KTE, Last Year's World Champions, the San Francisco Giants

[Ceetar]

The roster for the former New York Gothams


41 Jeremy Affeldt
40 Madison Bumgarner
18 Matt Cain
55 Tim Lincecum
49 Javier Lopez
59 Guillermo Mota
52 Ramon Ramirez
54 Sergio Romo
45 Dan Runzler
57 Jonathan Sanchez
32 Ryan Vogelsong
38 Brian Wilson

28 Buster Posey
22 Eli Whiteside

2 Emmanuel Burriss
14 Mike Fontenot
17 Aubrey Huff
29 Ryan Rohlinger
21 Freddy Sanchez
10 Miguel Tejada

5 Pat Burrell
34 Darren Ford
13 Cody Ross
33 Aaron Rowand
12 Nate Schierholtz


Giant with the longest listed name: Madison Bumgarner

The Giants AA team is the Richmond Flying Squirrels

I'm not 100% on this but I think the only former Met is Guillermo Mota.

Mets all-time record against San Francisco Giants: 257 wins, 301 losses

The last trade between the two teams was Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Desi Relaford for Shawn Estes on December 16, 2001.

The Giants are 13-15 on the season and 5 games back of the lead. They just lost three of four to the Nationals to keep us in last place, something they must be punished for. After the Mets series they fly home for some divisional goodness. The Giants are 1-6 against the NL East this year. Fans are getting frustrated. One recent blog post reads: Post-game thread: Hold on. Let's start the season again.

The Giants are 15th in runs scored in the National League but their pitchers lead the league in Batting Average Against and are 7th in ERA.

Matchups:

Tuesday 7:10pm - Ryan Vogelsong versus R. A. Dickey

Vogelsong is the Giants version of Jason Isringhausen, Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 5th round of the 1998 amateur draft he was traded by the San Francisco Giants with Armando Rios to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jason Schmidt and John Vander Wal. The Giants had only really used him as a mop-up reliever through 24.2 innings, and the Pirates made him a starter. He wasn't really successful at either role. He was granted free agency after 2006, pitched in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes and the Hanshin Tigers, and didn't show up in the majors until 2010 where he signed free agent contracts with the Phillies and the Angels, being used by neither of them on the major league roster. He signed with the Giants again on 1/11/11. He struck out 17 in 11.1 innings this year in the minors and got the call when Zito went on the DL. This will be his fourth appearance and second start. He's got a 1.74 ERA and 11 Ks in 10.1 innings. In three games, one start, against the Mets he's got 1 win over 9 innings and a 1.0 ERA. The Mets starter in that game? Aaron Heilman. The only Met to drive in a run? Miguel Cairo drove in Ramon Castro back in July of 2005. Beltran is 0/1, Wright 2/5, Reyes 0/1.


Wednesday 7:10pm - Tim Lincecum versus Chris Capuano with your hero Ceetar in attendance.

I'm amused I didn't even have to photoshop this myself.

Timmy is having a typical year statistics wise, although he's only 2-3 on the season. He's lost two starts consecutively, giving up 5 and 3 runs respectively, coming in which probably doesn't bode well for the Mets. In the worthless statistics category, the 6th position in the order is OPSing 1.132 against Timmy, so go Ike!


Thursday 1:10pm - Jonathan Sanchez versus Mike Pelfrey (on MLB Network for you out of towners)

Jonathan Sanchez (real Jon's spell it Jonathon) walks 5.5 batters a game and strikes out nearly twice that. In other words, Jonathan (No relation to the crappy Jonathan Sanchez that hung around in the Mets minors a couple of years ago) is a lot like a healthy Oliver Perez. Don't believe me? In his last start he walked four guys in the first inning and did not allow a run. He walked two more, hit two batters, and only made it through five innings.


Injuries: Pablo Sandoval: The Round Mound of Pound has been the best player on the Giants this year, however he's out 4-6 weeks to have surgery on his hand, which will take place Tuesday at 12:30 according to his tweets.

btw, they're making a second movie.

Here's a quote from the blog, McCovey Chronicles:

Sandoval is a hyper-ironic kind of guy who embraced the best-shape-of-his-life thing with the regular folk in order to be reverse-ironic hip while the garden-variety cool kids were laughing at players claiming to be in the best shape of his life. He�s ahead of his time, and he�s already missed.

Santiago Casilla is out with an inflamed right elbow
Mark DeRosa has left wrist inflamation
Andres Torres has a Left Achilles strain but should be back soon.
Barry Zito has right mid-foot sprain
Cody Ross has a right calf strain
Brian Wilson has a left oblique strain

Other Players

Pat Burrell
Burrell's having a typical year as well, low batting average, high OBP, five home runs and twenty eight strikeouts in 80 AB. Pat "The Bat" (what a stupid nickname) Burrell is the somewhat forgotten Met killer since he went out west. With Ryan Howard bashing a couple of home runs on Friday, Burrell might feel some pressure to try to keep pace.

Buster Posey
The rookie World Champion catcher. Suddenly the talk is Mauer's too fragile to be a catcher and Posey is the catching stud of the future. Matt Wieters had a brief period where people were gushing about him, but it didn't last much past his debut. The 24 year old Posey's off to a good start, but still off his pace from last year with a couple more strikeouts and a couple less doubles. I imagine if he were a Yankee we'd hear Sterling go off about a Pocket full of Posey. Hopefully we'll be saved from that forever.

Brandon Belt
Belt's another one of those guys that Sterling wishes was a Yankee. Brandon was drafted by both the Braves and Red Sox, turning both down, before signing with the Giants in 2009. He's a good prospect, but has struggled this year, already being demoted back to AAA. Given all the injuries, he'll probably be back soon.

Mike Fontenot
The former Cub and current member of Ceetar's Optimism, looks to get some time with the injury to Kung Fu Panda. So far six of his nine hits have been for extra bases.

Aaron Rowand
One of the oldest players playing CF in the majors at 33. He had a poor year last year but so far this year his numbers are closer to his career average.


They don't play here anymore.

[G-Fafif]

Thorough research in a pinch.

The New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society will be attending its first Mets-Giants game as a unit, modern-day allegiances divided. But we'll all be Americans Tuesday night.

[Guest themetfairy]

The rookie hits an IGT home run in his first at bat!

Well played Ceetar.

[Edgy MD]

Giants ranked by how much they sound like they played in 1915.

10. Brian Wilson
9. Mike Fontenot
8. Dan Runzler
7. Pat Burrell
6. Darren Ford
5. Nate Schierholtz
4. Buster Posey
3. Madison Bumgarner
2. Emmanuel Burriss
1. Eli Whiteside

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm descended from a Brooklyn Dodger family, but if I could travel through time, I'd go to a game at the Polo Grounds before I'd go to Ebbets Field. That looks like such a nutty place to play baseball. I kind of wish the Wilpons had opted instead to rebuild the Polo Grounds.

[metirish]

Great job , is that Peta outrage real? , I'd not be one bit surprised if it were.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Great job , is that Peta outrage real? , I'd not be one bit surprised if it were.

I didn't research that part, but I wouldn't be surprised either. It just popped up in an image search and was too amusing not to include.

[seawolf17]

LOL @ "A POCKET FULL OF POSEY!" Sterling's an ass.

[MFS62]

Nice KTE.
Played like a grizzled veteran, someone who could have played at the Polo Grounds.
I sat in the right field stands there, during a game against SF when all three Alou brothers were on the the team. The fans were chanting, "Hey Alou! Which Alou are you?"

Later

[TransMonk]

Ceetar wrote: I'm not 100% on this but I think the only former Met is Guillermo Mota.

Ultimate Mets confirms it.

Pat Misch was a Giant in the past, but he's not with the big ballclub. Great KTE!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Double-wizard Lincecum.

EXCELLENT. (Knock 'em out the box, Cee.)



Aubrey Huff and the Giant contingent at the Caps-Lightning game this weekend?

BOGUS... or was it?

[Fman99]

Nice KTE knowledge. I can say from following the matter for fantasy baseball purposes that Andres Torres is not expected back in time for this series, the Gints are hoping he can come off the DL on Friday when they get back to Frisco.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

No Torres, no DeRosa, no Panda.

It's no surprise the Giant offense has been giving off a musty smell that ISN'T sweet sensamilla.

[Ceetar]

Lincecum is tied with Christy mathewson for most double digit strikeout games as a Giant. Presumably has a chance to take sole possession wednesday.

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: Lincecum is tied with Christy mathewson for most double digit strikeout games as a Giant. Presumably has a chance to take sole possession wednesday.

You can't think of one without thinking of the other.

[Ceetar]

The Mets are an even 139-139 against the Giants at home.

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: Ceetar wrote: Lincecum is tied with Christy mathewson for most double digit strikeout games as a Giant. Presumably has a chance to take sole possession wednesday. You can't think of one without thinking of the other.

Some very nice writing there!

(as always, of course)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hey, just realized-- no more Merkin!

Durnit.