Yesterday, Mark DeRosa re-injured his wrist as he was cocking his bat for a pitch from Clayton Kershaw. Although he’s day-to-day manager Bruce Bochy said “It looks like he’s going to be out for a while.” (Via Chris Haft of MLB.com).
With Pablo Sandoval also on the Disabled List, the Giants will probably use Miguel Tejada [...]
05/19/11
As many of you know, I live in Venezuela, here baseball is a big deal, but we get only one maybe two games a day. To solve that problem I decided to get myself a TV package that has four more sports channel so I could enjoy up to five baseball games a day.
I kinda [...]
04/13/11
San Francisco Giant’s first baseman Brandon Belt could head back to the Minor Leagues when outfielder Cody Ross returns form his right calf injury, Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports reports. Although Belt leads the team with walks and pitches per plate appearance at 4.65, he could be a casualty of a roster squeeze.
The Giants may be [...]
04/06/11
The San Francisco Giants have decided to promote 22-year-old first baseman, Brandon Belt, to the big league club, John Shea of The San Francisco Chronicle Tweets. When told of his promotion by manager Bruce Bochy, the young infielder started to cry.
Although Belt was doing well in Spring Training, many expected him to open up [...]
03/30/11
San Francisco Giants’ rookie first baseman Brandon Belt could officially be named to the team’s 25-man roster by Wednesday, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It’s likely that Cody Ross‘ recent injury opened the door for Belt to break camp with the big league club.
Although Belt was doing well in Spring Training, [...]
03/30/11
When the Texas Rangers contacted the San Francisco Giants about their interest in disgruntled infielder Michael Young, the Rangers told them, “Don’t even bother bringing up [Aaron] Rowand’s name,” Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Rowand is at best a player to come off the bench for the defending World Series champions, and [...]
03/22/11
The San Francisco Giants were planning for Brandon Belt to start the season at Triple-A, but the team is not sure about that anymore according to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.
His performance this Spring Training has making the Giants decision to move him to Triple-A very difficult, but according the Giants GM, Brian Sabean, the team [...]
03/19/11
San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean is optimistic about his team’s chances this season. Sabean told the San Jose Mercury News’ Tim Kawakami that he can’t find much wrong with his current team this Spring.
Sabean adds that rookie first baseman Brandon Belt has a chance to be the team’s Opening Day first baseman. “He’s [...]
03/15/11
11. Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks had, in my opinion, a very similar off season as the Marlins did. Their most significant moves were the signing of J.J. Putz and trading for Armando Galarraga. They also brought a few veterans in to their roster with Xavier Nady, Melvin Mora, Willie Bloomquist, Mike Hampton, [...]
02/22/11
Do the San Francisco Giants have another Rookie of the Year candidate in their farm system? It’s possible with 22-year-old first baseman and outfielder Brandon Belt, and there’s a possibility that Belt could be on the Opening Day roster, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“He could make the club,” manager Bruce Bochy said. [...]
02/04/11