San Francisco Giants Chat Room

Nothing like arbitration news! to spice up the monotony of winter baseball. The Giants have recently made their decisions on who’s getting arbitration and who isn’t, from SFGiants.com:
The Giants announced late Saturday night that they offered salary arbitration to third baseman Pedro Feliz, although this hardly assured that the free agent would return to the […]

The hosting company that hosts Bay City Ball is undergoing some server maintenance late tonight. The scheduled outage is for over 8 hours, but you never know with these sort of things. Hopefully the site will be back up by mid-to-late Saturday and functioning fine.
So, don’t be alarmed if you can’t reach the site for […]

The Giants last place finish in 2007 not only secured their 5th overall pick in the amateur draft in June but also for the Rule 5 Draft this December. The Rule 5 Draft is a little more popular in years past because some teams have found hidden gems in the draft. Probably the most well […]

Getting back to the baseball world after a very-nice Thanksgiving has made me a little sluggish. No, it’s not just all that turkey I ate. The holiday break was fantastic and refreshing but there just isn’t much baseball news happening lately and the current dialog among Giants’ fans seems to hinge around the same conversations, […]

The 2008 bullpen takes form a little more with the 1-year deal to bring back Tyler Walker. Walker, who served as the Giants closer in 2005 after Armando Benitez went down with an injury, is back for ‘08 on a 1-year $750K deal. Walker was traded to the Devil Rays in 2006 but he went […]

Not much to say, other than Barry Bonds has been indicted today on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. I might write more on it later but to be honest, I’ve been watching way too much ESPN today and I already feel burnt out on the topic. Regardless of my opinion of Barry, I […]

A quick blurb from GM Brian Sabean in a recent MLB.com article detailing the Omar Vizquel signing:
“Third base is what we’re presently going to work on,” Sabean said. “I think that definitely has to be the first thing we try to address.”
Sabean said that Feliz, who has averaged 21 home runs and 84 RBIs […]

Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports has announced that the Giants and Omar Vizquel are close to signing a 1 year $5.5M dollar deal. Under the rumored new deal, Omar would earn about $1.5M more from his 2007 salary after posting the worst OPS in the National League in ‘07 (when sorting by 450 plate appearances, […]

Welcome to the new look for Bay City Ball, this is essentially the third design that I’ve used for the website. I decided to switch over to a different design because the old design was starting to feel a little old and stale. I also like the way this design presents the content and I […]

Baseball America has a list up of all the available minor league free agents. A minor league free agent is able to sign with any team he likes.
The Giants have a total of 20 minor league free agents. Here’s what the list looks like:
San Francisco Giants (20)
Righthanders: Jesse Foppert, Dan Giese, Carlos Hines, Sun Woo […]

Carney, meet the Giants. The Giants, this is Careny.
The Giants have hired Carney Lansford as the new hitting instructor, effectively replacing Joe Lefebvre. Lansford was the 1981 batting champ in the AL when he hit (.336/.389/.439). He also had a cool mustache. And he hit more career home runs than Lefebvre (151 vs 31). He’s […]

Sometimes baseball can really be a strange game. Emphasis on strange. Kevin Mitchell once strained a muscle while vomiting. He also broke a tooth while eating a chocolate donut. Heck, you could probably fill an entire book about general Kevin Mitchell weirdness. Or, the time ex-Giant masher Glen Allen Hill fell through a glass table […]

Hat tip to Grant at McCovey Chronicles for first making me aware of the Giants interest in Kosuke Fukudome. Kosuke is a corner OF, who has a reputation of being a defensively sound player. He has played 9 seasons in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons and has done quite well. Over his 9 seasons, he […]

The theory goes something like this…First base is one of the easiest positions that a major league team can fill, and fill with close to league average production. Defensively, anyone can play first because it’s the least demanding defensive position on the diamond. The throws are short and the area you have to cover is […]

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Watching October baseball when your favorite team is already out of the race (or in the Giants case, sometime around mid-May) can be hard. The one team I was rooting for, the Indians, got bounced in a Game 7 Fenway defeat last night. The Indians jumped […]

First things first, I’ve installed some new spam-blocker software on the site. I’ve been getting bombarded with more and more spam lately and hopefully this should lighten the load. All user accounts should be unaffected but there is a chance new users might get unfairly “tagged” as spam. I seriously doubt that this will happen […]

The Giants have decided to make some changes on their coach staff. Hitting coach Joe Lefebvre and first base / hitting coach Willie Upshaw will not return to their coaching roles in 2008. Dave Righetti, Mark Gardner, Ron Wotus, Bill Hayes, and Tim Flannery will all return next year. Lefebvre became the hitting coach in […]

In 2007 Matt Cain was one of the sadder stories on the Giants. Day in and day out he would take the mound, pitch a great game, and almost always lose in a heart-breaking fashion. Bullpen melt downs and putrid offensive production became the staples that would ruin a great looking start by Cain. Just […]

Slow news day for the Giants, it might have something to do with the whole “not making the postseason” thing. I thought I’d share some quick thoughts and links.
There’s a lively discussion on Pedro Feliz over at El Lefty Malo’s. Go check it out, lots of great opinions on Pedro Feliz and how to fill […]

Everyone’s favorite GM, Brian Sabean, sat down on Monday to chat with fans about the Giants and their upcoming 2008 season. Let’s see if we can try to make sense of some of his answers.
DannyN: Are you going to offer Omar Vizquel a contract?
Sabean: Vizquel’s situation will be addressed shortly, […]