Game Thread: 8.28 Hebrew @ Sanchy

[tzill]

30 minutes to first pitch and still no lineup?

weird.

 

[calsnowskier]

30 minutes to first pitch and still no lineup?

weird.

They mentioned on KNBR that the entire OF is basically walking wounded right now and none are game-worthy. I would guess they are waiting on the med staff to get final word on who is most available.

 

[tzill]

1. A Slater (R) CF
2. W Flores (R) DH
3. L Wade Jr. (L) LF
4. E Longoria (R) 3B
5. J Davis (R) 1B
6. B Crawford (L) SS
7. T Estrada (R) 2B
8. A Wynns (R) C
9. M Yastrzemski (L) RF

Jakob Junis
RHP
4-3, 3.58 ERA, 69 SO

 

[tzill]

For those asking why no other options are here for OF: no one is hurt enough for an IL stint. It’s a day game after a night game in the Midwest and no one could get here. And Bryce Johnson isn’t eligible unless someone goes on the IL and he’s gone anyway after Gonzalez came back.

 

[tzill]

This one is going south early. Oh well, at least we will see that we can't rely on Junis.

 

[tzill]

Well, Junis survived the first, but a lot of pitches. Would love to see him go five.

 

[calsnowskier]

Well, Junis survived the first, but a lot of pitches. Would love to see him go five.

Through 2…

Sanchez 45 pitches (+15)
Junis 33 pitches (+3)

Assuming 80ish pitches, he is on pace to got 5+ IP today.

 

[LHG]

They mentioned on KNBR that the entire OF is basically walking wounded right now and none are game-worthy. I would guess they are waiting on the med staff to get final word on who is most available.

For those asking why no other options are here for OF: no one is hurt enough for an IL stint. It’s a day game after a night game in the Midwest and no one could get here. And Bryce Johnson isn’t eligible unless someone goes on the IL and he’s gone anyway after Gonzalez came back.

When you've got that many "lightly wounded" outfielders, someone needs to go on the IL (if not two), assuming the AAA outfield isn't looking the same way. Its not like any of the guys in the SF outfield are producing anyway. Actually play someone else to see if they can do better.

 

[LHG]

Well, Junis survived the first, but a lot of pitches. Would love to see him go five.

He got close.

 

[LHG]

Just realized the last names for the Twins' starting battery were the same. Somewhere, TitoMac was telling everyone the Giants were doomed due to all that EZ power against them.

 

[tzill]

I'm out on Junis. He's not going to be a piece next year...except as depth in Sac.

He's phuking AWFUL.

 

[jeep99tj]

These last 36 games could be ugly.

 

[tzill]

This is pretty much an open audition for Scott Alexander for next season. He should be under team control through next season.

 

[calsnowskier]

This is pretty much an open audition for Scott Alexander for next season. He should be under team control through next season.

COTs hasn’t added him to the Giants payroll lists yet, but he is in his age 32 season with 5+ YEARS MLB service time. I think that means he will be a FA.

He doesn’t strike me as much of a needle mover, so it isn’t a huge deal either way, but if he does do well, the fact we gave him a shot should give us a leg up on retaining him if w ere interested.

 

[LHG]

Positives from this game:
Crawford with a 3 hit game and Wynns with a 2 hit game (including a double)
Alexander has a nice season debut with the Giants and both Rogers and Garcia had little trouble with their 1 inning stints.