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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The end of the dirty Sanchez in KC…
The Royals yielded to the crushing evidence of Jonathan Sánchez’s ineffectiveness Tuesday afternoon by designating him for assignment prior to their game against the Seattle Mariners at Kauffman Stadium.
The decision came one day after Sánchez’s ERA climbed to 7.76 after allowing seven runs in 1 1/3 innings in a 9-4 loss to the Mariners.
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1. Khrushin it bro Posted: July 17, 2012 at 07:50 PM (#4185375)I think this underestimates how successful he will be for the Cardinals.
Also, I never thought it was possbile for the giants to win on any off-season trades, much less two. I guess its time for the apocolypse. im going to go buy some bottled water.
The Giants specialize in adding washed-up HITTERS who have been hitting .200/.200/.200 for the last two years and then hit .300/.400/.500 in San Francisco. The Cardinals do it with both hitters and pitchers.
They do?
They do?
I suppose one could make the argument for Pat Burrell, but beyond that I am without speech.
I thought he might be thinking of Ellis Burks, who enjoyed a 150 OPS+ three-year stretch in San Francisco, but the only time Burks hit anything close to .200/.200/.200 was in 37 PA as a 39 year old for Boston, years after he left the Giants.
EDIT: Extra deliciousness in relating this back to the topic at hand - whose record for hits in a month for SF did Melky himself tie this May? Who else - Randy Winn.
Winn's not really a great example. He went nuts over a 58-game stretch in 2005 (359/391/680), but other than that he was exactly the same hitter in SF that he'd been in Seattle and in Tampa. He was just a 280/340/450 guy who had a mediocre first half and then got hot for a couple of months after a change of scenery. Happens all of the time.
Is this a real reputation? The Giants got lucky in 2010 with a bunch of weird losers, but when I think of the Giants I think of Sabean's phalanx of the elderly, or an unlimited variety of prospects that cannot hit the ball out of the infield.
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