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I like how Farhan is building the farm system.  I think he can turn this around.  But the Kapler hire from day one had me scratching my head.

I like how Farhan is building it as well.  Last year, all of the minor league teams improved, some significantly.  And Farhan's been saddled with many terrible contracts from older players who can no longer produce.  Of course, Kapler and Farhan get the blame for that.

BTW, at the end of last season, Kapler's and Bochy's career winning percentage was exactly the same, .497.  Of course, everyone thinks of Bochy as a first-ballot Hall of Fame manager, while Kapler is a dumpster fire.

And yes...I'd much rather see Bart, Corry, Ramos, Luciano and Bishop play -- in fact, I'd rather see anyone play other than their current catchers or shortstops.  Flores is great at bat but scary in the field.  I wonder if that's how SMOE (Smartest Man On Earth) #1 Farhan or SMOE #2 Kapler envisioned the "versatility", by having players in less-than-familiar positions.

That "smartest guy in the room" syndrome is the bane of my existence, btw.

Garcia, Watson, Cahill have ERAs under 1.60.  Menez and Selman are in the 2-3 ERA range.  Smyly and Webb are between 3.00 and 4.00.  The other 14 are 4.21 or worse.

I'm STILL peeved at Bochy for pulling Moore in Game 6 against the Cubs (could not care less that the guy had thrown 120 pitches . . . he was dealing and Cubs were reeling).  At least let him start the 9th and see what he's got.

But, Bochy did win 3 WS titles with the Giants - were the Giants the best team in baseball in any of those years?  (Were they even Top 3?).

Kapler has won . . . nothing.  

But it's not the W/Ls, per se, but it's just making stupid ass decisions that cost your team the best chance to win.  That is where Kapler has been an epic fail so far, at least to these eyes.  I can think of 4 Ls that could/should easily be Ws for the Giants.  Yeah, they're not a great team.  Far from it.  But if they were sitting at .500 now, then we would all have a lot different outlook on the rest of the season.

P.S.  To Lex, for the 8th and 9th, when you had Watson and Shaun Anderson, why not Watson and . . . Watson?  A brobdingnagian pet peeve of mine: pitcher mows down hitters in the 8th, but manager knee-jerk-pulls him in the ninth.  That is especially inexcusable this year for the Giants, who are flailing away for pen duties.  There is no reason a guy who rolls 1-2-3 in the 8th can't come back out in the ninth (unless there are pitch count concerns, perhaps cumulative).

[teejers1]

I like how Farhan is building the farm system.  I think he can turn this around.  But the Kapler hire from day one had me scratching my head.

I like how Farhan is building it as well.  Last year, all of the minor league teams improved, some significantly.  And Farhan's been saddled with many terrible contracts from older players who can no longer produce.  Of course, Kapler and Farhan get the blame for that.

BTW, at the end of last season, Kapler's and Bochy's career winning percentage was exactly the same, .497.  Of course, everyone thinks of Bochy as a first-ballot Hall of Fame manager, while Kapler is a dumpster fire.

And yes...I'd much rather see Bart, Corry, Ramos, Luciano and Bishop play -- in fact, I'd rather see anyone play other than their current catchers or shortstops.  Flores is great at bat but scary in the field.  I wonder if that's how SMOE (Smartest Man On Earth) #1 Farhan or SMOE #2 Kapler envisioned the "versatility", by having players in less-than-familiar positions.

That "smartest guy in the room" syndrome is the bane of my existence, btw.

Garcia, Watson, Cahill have ERAs under 1.60.  Menez and Selman are in the 2-3 ERA range.  Smyly and Webb are between 3.00 and 4.00.  The other 14 are 4.21 or worse.

I'm STILL peeved at Bochy for pulling Moore in Game 6 against the Cubs (could not care less that the guy had thrown 120 pitches . . . he was dealing and Cubs were reeling).  At least let him start the 9th and see what he's got.

But, Bochy did win 3 WS titles with the Giants - were the Giants the best team in baseball in any of those years?  (Were they even Top 3?).

Kapler has won . . . nothing.  

But it's not the W/Ls, per se, but it's just making stupid ass decisions that cost your team the best chance to win.  That is where Kapler has been an epic fail so far, at least to these eyes.  I can think of 4 Ls that could/should easily be Ws for the Giants.  Yeah, they're not a great team.  Far from it.  But if they were sitting at .500 now, then we would all have a lot different outlook on the rest of the season.

P.S.  To Lex, for the 8th and 9th, when you had Watson and Shaun Anderson, why not Watson and . . . Watson?  A brobdingnagian pet peeve of mine: pitcher mows down hitters in the 8th, but manager knee-jerk-pulls him in the ninth.  That is especially inexcusable this year for the Giants, who are flailing away for pen duties.  There is no reason a guy who rolls 1-2-3 in the 8th can't come back out in the ninth (unless there are pitch count concerns, perhaps cumulative).