Wanted: A Real Roster

How messed up is the Giants roster? Tuesday night Bochy left Correia in to hit in the 8th inning of a one-run game, then had Hennessey pitch the 9th. Today Noah Lowry was tapped as a pinch hitter with Aurilia unavailable, Klesko out due to an injury I'm guessing, Sweeney burnt earlier as a pinch hitter, and Molina riding the bench so that Feliz wouldn't have to go behind the plate should Rodriguez get bowled over. It's a joke, really. Please, use the DL for one of these guys. Get somebody on the roster who can at least take the field.

Until Feliz doubled in the 8th, the best-hit ball was by Jonathan Sanchez, a relief pitcher. Sanchez negated his 6th-inning double a bit by getting himself thrown out at third to end the inning when the Giants were down by five runs.

The Giants on the basepaths are painful and mysterious. In the 9th, Schierholtz got on then stole second because the Jays were playing behind him and really didn't care. Fine. Now he's on second, two out, Bonds up. The entire Jays infield swings around to the right side. The Toronto player closest to third is the pitcher. Does Schierholtz take third? No. I can't fathom this unless Schierholtz is giving Bonds location, and even that seems absurd. Take the base. Why not? If Bonds walks, you've taken away the force at third. It's the Giants, so I wouldn't have been surprised if Bonds tried to poke one to the left side, only to have it bounce off Schierholtz to end the game when he should have been running from third to home.

Lincecum, for the third straight start, looked like the green rook that he is. He couldn't find the plate, and it didn't seem that Rodriguez helped him much, dropping an awful lot of balls. (Is it my imagination that whenever the Z Team gets thrown out there, Lincecum is the pitcher stuck with them?)

Ray Durham is digging a bigger and bigger hole out there. He's not hitting at all, and he's dubious in the field. I'd suggest benching him for a few days, but it seems the Giants don't have enough bodies to put out there without him.

Comments

[Frank]

Nah, the mistake is overreacting to the Alfonzo injury. They have made a very good decision to carry only 2 Cs - with two other backup backups (Feliz, Frandsen). How often does that (Alfonzo in jured) happen? No enough to waste a player for a year having him sit because "possibly" the starter gets hurt.
The smart thing is what the Giants have been doing for at least 2 yrs, use the back up C as the #2, 3, or 4 pinch hitter (late in the game). If the statistically unlikely happesn (as it did Friday night), hell, go with Frandsen orn Feliz for a few innings.

[Marty]

Yeah, that struck me as odd. How often do you lose your second catcher? Once every five seasons or so? The odds are very long for it to happen again, so use your hitters.