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Jul 1 10 11:04 AM
geezer123 wrote:Benji gave his all and that was pretty good for the Giants. Ray seems like just another arm in the pen. ...Molina (starting catcher) for a mediocre middle reliever.
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KalBearz wrote:Olney writes that rival general managers consider Brian Sabean the most difficult GM to trade with simply because they can't get him on the phone. According to Olney, many GMs contact assistant Bobby Evans rather than Sabean, since the Giants GM doesn't return calls. -mlbtr
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Here are some bullet points from GM Brian Sabean's conference call after he traded Bengie Molina to Texas for reliever Chris Ray and RH pitcher Michael Main, who will be assigned to Double-A Richmond. --Ray will join the Giants and have a chance to "audition" for a late-relief job. The team might carry 13 pitchers through this 11-game road trip because of the demands on the bullpen. -- I asked Sabean what Molina has meant to the organization, and why Sabean thinks his hitting backslid. His answer: "First and foremost, he saved us in so many ways, whether it's his abilities behind the plate and the young pitching staff he molded, or more so when we got caught short in the middle of the lineup and he was productive. "This year, I can't really put a finger on why he's not in a better way offensively. I don't know if it was the effects of the offseason and free agency that went sour. He's certainly capable of bouncing back. The other thing is he's going to a better lineup. I think he has a chance to break out of this rut that he's been in. -- Travis Ishikawa and Nate Schierholtz might get more playing time, including Schierholtz tonight, just to get more left-handed bats in the lineup against some of these tough right-handers. Posey is having his troubles against right-handers, too, but he and Pablo Sandoval need to play so they can develop. "To answer the overall question," Sabean said, "Buster is going to be catching more than he's going to be playing first base. That's obvious. . . . Make no mistake. He's in there to get the playing time as much as possible. -- Sabean addressed an ESPN poll of general managers criticizing him as the hardest GM to reach, a GM who won't return phone calls. He said the story was unfair because reporter Buster Olney sought input from 12 GMs and only seven responded. Sabean also suggested there are some teams with whom the Giants have no match, some general managers who like to "throw things on the wall to see what sticks," and that if he doesn't return a call, his assistant Bobby Evans does. "I think there are well over 20 GMs we are dealing with first-hand," he said. We do return phone calls. I return phone calls."
Here are some bullet points from GM Brian Sabean's conference call after he traded Bengie Molina to Texas for reliever Chris Ray and RH pitcher Michael Main, who will be assigned to Double-A Richmond.
--Ray will join the Giants and have a chance to "audition" for a late-relief job. The team might carry 13 pitchers through this 11-game road trip because of the demands on the bullpen.
-- I asked Sabean what Molina has meant to the organization, and why Sabean thinks his hitting backslid. His answer:
"First and foremost, he saved us in so many ways, whether it's his abilities behind the plate and the young pitching staff he molded, or more so when we got caught short in the middle of the lineup and he was productive.
"This year, I can't really put a finger on why he's not in a better way offensively. I don't know if it was the effects of the offseason and free agency that went sour. He's certainly capable of bouncing back. The other thing is he's going to a better lineup. I think he has a chance to break out of this rut that he's been in.
-- Travis Ishikawa and Nate Schierholtz might get more playing time, including Schierholtz tonight, just to get more left-handed bats in the lineup against some of these tough right-handers. Posey is having his troubles against right-handers, too, but he and Pablo Sandoval need to play so they can develop.
"To answer the overall question," Sabean said, "Buster is going to be catching more than he's going to be playing first base. That's obvious. . . . Make no mistake. He's in there to get the playing time as much as possible.
-- Sabean addressed an ESPN poll of general managers criticizing him as the hardest GM to reach, a GM who won't return phone calls. He said the story was unfair because reporter Buster Olney sought input from 12 GMs and only seven responded. Sabean also suggested there are some teams with whom the Giants have no match, some general managers who like to "throw things on the wall to see what sticks," and that if he doesn't return a call, his assistant Bobby Evans does.
"I think there are well over 20 GMs we are dealing with first-hand," he said. We do return phone calls. I return phone calls."
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