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Giants are about to announce Bob Melvin as their new manager.

Bummer. I was hoping for Alyssa Nakken. . . .

The Giants have it on their web site.

Bob Melvin to be hired as Giants manager (sources) (mlb.com).

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea. He's coached for 20 seasons, finished first in his division 4 times and made the wild card twice. His teams were ousted in both wild card games, and ousted in the first round of the playoffs three times. So in 20 years, Melvin made it to the NLCS just once and was ousted in five games. This year, he had eight Padres players who had multiple all-star games on their resume, along with six other players who were gold glove winners, or finished in the Top Five of Cy Young voting multiple times or were single-time all-star game participants. In other words, he had a LOADED roster...that had to win 14 of their last 16 games to finish 82-80 with the third highest payroll in baseball at $249 mms., and finished three games ahead of the Giants, a team with a roster nearly bereft of hitting and fielding talent.

Melvin doesn't excite me at all. I have the exact opposite feeling, and it will be the first year in many, many years that I won't buy a ticket. And after they go 3-7 in their first ten games, I probably won't watch them on TV either. 

If this team wins 78 games next year, I will be very surprised. But hey, BoMel ix a 3x Manager of the Year (Kapler only won it once). Maybe BoMel will turn all the first and second year players into All-Stars. Here's hoping...

Couldn’t disagree more.  Perfect choice.  Experience.  Respected.  Has worked with FZ.  Analytics oriented but not dominated.  And allegedly highly respected with Pacific Rim players.  Since Yamamoto and Lee Jung- Hoo are heavily on their radar, he can perhaps help them close the deal.

He got Pads past Dodgers in ‘22 NLDS.  From what I’ve read, big disconnect between he and Prellar.  And Prellar is hell to work with. 

Melvin wont have openers going three games out of 5. Nor will he PH for a respected veteran with a AAAA player, just cause the AAAA player stands in the right hand batters box and a lefty is pitching. Melvin will platoon as necessary. Use analytics as all others do. But he gets that these are players, not chess pieces.

Yes, his A’s teams were ousted.  As Billy Beane so aptly put it : “My shit doesn’t work in the playoffs.”

As for how many they win in ‘24.  I’d kind of like to see the roster first……

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Giants are about to announce Bob Melvin as their new manager.

Bummer. I was hoping for Alyssa Nakken. . . .

The Giants have it on their web site.

Bob Melvin to be hired as Giants manager (sources) (mlb.com).

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea. He's coached for 20 seasons, finished first in his division 4 times and made the wild card twice. His teams were ousted in both wild card games, and ousted in the first round of the playoffs three times. So in 20 years, Melvin made it to the NLCS just once and was ousted in five games. This year, he had eight Padres players who had multiple all-star games on their resume, along with six other players who were gold glove winners, or finished in the Top Five of Cy Young voting multiple times or were single-time all-star game participants. In other words, he had a LOADED roster...that had to win 14 of their last 16 games to finish 82-80 with the third highest payroll in baseball at $249 mms., and finished three games ahead of the Giants, a team with a roster nearly bereft of hitting and fielding talent.

Melvin doesn't excite me at all. I have the exact opposite feeling, and it will be the first year in many, many years that I won't buy a ticket. And after they go 3-7 in their first ten games, I probably won't watch them on TV either. 

If this team wins 78 games next year, I will be very surprised. But hey, BoMel ix a 3x Manager of the Year (Kapler only won it once). Maybe BoMel will turn all the first and second year players into All-Stars. Here's hoping...

Couldn’t disagree more.  Perfect choice.  Experience.  Respected.  Has worked with FZ.  Analytics oriented but not dominated.  And allegedly highly respected with Pacific Rim players.  Since Yamamoto and Lee Jung- Hoo are heavily on their radar, he can perhaps help them close the deal.

He got Pads past Dodgers in ‘22 NLDS.  From what I’ve read, big disconnect between he and Prellar.  And Prellar is hell to work with. 

Melvin wont have openers going three games out of 5. Nor will he PH for a respected veteran with a AAAA player, just cause the AAAA player stands in the right hand batters box and a lefty is pitching. Melvin will platoon as necessary. Use analytics as all others do. But he gets that these are players, not chess pieces.

Yes, his A’s teams were ousted.  As Billy Beane so aptly put it : “My shit doesn’t work in the playoffs.”

As for how many they win in ‘24.  I’d kind of like to see the roster first……