Are Giants desperate or arrogant?

A's deep, Giants desperate as trade deadline nears

				A's deep, Giants desperate as trade deadline nears The demarcation point of the baseball season arrives Thursday. [...] yes, despite the gloom and doom at AT&T Park over the weekend, the Giants remain ve...
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A pretty fair compare and contrast by Ann Killion, even though she is getting ripped in the comments section of the article by Giants fans for using the word "desperate". I worry more that the operative word is "complacent", but other than that, a pretty fair assessment.

The farm system is still not able to replenish the big club when injuries hit and we've seen that throughout the years with the Giants. They live very hand to mouth and it does seem as if the roster is top heavy with the emphasis on the first 25 men on the roster rather than a more solid 40 man roster. The bottom 15 is generally not major league ready. The complacency that I refer to is demonstrated in some of the Giants fans comments that revolve around the "we've got two rings in the past four year, what do you have?" mentality. Extending this type of hubris to the upper levels of Giants management and you can see why some other Giants fans are frustrated with the predicament the G-men find themselves in. AGAIN.

The two titles bought them some time to deal with this issue and yet, here we go again, same old story.

from SFGate:
http://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/A-s-deep-Giants-desperate-as-trade-deadline-nears-5652630.php

The Giants, in contrast, are a team built on predictability. The Giants want to trot out the same eight position players every day and pay their players accordingly and, by doing that, don't carry much depth. When injuries happen, like right now, it's a huge problem. The Giants can't overcome the loss of players they were counting on, like Marco Scutaro andAngel Pagan. Throw in the unfortunate Brandon Belt and Hector Sanchez concussions and the team is hanging on by its fingernails. There is no depth on the roster and a huge lag in the farm system, where the best prospects aren't major-league ready.

The Giants' recent troubles have led to accusations that the team is too old, just like in the Barry Bonds days. That's not a completely accurate assessment: In the Bonds days, the Giants let their farm system wither deliberately. They traded draft picks for aging veterans, had no homegrown position players and created a team of older players who could coexist with Bonds.

The current Giants are reliant on homegrown players such as Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford, Pablo Sandoval and Belt. Those players, along with homegrown pitchers Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum and Madison Bumgarner, helped create a winning era that have meant lower draft picks. Over the years, the Giants have missed on some picks - most notablyGary Brown, who was expected to be in the AT&T outfield by now. The pipeline between the farm system and the major-league club operates in scattered bursts rather than a steady flow, the way it does for the A's.

 There are other ways to build a club besides a farm system. Money is not the issue with the Giants, and the fans know it. That's why they will be loudly frustrated if Brian Sabean's only moves are adding Dan Uggla and Jake Peavy. Yes, Utley would be expensive. But the Giants can handle the cost.

What the Giants need most right now is for the players they've been counting on - Posey, Sandoval, Hunter Pence and Michael Morse - to produce. That hasn't happened much in recent weeks.

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