Time for some quick Giants posting. Brian Sabean has been busy, and let's see how he's done...I'll list the regulars as it looks right now, with their 2009 OPS+
1B Huff 81
2B Sanchez 96
SS Renteria 66
3B Sandoval 142
LF DeRosa 99
CF Rowand 90
RF S'holtz 81
C Molina 86
I'm detecting a pattern here, for all the people who aren't Sandoval. It really isn't necessary to comment further...just look at the team that Sabean has assembled, and think about it for a while.
Friday, January 22, 2010
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I know it's popular to bash Sabean, but this is of course only half the story. The Giants might have the best starting rotation in the league, a rotation that propelled them to the fifth-best record in the NL in 2009.
ReplyDeleteI've rooted for plenty of bad teams in my life, and I can't bring myself to sneer at a guy who builds a 88-74 club.
Fair enough...he certainly deserves credit for developing pitchers, no question about it. It's just that he also makes a very high number of seemingly inexcusable mistakes. I mean, how hard it is to find a first baseman who can hit league average? Or, to put it another way, how hard is it to not come close to a 100 OPS+ for your first basemen not one, not two, but six years in a row?
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