OK, Pavlovic best beat writer about the Giants. I'm not even familiar with his work. Baggs is really spot on though when I hear him speak about the Giants compared with the other people that try.Lars The Wanderer said:
Wow. I think it is. That is is Cespedes' turtleneck.Corsi said:
Corsi said:It's begun. The Dentist has his claws in this one.
Pablo handled that really well, and he has worked on his English a lot. One thing that was a bit comical to me was when the second guy brought up his weight, the Duncan Donuts ads seemed to stand out more.Hee Sox Choi said:
Yeah, this statement is completely ridiculous. As if the Red Sox don't have any "character" guys. I think the influence of one player over another player is overblown, but if you make this statement you are ignoring that the Red Sox have the poster child of character guys in Dustin Pedroia. Not to mention Victorino who has been lauded as a clubhouse guy in the past. Napoli is probably on this list too, and by all accounts Xander is going to be. (Please god, don't let Ben trade him.)
You do realize that Sandoval has been asked, continually, about his weight and the status of his weight and conditioning program in almost every season he's been a big leaguer? There are fall stories about what he's planning to do in the off-season to lose weight, there are winter updates about what progress he's made, there are spring stories on how he looked when he showed up in Arizona and there are in-season stories on how he's gained weight and what the Giants are asking him to do about it. San Francisco isn't a vicious media town, but they actually do their jobs. For f's sake, people.FenwayFrenzy said:
I don't think the previous answers to this were correct. My understanding is that the option would count the full $17 million against the 2020 cap, but the Red Sox luxury tax number would be retroactively decreased by $1 million per year from 2015 to 2019, and any associated luxury tax payments on that $1 million would be rebated.DennyDoyle said:
In his defense, Gregor Blanco is supposedly one of the absolute best guys in the Giants clubhouse. He constantly tries to help players and build them up. Actually, he was one of the people who talked to Juan Perez after he found out mid-game about Oscar Taverez's death, got Perez to focus back on the game. So, I think she was trying to say Hanley Ramirez specifically isn't as great a clubhouse guy as two of the best clubhouse guys on the Giants roster... it's a stupid point because he's not playing on a team with only Hanley Ramirez, and it seems Pablo and Hanley are buddies. But I think her point was that the Giants have an unusual team-first chemistry that's difficult to recreate.joe dokes said:
http://www.masslive.com/redsox/index.ssf/2014/11/pablo_sandoval_to_work_with_re.html
gaelgirl said:
I think we are officially in the overthinking stage here. He'll play well and be fine, or he'll struggle and face criticism formed to that failure like everyone doesgaelgirl said:
So he weighed 245 after shedding weight before the season began? Or is he was under 245 during the season and gained the weight back to be at 245? I wonder what weight he played at this season. He looked bigger than 245 in the playoffs, but who knows?
joe dokes said:
Hanley makes more sense as the future DH. Much better bat, moving from less premium position and could help keep him healthy down the line.EvilEmpire said:
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JimD said:
To me, he always seemed to be forcing a big grin when interviewed after a game by Amy Gutierrez, [SIZE=13.63636302948px]Giants sideline reporter. For the life of me, I could only understand parts of what he was saying. Today, he looked a little nervous (understandable) but more natural and I got all of what he said. I liked his ticking off a 1 through 7 Red Sox lineup: Vic, Pedey, Papi, Hanley, Himself, Napoli and Bogaerts. Looks good, but did Ben C. talk to him about Vic leading off? [/SIZE]Bosox4416 said:
Darnell's Son said:
"It's exciting for me to be with Hanley and David Ortiz," Sandoval said Tuesday, adding that the trio has already been dubbed the "Three Amigos."BeantownIdaho said:
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daveuk said:
And yet the Giants never trotted out that monstrosity of a panda that the Red Sox did today.plucy said:
I'm just saying they haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet. He's more a cartoon than the real thing (hence huge panda hats and things like that). Most of it? I think after watching him for the next five years, you'll look back at this and think the same thing. It's not an indictment on his character, it's a nervous situation. He doesn't know the writers, he has to speak English the entire time, he knows he's going to have to explain why he left San Francisco and answer questions about fitness and being a DH and other uncomfortable things.Bosox4416 said:
His listed weight has been 245 pretty much since 2009 or so, I think. That was the Giants' goal weight for him, and for the most part he'd come into Spring Training near that mark. Then throughout the season, he'd gain weight. That happened this past year, too. He gained less than he usually does, though, so that's a positive. I'd guess he ended the season around 265. In 2010, writers estimated he was around 280-285. That's the year he was benched for the World Series. You don't want to see that again, he was terrible. That's also the year they had the highly-publicized "Camp Panda" weight loss and workout camp for about a month, where he lost 30-40 pounds. He gained some of that back before Spring Training, which the Giants weren't happy about. And that might be the beginning seed of why he's a Red Sox now and not a Giant.EvilEmpire said:
I saw him a lot with the SJ Giants (07) and he doesn't seem much bigger than that. But he was impressive as a catcher. I was amazed at his quickness and agility on bunts and stolen bases. Of course he has slowed down some but he carried the weight well.gaelgirl said:
nattysez said:
Ann Killion despises Barry Bonds and what his ilk did to the game of baseball. She has been a vocal critic of both Bonds and how the Giants organization dealt with him. She even took a small jab at them in her column about how SF will mill Sandoval, calling the end of the Bonds era "a methodical, joyless home run march."daveuk said:
He's a really good athlete. In my opinion his size is only a problem (thus far in his career anyway) when he gets to that 275+ extreme. I hope for the Red Sox that he does actually intend to stay as a third baseman. It's a bellwether on how well he can hit. If he's too out of shape to field, you don't want him in the batter's box in any capacity.plucy said:
