rowand d...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) Infielders (6): 1B Travis Ishikawa, 2B Emmanuel Burriss, SS Edgar Renteria, 3B/C Pablo Sandoval, INF Rich Aurilia, INF Juan Uribe. Outfielders (6): CF Aaron Rowand, RF Randy Winn, LF Fred Lewis, Nate Schierholtz, Andres Torres, Eugenio Velez. Giants Thoughts

By Grant With Bengie Molina around for another year, the Giants are shoehorning Sandoval in at third just to improve the lineup. While I’m fine with the Sandoval-at-third experiment, I’m a little upset that the Giants feel the experiment requires that Sandoval throw away his catcher’s gear. If th...

By Giantfan9(noreply@blogger.com) The Giants again had not enough offense until it was too late. The regulars are still mostly in a slump with Randy Winn (.043), Edgar Renteria (.263), Bengie Molina (.238) and Aaron Rowand going a combined 2 for 10 on the day. Even starters Pablo Sandoval and Kevin Frandsen, who have been hitting...

By Giantfan9(noreply@blogger.com) Bottom line is that Ortiz gave up 5 of the 6 runs the Diamondbacks scored. Other that that....the pitching staff did a great job. The offense was decent....especially after the 4th inning. Eugenio Velez had a solo HR for the Giants first run and Pablo Sandoval had a 2 run HR in the 6th. The team tallied a tot...

By E.L.M. Shoes: The first indication of a monster season. Say, does that guy have on… shoes? Whhhhooooah, nelly. Watch out. Freddie said he’s hitting the weight room a lot and has been joined in the Arizona training center by Pablo Sandoval and others. He’s gained more weight than in any of the past...

By Trevor(noreply@blogger.com) C: Bengie Molina, Pablo Sandoval 1B: Pablo Sandoval, Travis Ishikawa LF: Fred Lewis, Dave Roberts CF: Aaron Rowand, Dave Roberts P: Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jon Sanchez, Noah Lowry, Barry Zito, Brian Wilson, Alex Hinshaw, Sergio Romo, Merkin Valdez, Billy Sadler

By Grant So let’s all look back to August 14th, 2008: The Day of Magic. Jose Castillo was gone. Travis Ishikawa was up. It doesn’t sound like much, but after said Day of Magic: Emmanuel Burriss hit .366/.458/.437. Pablo Sandoval hit .345/.357/.490. Travis Ishikawa hit .274/.337/.432 (not great, but stay with me...