2025 San Francisco Giants Season Thread

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
One week in and we already have a big controversy going on. Some of the Yankees are using a modified bat intended to make them get better contact. MLB says they're legal. They don't look that much different to me. I've seen similar shaped bats before. I guess that's what happens when you hit so many HRs in your opening series.

The giants need to order those bats

ill take aaron judge they can keep the bats. give me the player.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
One week in and we already have a big controversy going on. Some of the Yankees are using a modified bat intended to make them get better contact. MLB says they're legal. They don't look that much different to me. I've seen similar shaped bats before. I guess that's what happens when you hit so many HRs in your opening series.

The giants need to order those bats

ill take aaron judge they can keep the bats. give me the player.

The Giants can order the bats but they can't convince Judge to come to SF.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
One week in and we already have a big controversy going on. Some of the Yankees are using a modified bat intended to make them get better contact. MLB says they're legal. They don't look that much different to me. I've seen similar shaped bats before. I guess that's what happens when you hit so many HRs in your opening series.

The giants need to order those bats

ill take aaron judge they can keep the bats. give me the player.

The Giants can order the bats but they can't convince Judge to come to SF.

Only 2 of the Yankees 9 HR from that game were with those bats. The media is blowing it out of proportion.

i see otto lopez is trending

Wilmer is absolutely on fire. Maybe he really was just hurt all year last year.

Wilmer f**king Flores!!!!

Bivens was a nice story but I think it might be time to say goodbye.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Bivens was a nice story but I think it might be time to say goodbye.

Leaning there, there's gotta be someone better

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Bivens was a nice story but I think it might be time to say goodbye.

I agree, he was somewhat shaky at times even when he was a nice story.
I think it is also time to say goodby to LWJ, he was a nice story going even further back, 3-4 years ago.
God, I wish Eldridge was the real thing to take over 1st base now, keeping Flores as DH. Honestly, when Encarnacion comes back and depending on how he does post injury as a DH, and Flores continues his torrid pace, I won't hesitate to put him at 1st either.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Wilmer is absolutely on fire. Maybe he really was just hurt all year last year.

Of course he was hurt. Wilmer is a pro and he's not the kind of player that would fake an injury. Wilmer and Yaz are both getting good starts after struggling all last season. Adames and Wade are both having a rough start.

As a team they look like they're fundamentally sound. No errors yet. Putting the ball in play and getting runners home instead of stranding them.

Originally posted by Niners99:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
One week in and we already have a big controversy going on. Some of the Yankees are using a modified bat intended to make them get better contact. MLB says they're legal. They don't look that much different to me. I've seen similar shaped bats before. I guess that's what happens when you hit so many HRs in your opening series.

The giants need to order those bats

ill take aaron judge they can keep the bats. give me the player.

The Giants can order the bats but they can't convince Judge to come to SF.

Only 2 of the Yankees 9 HR from that game were with those bats. The media is blowing it out of proportion.

De La Cruz with the Reds used one last night for the first time and he went 4 for 5 with 2 HRs. Maybe they can make a difference for some players. Those bats don't look radically different to me. They resemble the aluminum bats.

Hicks looked great last night and had his velocity back

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:
Hicks looked great last night and had his velocity back

I heard that he threw 3 of the 5 highest velocity pitches of any Giants starter since they began using the current system.. He joined Carlos Rodon and Lincecum as the only starters to throw over 100 MPH. There may have been others in earlier times before they started using the new method for measuring speed.

Originally posted by Rubberneck36:
Hicks looked great last night and had his velocity back

the breaker of Statcast

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Wilmer is absolutely on fire. Maybe he really was just hurt all year last year.

Of course he was hurt. Wilmer is a pro and he's not the kind of player that would fake an injury. Wilmer and Yaz are both getting good starts after struggling all last season. Adames and Wade are both having a rough start.

As a team they look like they're fundamentally sound. No errors yet. Putting the ball in play and getting runners home instead of stranding them.

Absolutely not what I was implying here. He played the first like 60% of the season, and he looked horrible during it. Then he shut the season down and had surgery. I wasnt saying he wasnt hurt, but more so that the injury was the reason he had an abysmal hitting season when he did play. He was probably hurt all year long and tried to gut it out.

If you remember, I was the one that advocated that he needed to play every day and not platoon with Wade. But as the season started progressing and he looked like crap, I backed off that.