15-year-old Mauricio Dubon visits AT&T (Oracle) Park. Photo credit: SFGate/Richey Family by DrLefty The Giants’ spring training camp, complete with a brand-new clubhouse complex, opened this week. Everyone slunk in, sad about how PECOTA says they’ll finish dead-last with just 68 wins in 2020, glum about the loss of Madison…
Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey, and Hunter Pence on an Orange Friday Past Photo credit: NBCS-Bay Area by DrLefty This is my third year of doing a Happy FanFest Day post, and as I did last year, I spent time reading over my previous efforts before starting today’s post. You can…
San Francisco Giants pitchers and catchers report for duty. Photo credit: Rick Scuteri, USA Today by DrLefty Hello February. Super Bowl.NHL Trade Deadline.NBA Trade Deadline.Pitchers and Catchers Report.Champions League Returns. Sneaky good month. — Sid Seixeiro (@Sid_Seixeiro) February 1, 2020 Today is February 1 and my half-birthday. Now,…
by DrLefty As per usual, there wasn’t much Giants news this week. And unlike last week, there wasn’t a major MLB scandal to discuss, unless you’re really, really upset about Derek Jeter falling one vote short of a unanimous first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame. (Me: If the Babe…
Houston Astros celebrate after cheating to *win the 2017 World Series. Photo credit: AP by DrLefty We’ll get to the Giants news, but let’s just get this out of the way. The Astros’ sign-stealing scandal is not just the biggest baseball news of this week. It’s up there in the…
Live spring training countdown here by DrLefty Once the ball has dropped and the New Year has been rung in, it’s close enough to spring training to start counting the days and surveying the landscape. It’s a little premature to deconstruct the Giants’ 40-man roster that will report to Scottsdale…
by DrLefty A few years ago, Mr Lefty and I took Lefty Jr. and her boyfriend to a fundraising event in Rohnert Park (where they were Sonoma State students) at which the guest speaker was recently retired Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt. We were there early and actually got to meet…
by DrLefty Well, here it is–my last post of the 2010s. I know I may be beating a dead horse here with this end-of-the-decade stuff, but let’s face it: It’s Christmas/New Year’s week, and nothing is happening in baseball, particularly with the Giants. I could complain some more about Gabe…
by DrLefty OK, I know it’s almost Festivus and time for the Airing of Grievances, but I think Surf Maui and Greek Giant already covered that for this week. And honestly, I’m still just too darn sad to go even deeper into how awful I feel about Bumgarner leaving and…
by DrLefty I’ll admit this up front: I don’t know the answer to the question I posed in the title. But I thought it would be interesting to think about and discuss in this after-the-Winter-Meetings post. The “emperor” to whom I refer is, of course, Giants President of Baseball Operations…