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Applying for Sabean’s Job
As a recent college graduate I have been scouring the internet for an application to be the Giants next General Manager. Unfortunately for Giants fans, I haven’t found one yet.
As the Giants return from what I can only describe as one of the most painful road trips ever, it is clear that something has to be done. I would like to use this blog as a chance to interview for the position that most believe will soon be vacated.
My GM’s To Do’s List
1. Fire Bruce Bochy!
I want to be clear that firing Bruce has nothing to do with the recent road trip or the fact that we are losing, it’s because the team and him are a terrible fit. The truth is…… he got a raw deal with having to endure the last year of Barry Bonds, and then forced to rebuild with nothing but young pitching and no formidable free agent position players except Aaron Rowand. None the less, he isn’t the type of manager we (The Giants) need.
The Giants need a manager that is going to call for accountability of his players. Someone who’ll require all players to bunt, take pitches, hit and run, and play solid defense. Someone who understands small ball without running yourself out of games. Bochy isn’t this manager, and why there are many teams that could benefit from having a manager like Bochy, the Giants aren’t one of them.
2. Start Talking about Bengie Molina
While Molina may be one of the better hitting catchers in the game, his time in San Francisco is coming to an end. However, many teams would love the presence of a catcher of this magnitude as they gear up for a push for a title. If the Giants are where most are anticipating they will be at the All Star Break, it will be time to heat up trade talks for Bengie Molina.
A Team like the New York Mets will be drooling on themselves to have a catch that can do it both at and behind the plate. Brian Schneider and Ramon Castro are no where near the players Bengie is. It is time to rebuild and play small ball and Molina is not a guy that you can have plugging up the lineup with his god awful speed.
Bring Posey up after the trade and let the kid get his feet wet at the major league level, and if at the beginning of 2010 he isn’t ready, sign a decent catcher to a one year deal while you wait for the kid to develop………or just move Sandoval back there for a year.
3. Start Shopping Jonathon Sanchez
Here’s a guy that people are talking about, and upon close inspection, Giants fans aren’t really sure what to expect. However, he is a good young pitcher and the only trade bait we have without shipping out Cain or Lincecum. The Giants have many young pitchers coming up, and no room for them. Trading Sanchez and a young position player for a bat like Hank Blalock would bring the Giants one power bat they could infuse into their lineup.
These are just a few of a things I would do right off the bat, and while I doubt it will be me that gets the job as the next GM of the San Francisco Giants, I hope they do hire a new one, and before the off season. There are so many moves that could effect next year that need to be done this season.
Chris Haft and Me Don’t Always see Eye to Eye
I take the time to write Chris Haft on a regular basis with questions regarding the Giants. Last winter I didn’t understand why the Giants weren’t looking to deal Bengie Molina and here’s what I wrote:
Have the Giants given any thought to trading Bengie Molina? With the Mets looking for a backstop and reportedly willing to pay $5 million a year to Yorvit Torrealba, it seems like we might have some leverage with a catcher like Bengie. If not, could the Giants do something about his speed? It kills me to watch him lumber around the bases!
A week later Chris Haft took the time to answer my question:
Speed is not among Molina’s assets. Almost everything else is. He might have been the most valuable Giant in 2007. Eliezer Alfonzo and Guillermo Rodriguez are barely adequate as backups; surely you can’t be advocating replacing Molina with one of them?
I was a little ticked when I got the response, but hey, everyone has their own opinion. My attitude changed when I read the Mailbag the next week:
…………That leads to the subject of trading catcher Bengie Molina, a concept which was dismissed in this space last week. Molina could serve as bait for the bat the Giants seek, since catching is a highly sought commodity. To fill the void behind the plate, the Giants likely would engineer another deal or jump into a three-way trade that would send them a catcher. Numerous readers have mentioned acquiring Seattle prospect Jeff Clement or obtaining ex-Giant Yorvit Torrealba, a free agent, as possibilities.
Trading Molina, whose attitude is exemplary, would be difficult. But after the season he had (.276, 19 home runs, career-high 81 RBIs), his value never will be higher. And after that last-place, 71-91 season the Giants had, they need to do something definitive, even while maintaining their commitment to give younger, homegrown players more of a chance.
I was so pumped, he took the time to revisit it, but at the same time I’m glad the Giants didn’t trade Molina! Especially since this email came after all the catchers had signed or been moved, the demand was much lower.
SO….
Here I sit this off season, still with Bengie (happily I might add) and someone says to me at work last night, “The Giants should trade Molina and get Posey up here.”
WHAT?
NO!, NO!, NO!!!!! We have a chance to contend for the West this year, unlike last year! Why would we trade him now!
If at the deadline, we aren’t in contention, sure, trade him! Send him to Boston or a New York team and let Posey and Sandoval catch. Get something for him before his contract expires! However, if the Giants are where I expect them to be in July, they are going to need him. Trading him now would be a huge mistake.
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