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Unknown length - 2008-08-27 Sabean talks to Amy G. about the state of the Giants.

By rss@youtube.com (marito87) A Re-anactment of GM Brian Sabean Talking With An Angry Giants Fan During A Lil Cocktail Time... Author: marito87 Keywords: San Francisco Giants Brian Sabean Added: December 1, 2007

By Grant If you missed the State of the Sabean, here you go. Some of the key points: Oh. All of these players are old and declining, a marginal upgrade with little upside, or they’re far too expensive for a team trying to pay Barry Zito and Aaron Rowand. Maybe there’s another way.

By E.L.M. I'm glad a former daily beat writer now has the job, because the job grants him access that few others have. For example, he interviewed Sabean for yesterday's article, in which Sabean made it clear Bengie Molina probably won't return unless he accepts a likely arbitration offer. He also q...

By Grant We are excited to promote someone of Hensley's baseball background to the big league club," Sabean said. "He will be a great asset to the team as we look to improve our run scoring production with both our existing major league hitters as well as the young talent we have coming up from our mino...

By Grant The San Francisco Giants have re-signed infielder Freddy Sanchez to a two-year contract extension, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced today. Sanchez, a three-time National League All-Star (2006-07, 2009) and former NL batting champion in 2006 was...

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 Sabean: I think that the problem is that we aren’t making productive outs. Bochy: Yeah. Maybe. Sabean: Maybe I’ll ask Scooter in the quantative analysis department to help. Sabean: Thanks. What about sacrifice bunts? Sabean: Okay, thanks.

By giantsbaseballblog@yahoo.com (Trevor Cole) It's no secret that Sabean has made big time mistakes over the past couple of years through free-agency. He signed Aaron Rowand and Barry Zito to multi-year deals that will ultimately pay the two under-achievers nearly 200 million dollars before their time in San Francisco is up. Then capp...

By Paulie(p_rice41@hotmail.com) Anyone who thought that Brain Sabean and/or Bruce Bochy would be axed after the Giants won 88 games this year is insane. You don't fire the guys who are supposedly behind such a drastic improvement, even if the Plexiglass Principle and other clear reasons for probable regression next seas...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) Because of the current bad batch of free agent hitters (i.e. no impact middle-lineup hitters), I think the Giants will do like last off-season and try to improve the pitching. So I think they will try to re-sign Penny for a year and, with the bad economy plus his poor year overall, he could agree...

By Chris Brian Sabean says stuff: Here’s a list of artistic statistics for the Giants this past year: OBP – .309 (last in the majors) BB% – 6.7 (last in the majors) wOBA – .305 (last in the majors) Yes, the Giants won 88 games last year. Who wasn’t proud of that? I can’t wait for Jermaine Dye to be on this team.

By Grant For the non-regular ghouls who are stopping by to see how Giants fans are reacting to the news that Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean have new contracts, here’s a quick primer: Here’s where the Giants have ranked for the past five years in runs scored compared to the rest of Major League Baseball...

By E.L.M. By now you've all heard the Giants have re-signed Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean to two-year contracts with a club option for 2012. By now you've all heard the screams of the Lunatic Fringe throwing themselves under the nearest T-Third...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that the Giants will get someone to make a statement for next season. Sabean intimated that something has to be done, and free agency is the easiest route. So, really, there are no clearly good options in free agency for the Giants situation.

By Grant Sabean: But he’s only 23. Do you expect me to believe that you drafted him, let him play at different minor league levels, properly evaluated his major league readiness, and then didn’t bury him behind a procession of middling veterans?

By Grant Right about now, there’s a news conference going on. Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean are taking questions about the 2009 season, and the rumor is that they’ll also be talking about the new extensions they received. Going into the season, most of the folks around here had the Giants at .500 or belo...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) As most Giants fans know, the news have come out, first from John Shea of the Chronicle, then confirmed by Andy Baggarly at his great Extra Baggs blog. As Andy noted, "Contract length and other terms are being negotiated presently," and "it's expected he'll [Sabean] sign a multiyear contr...

By Grant Sabean can't be so obstinate, stubborn, and out of touch that he doesn't know why he offense was so bad for the last couple of years. For the last five seasons, the Giants have had an offense that scored fewer runs than the average NL team. For four of those seasons, the Giants were in the bottom t...

By E.L.M. I'm listening to the radio broadcast right now, and Tony Bennett is singing his final "I Left My Heart" of the season after Lincecum's 15th win, all of which soothes my sour stomach a little. Unlike some of you, I think the Giants can continue to improve with S & B at the helm. It's within the...

By E.L.M. It has begun. Sabean, Bochy. Bochy, Sabean. Will they, won't they? The talk will continue all week and into next, perhaps, as long as it takes Bill Neukom to decide the fates of Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean. I have made up my mind on Bochy; I'll get there in a minute.

By Grant How much do you think Bengie Molina contributes to the Giants' offense? Don't think about his position, how he is in the clubhouse, or how he handles a pitching staff. Just focus on what you think he contributes to the team's efforts to score runs. The litmus test plays for the team. How lucky we...

By E.L.M. As I mentioned earlier this week, I will stay disciplined and wait til the Giants' season ends before passing final judgment on Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy, but that won't keep me from announcing my rooting interests in the playoffs. In the National, I can imagine worse than the Phils repe...

By Grant Not much time for a ton of writing today, so I'll just ask your help for possible posts down the road. I'm trying to make a list of examples of the Giants ignoring minor league performance in their hitter evaluation process in the Brian Sabean era.

By Andrew Baggarly It was the work by six relievers after Jonathan Sanchez allowed a tying home run to Rafael Furcal in the fifth inning. – The Rockies got Jason Giambi for their bench. The Dodgers got Jim Thome. That’s 971 home runs sitting there. The Giants have Ryan Garko, I guess.

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) Why are the Giants winning? Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez, Wilson, Romo, Valdez, heck, Affeldt, Miller, Medders, Johnson. In other words, the pitching staff. Who put that together? Sabean. That's why I hope Sabean is extended for another two years.

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 giantsbaseballblog@yahoo.com (Trevor Cole) If Brian Sabean is going to make a move to help this team for the stretch drive he still could get something done after the trade deadline, but that would involve waivers and is a much more complicated process which doesn't always work out. Therefore, if the Giants are going to add another bat...

By E.L.M. So that means, come August, the Giants will either have to trade second-tier non-40–man guys (Thomas Neal, Scott Barnes, Kevin Pucetas) or major league veterans whose contracts no one wants. That’s not the recipe for bringing back an impact bat, and Sabean probably knows it.

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...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) In any case, I think Sabean has already earned the chance to get an extension to guide the Giants over the next two years. The pitching staff is nearly rebuilt, almost to perfection, and the starting lineup is starting to shape up pretty nicely, and should be ready within 1-2 seasons. The team...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) A number of blogs jumped on the I-Rod rumor the other day, and railed on the Giants and Sabean again.  This reminded me of other such reactions every time a rumor comes out this off-season.  For example, a few months ago, there were some that said that the Giants are uncomfortable with Sandova...

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) One of the big debate among fans has been about how good Sanchez is and whether Sabean knows what he has in the lefty. There is good news for Sanchez fans like me from Hank Schulman, from his The Splash blog. Vote of Confidence for Sabean and Bochy Giants Thoughts

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) I took the ZIP projections for the Giants, that's available off of Dan Szymborski's website, Baseball Think Factory, and calculated what the projected lineup and pitching staff would do based on his projections. He's actually quite complementary of the Giants and Sabean (for once).

By Administrator In 2008, the 24-year-old righty with the 97-mph fastball rewarded Sabean with a monster season in which he went 18-5, 2.62, with a major league-best 265 strikeouts for his fourth-place club (a team that finished 72-90). The Giants (72-90) went 22-12 when Lincecum pitched and 50-78 when he...

By obsessivegiantscompulsive(noreply@blogger.com) C: Posey, Sandoval, Adam Witter, Hector Sanchez 1B: Sandoval, Villalona, Ishikawa, Bowker, Neal, Hector Sanchez 2B: Frandsen, Velez, Noonan, Downs SP: Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez, Bumgarner, Alderson, Snyder, Henry Sosa, Waldis Joaquin, plus Zito

By noreply@blogger.com (obsessivegiantscompulsive) But that wasn't true in the Giants case. Few in the media (OK, none) noticed that the Giants totally rebuilt their pitching staff over the past few years. They didn't notice (or still haven't noticed) until this season when it is practically slapping you in the face with their youth. As I noted...

By Trevor The "Armondo Benitez to the Florida Marlins" rumor started up again earlier ... The Giants 5th rotation spot is still up in the air. Sabean is still ... I also don't think Ortiz is %100 done and he'd probably thrive in San Francisco. ...

By Trevor The Giants have added a 4th (and counting) former Padre to their 2007 roster ... I could still see Ortiz signing in San Francisco, but I think Sabean wants to ... that Sabean's answer to the loss of Jason Schmidt will be Jeff Suppan. ...

By Trevor Sometime before the end of the weekend, the Giants are expected to announce ... The signing of Roberts will move Randy Winn to right field, ... Sabean still wants to keep his options open before really facing the Barry Bonds question. ...