San Francisco Giants: Weekly Notes

-A miserable start; Zito got hammered on opening day. His line—5 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, and 1 K, and only two swinging strikes. The tragic thing is, he needed all the luck in the world to get that line. I hope it’s just his head and not his arm that’s shot.

-The First Giants extra base hit did not occur until the third game of the year—a double by Jose Castillo, a guy they did not sign until very recently.

-Let the Jose Castillo era begin.

-Let the Eugenio Velez era begin, first seven plate appearances—3 singles, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB, no K’s, pretty good for a Giant.

-City of Brotherly Love: good luck with Pedro Feliz. Don’t boo until your lungs bleed—it hurts.

-Pedro Feliz, first seven plate appearances—1 single (it did break up a no-hitter, but he ran into a double play), 2 K’s, 7 outs made.

-Pedro Feliz’s career OBP—.288, absolutely, positively miserable.

-Bruce Bochy: some onions.

-Putting Tim Lincecum in the fourth frame was one thing, but then putting him back in after an hour-plus rain delay—yikes!

-It worked.

-I listened to the game on the radio and it was one of the most harrowing 4 inning performances I’ve encountered in which the pitcher gave up only one run.

-After the first series with the Dodgers; Giants team OBP: .292; team SLG: .242.

-Milwaukee came out guns blazing and the Giants can only cower.

-If the Giants don’t pitch, they lose.

-The Giants are easily looking down the barrel of 100 losses, with perhaps the best pitching staff a one hundred loss team has ever had.

-Cain, Lincecum, Valdez,Threets, Wilson, and Taschner have been lights out.

-Trade Bait?

-The guys the Giants have tried to pump—Fred Lewis, Rajai Davis, and Daniel Ortmeier—as starters have one lousy hit between them.

-The kid who hadn’t seen the diamond above Triple A—Brian Bocock—has three.

-Pedro Feliz bounced back. Sort of, not really.

-The best Giants hitters have been Aaron Rowand and Jose Castillo—make of that what you will.

-Tim Lincecum though, is batting 1.000.

-There is more, but it is all just as depressing.