The Giants’ brass met several times this week in preparation of the winter meetings, which begin Monday in Indianapolis, and the feeling was Posey’s not quite ready to play everyday in the big leagues, meaning the Giants will need a buffer, someone to catch regularly until Posey emerges for good.
General manager Brian Sabean said the front office had a “raging debate” over whether Posey would be the No. 1 catcher, adding, “We came to the overall conclusion it would be a tall order to ask him to do that. He just hasn’t played a lot.”
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Sabean offered contracts to Brad Penny (one year) and Juan Uribe (one year with an option) but received no positive feedback. “Talks have really gone nowhere,” the GM said. “I don’t know if we’ll revisit or not. We moved on to other ideas.”
As for Pablo Sandoval, who finished seventh in the MVP voting, the brass sees his 2010 home at third base, not first base. With Freddy Sanchez staying at second, that would seem to rule out any talk a trade for Dan Uggla or a free-agent third baseman such as Adrian Beltre.
It also would mean the Giants are focusing on finding a new first baseman. Nick Johnson, Mark DeRosa and Adam LaRoche are among the free-agent options.
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Free-agent catcher Yorvit Torrealba has been linked to the Giants, but he’d be ruled out if only because he, like Molina, is pursuing a multiyear deal. The Giants aren’t high on old-timers Ivan Rodriguez, Brad Ausmus and Jason Kendall, all past their prime.
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That sounds like GM speak for "if we leave him in the minors for a few months, we can delay his service clock another year".
If Sabean thought that way, he wouldn't have brought Posey up to sit on the bench last September. Nor would they be paying Lincecum a gagillion dollars as a super two. Unless they suddenly learned their lesson, but I doubt it.
I don't think it counts as service time once the roster expands to 40-man.
I believe that is correct.
It is true that he's never played a ton of games at catcher, so however convenient Super 2 looks here, in this case it matches best practices I think.
The REALLY interesting play would be Sandoval - a decent catcher - behind the plate for the first 2 months. You don't worry about wearing him down in September, because he almost never catches past Memorial Day. Meanwhile you have an Ishikawa instead of a Whiteside offensively, or you choose the matchups.
The Sandoval-Posey intersection is unique, and a chance to be creative.
http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20040830&content_id=842416&vkey=news_mlb&fext;=.jsp&c_id=null
I really want to know what GM said the 30 days don't really matter.
*Olivo hit 23 home runs in 2009 after averaging 16/year for the 3 previous full seasons. Otherwise, his averages were normal for him, last season.
Please let this happen.
No one cares about your fake baseball team!
That's not true! I care!
Hey, don't laugh. I could cleanly pick every pitch, even the nastiest slider in the dirt ... once it stopped rolling after bouncing to the backstop.
my "fake" baseball team had BMolina and Sandoval as my catchers last year, and Posey as one of my top farmhands.
But my observation didn't relate to that.
I think.
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