This blog took a tumble last year after I decided to move away from the bay area and up to the Great Northwest. But I’m back, and it’s almost spring. We are getting to the point of the year where I get antsy and start scouring the interwebs for tid-bits like “Andres Torres drank 2 mountain dews in the clubhouse and then began to samba with a very disturbed and confused Buster Posey.” I also start to expect daily reports on the condition of Timmy’s delivery and how Bumgardner swears he didn’t blow his nose all off-season in preparation for his snot rockets. Alas these are not the reports of early spring.
There are a number of articles about how excited Torres is to be back in the clubhouse. I don’t know who is more excited, me or Torres. I’m going to go with Torres just because of sheer amounts of energy spent on sharing just how excited he is. I feel like he’s already reached out to me twice personally and I’ve never met the man. I call him a “man” because “god of the awkward handshake and throwing cinderblocks” is too cumbersome.
The offseason for the G-men has been relatively quiet, which is nice for defending champs. No extra stress or worries about roster changes, no cares about position battles. It seems like every move since 2010 has been about getting the band back together. The process will be complete when Jonathan Sanchez gets waived in May for throwing 15 straight wild pitches and we sign him to a minor league deal. This is assuming that Brian Wilson also returns. But that belongs in another thread.
Really my only worries about this season are that vague hazy memories of what happened the last time we won the World Series and thought it prudent to bring everyone back. But there was a difference between that band and this one. Renteria left because of his 9 million dollar option wasn’t picked up, Uribe left for a ridiculous overpay by the Dodgers, and Aubrey Huff was thanked for his work and retired with dignity. Wait, we did WHAT? We payed him 22 million dollars after that fluke season? Huh, funny how that slipped my mind. In all seriousness it is funny now to look back at the 2011 line-up for giggles, I mean good god that was awful. I guess bookending that season with World Series victories was the only way to make it go away. But really, will it ever really go away? I still wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats of seeing Chris Stewart batting clean-up. AAAAAGH! It can also be a fun game to create line-ups from the past 3 years and see the how much awfulness/awesomeness you can come up with. This is an example of a potential line-up
3b - Miguel Tejada
2b - Bill Hall
1b - Aubrey Huff (non 2010 version)
c - Chris Stewart
lf - Mark DeRosa
rf - Jose Guillen
cf - Aaron Rowand
ss - Ryan Theriot
p- Todd Wellermeyer
Great googily-moogily that is terrible. While we are at it, let make the “only Giants fans can feel kinda warm and fuzzy about the players on this list and kinda queasy about the actual line-up” line-up:
cf- Andres Torres
2b- Freddie Sanchez
1b - Travis Ishikawa
c -Bengie Molina
lf -Pat Burrell
3b - Juan Uribe
rf -Nate Schierholtz
ss- Edgar Renteria
p- Barry Zito (post 2012 NLCS)
And now for the big boppers:
Hunter Pence
Carlos Beltran
Melky Cabrerra
Buster Posey
Pablo Sandoval
Brandon Belt
Marco Scutaro
and somebody to play shortstop.... just cause we need one
Ok, so that last one isn’t a world beater, but as the last few years have proved you can’t win baseball games on a piece of paper. So suck it Dodgers!
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