the giants made a move to, designating tyler walker for assignment and bringing up their top relief prospect, who, in his 1st appearance yesterday went 2 innings, striking out 3, walking none and throwing only 22 pitches. I'm so excited, we finally have a reliever who can throw strikes and throw hard. he throws 94-95.

yipg Wrote:well, Krivsky finally made a move today, designating Womack for assignment while acquiring Cody Ross from the Dodgers. At least the crowded 2B spot has cleared somewhat, but more moves are sure to come when Griffey comes back from the DL.

Not a bad move by the Reds. Womack was just taking up space. Ross has a solid bat.

it would probably be smarter to worry more about the pitching than the second base situation.

flyingswoosh Wrote:it would probably be smarter to worry more about the pitching than the second base situation.

True, but I don't know if there's a team out there right now willing to give up good pitching. I wouldn't be opposed to them getting rid of 1 or 2 of their 36+ yrs old relievers, but it's not like the Reds have an abundance of pitching talent in their farm system ready to make the jump to help out with the big league club.

the giants probably are the only team willing to trade pitching. i would definitely bet schmidt is available, as well as either brad hennessey or kevin correia.

flyingswoosh Wrote:the giants probably are the only team willing to trade pitching. i would definitely bet schmidt is available, as well as either brad hennessey or kevin correia.

Anything you could get for Hennessey or Correia would be great, because neither of those guys impress me, even though Hennessey's pitched well so far. At any rate, they're 5th starters at best for the Giants, and if they could trade them to some starting pitching-starved team and get some help for that bullpen, the Giants better go for it. The rotation is pretty much set with Schmidt, Morris, Lowry (whenever he comes back), Wright and Cain.

I wouldn't trade Schmidt, though, unless you can get guys who can help you win this year. That division is clearly the Giants for the taking, so why trade Schmidt for prospects? Schmidt's not an ace anymore, but I still think he's a good No. 3 starter and an innings eater. Those are hard to come by.

see, i agree that hennessey is a fifth starter, but he is a bulldog. correia has awesome stuff with really good potential. i disagree about trying to get stuff to help them win this year, in fact i want the exact opposite. i want prospects and i wanna trade durham, schmidt, and alou. i want them to blow up this team now. yeah, we can defnitely win the division, but big deal. we aren't gonna get to the series, we suck.

Wow.

Do the Giants have enough young talent to go into total rebuilding mode?

GDawgs88 Wrote:Wow.

Do the Giants have enough young talent to go into total rebuilding mode?

maybe, that's what trading veterans is for. we have frandsen, esteve, valdez , sanchez, sanders (hopefully). horwitz and threets. the biggest thing we have is $$$$$. at the end of this season bonds, alou, finley, schmidt and durham come off the books. that's a combined $51 mil. after the 2007 season we have benitez, matheny, vizquel, and worrell coming off the books. that right there is close to $20 mil. we need to get ourselves some free agents.

hennessey pitched really well again today. his last 6 major league starts:
6 innings 2 R
7 innings 4 R (in coors)
6.1 innings 0 R
7 innings 1 R
6 innings 2 R
8.2 innings 1 R

not bad stats.