Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Giants release LHP Clayton Tanner - San Francisco Giants Rumors!


WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOE PATERSON? OH YEAH, I REMEMBER!!

According to San Francisco Giants Rumors! the Giants have released LHP Clayton Tanner.

(Confirmed by MLB Trade Rumors) http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/08/giants-release-clayton-tanner.html

Crazy, but somebody will pick up Tanner, He's still young and left-handed. Seems like he will be blocked on the Giants by Runzler and / or Surkamp. A bit of a waste of resources, a minor organizational setback.

As I mentioned in December, we protected Tanner, and in so doing lost Joe Paterson to the D-Backs in the Rule 5 Draft.

http://slavieboy.blogspot.com/2010/12/did-giants-make-rule-5-error.html

So now the D-Backs have a serviceable, LHP. Maybe a bit of a LOOGY, but useful. And the Giants now have zip. Tanner has struggled this year (6-10, 4.29 ERA in AA recently) but this still hurts a bit.

Not nearly as much as this.



Cubs blank slumping Giants 7-0 - MLB - Yahoo! Sports:

“At this time last year we were in a similar spot but we were gaining ground, not going backward,” said Lincecum, who gave up three home runs and allowed five runs in a 7-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Monday night. “Right now it’s obviously frustrating for everybody. It’s one of those situations where it’s hard to keep your head up when things aren’t really going our way.”


Or this,



POSTGAME NOTES: Bruce Bochy directs questions to the hitters, Lincecum goes back to the windup, etc. | Extra Baggs:

"The Giants are now 0-12 in series openers since winning their last one, on July 18. Bochy wanted to be sure the players knew about that stat, as embarrassing as it was. So he made sure to tell them before Monday’s game, and challenged them to do something about it.

But his audience is a lot like his offense: Nobody home."

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Anonymous said...

Tanner signed with the Reds. A huge loss to SF, they took a gamble that no one would pick him up and he would re-sign. They lost.

9/01/2011 11:51 PM
Charles Slavik, CPT*D said...

That's bad news. So we protect Tanner and lose Paterson only to lose Tanner a short time later. Idiotic.

It's bad roster management even if you say "Well, we're going with Runzler and Surkamp".

Let them all fight it out and find their role within the organization. Losing these guys for next to zero return is just dumb.

9/02/2011 7:19 AM

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