Matt Duffy HR's again and Tim Lincecum is 7-3......

....but the Giants suck at home right now, so all is not well in Gigante-land. Maybe pick up Mike Leake or Dillon Gee for the staff, but who would you add to this lineup? Some consistency would help I guess.

Giants are right about where they should be at .530 winning percentage, an 86 win pace. Might want to pick up the pace a bit, but no worries until the last month of the season and then the nail-biting can begin in earnest.

Gotta get the 1st rounder Bickford signed as well, but signing Shaw and Miller is a good start,

from mercurynews.com
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/giants/2015/06/16/matt-duffy-homers-bullpen-protects-tim-lincecums-first-win-over-mariners-as-giants-end-miserable-home-losing-streak/

--The Giants signed two of their top draft picks, according to MLB.com. Slugging first baseman Chris Shaw (supplemental first round, 31st overall) agreed to a $1.4 million bonus that was $485,000 under the recommended slot value. The Giants used the savings to sign their third-round pick, Georgia high school shortstop Jalen Miller, to a $1.1 million bonus that was nearly double the assigned value ($598,000).

OK, back to looking at the big club.

The hitters sorted by OPS, lookie-lookie it's Joe Panik on top by one point over Brandon Belt. The HR Derby between Panik and the Duff Man is dead-locked at six.  Pagan has slumped to .270 while McGehee has streaked to .210 so a wash there. Blanco and Pence are on the mend and that hurts, as does Maxwell slumping and Susac maybe experiencing the sophomore slump that has so far evaded Panik and Duffy.

G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Joe Panik	63	238	34	74	15	2	6	25	23	31	2	1	.311	.376	.466	.842
Brandon Belt	60	207	28	58	17	1	8	28	22	62	2	2	.280	.353	.488	.841
Brandon Crawford	65	227	32	64	14	2	9	40	18	50	3	2	.282	.351	.480	.831
Buster Posey	62	228	29	67	10	0	9	36	26	23	0	0	.294	.367	.456	.823
Nori Aoki	63	248	31	80	8	2	2	18	23	17	12	5	.323	.389	.395	.784
Gregor Blanco	48	115	21	32	10	2	1	7	14	27	4	2	.278	.354	.426	.780
Matt Duffy	53	173	18	50	8	0	6	29	10	34	2	0	.289	.340	.439	.780
Hunter Pence	18	71	13	20	4	1	2	13	5	14	1	0	.282	.329	.451	.780

On the pitching side, sorted by WHIP, you can see where the strength of this team is and that's in the bullpen. Lopez and everyday George Kontos balance out the struggling Jean Machi and Jeremy Affeldt.

Bumgarner at 7-3, Lincecum at 7-3 and Heston at 6-5 lead the starters. Hudson 4-6 and Vogelsong 4-5 are just barely keeping their heads above water. Peavy and Cain come back eventually, I suppose. The interest in Leake and Gee is somewhat unsettling in that regard. Either Peavy and/or Cain are not progressing through rehab as we've been led to believe or Vogie and/or Hudson are on shaky ground as starters. 

Time for guys to start to step up or step aside. 

G	GS	W	L	SV	BS	HLD	CG	K	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	ERA	WHIP	BAA
Javier López	31	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	13	18.2	6	2	2	0	6	0.96	0.64	.102
George Kontos	32	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	22	34.2	24	7	6	2	5	1.56	0.84	.194
Yusmeiro Petit	19	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	27	38.0	31	14	14	5	7	3.32	1.00	.217
Michael Broadway	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2.0	2	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.00	.333
Hunter Strickland	11	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	14	11.2	11	4	4	0	1	3.09	1.03	.250
Madison Bumgarner	13	13	7	3	0	0	0	0	79	85.1	79	30	30	10	16	3.16	1.11	.242
Sergio Romo	30	0	0	3	0	0	18	0	32	20.2	19	11	10	1	6	4.35	1.21	.238
Chris Heston	13	13	6	5	0	0	0	2	72	79.0	77	37	33	6	22	3.76	1.25	.252
Santiago Casilla	30	0	4	1	18	3	0	0	27	26.2	24	8	7	3	11	2.36	1.31	.240
Tim Lincecum	13	13	7	3	0	0	0	0	57	73.1	64	29	27	7	35	3.31	1.35	.237
Tim Hudson	13	13	4	6	0	0	0	0	40	79.1	89	41	41	9	19	4.65	1.36	.289
Ryan Vogelsong	13	11	4	5	0	0	0	0	49	67.1	67	39	36	10	29	4.81	1.43	.257