Giants try lineup Switcheroo, need more Baseball Bugs

Scutaro IS probably the Giants most patient hitter, HOWEVER, his AB's do not generally end in walks as much as the ideal lead-off hitter. Paradoxically, Hunter Pence who was moved into the #3 hole, walked three times yesterday (and it wasn't so they could get to one B.Posey in the lineup).

from Yahoo Sports:
San Francisco Giants - Team Report - MLB - Yahoo! Sports:

2B Marco Scutaro was moved up one spot to the leadoff slot in the batting order Monday, and manager Bruce Bochy assured this was more than a one-night audition. OFs Gregor Blanco and Andres Torres have floundered atop the order pretty much ever since regular leadoff man, CF Angel Pagan, suffered a hamstring injury May 25. Scutaro, who has a .306 batting average, was considered an ideal candidate for a leadoff trial in part because he's probably the most patient Giants hitter. Scutaro entered Monday's game 29th in the National League with 3.85 pitches per at-bat. Only two Giants (1B Brandon Belt, 4.04, and C Buster Posey, 3.97) had better figures than Scutaro. Maybe it's a curse: Scutaro went 0-for-5 in his leadoff debut.

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My problem with this lineup configuration is that now TWO guys are batting in less than their ideal spots in the order -- you've displaced Scutaro AND Crawford ( to the # 2 spot ) whereas just moving Pence to the lead-off spot, ( and did I mention Pence stole a base as well? Something else a lead-off hitter does ) and leaving Scutaro in the #2 hole, only puts one guy in a strange spot. Crawford has generally been floating around the mid to bottom of the order all season. I'm just not sure that Crawford or Blanco or Torres move the ball around ( or runners ) and are as adept at situational hitting ( the productive out ) as Scutaro is.

Pence also puts some pop at the top of the order and IMO if you're going to go unconventional with the lead-off spot by taking away some Judy, then add some PUNCH!!

Hey, I have a crazy idea!!! Why not Posey in the lead-off spot, like they do in Little League. Put your best guy in there and get him more swings, it's only a six inning affair with the little shavers, but heck the way the Giants turn the old batting order over, we may have to really go off the reservation.

Ideally, this is the model for How to Optimize Buster Posey.

from wimp.com: (original Baseball Bugs episode) 
http://www.wimp.com/bugsbunny/

Just a thought. Here are some more baseball classics for Bruce and the Boys to implement, since we are in the experimental stage of the season.

Bugs Bunny Baseball:



Baseball Bugs:



Cartoon Baseball:

Buster Posey makes case for ROY and comparisons to BASEBALL BUGS

As if on cue, Posey used last night's game against the Cubs to refute Joe Morgan's case for Jason Heyward as ROY and once again drew comparisons to the best individual performance in baseball history, real or imagined -- the Baseball Bugs (1946) episode.

HEY LOOK, IT'S JOE MORGAN AND BASEBALL FOR DUMMIES.

Posey hit a home-run to lead the Giants continually moribund offense to a 1-0 win over the near-equally comatose Cubs offense. Presumably, Posey also had an impact defensively in helping pitcher Matt Cain and three relievers to pitch a combined shutout. That ought to keep Mike Krukow and Brian Sabean quiet for a bit. Then again, Posey is having a game to forget tonight, so far. Once again the Giants are scoreless.

From IMDb - The Internet Movie database
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038333/

CLASSIC!! - BASEBALL BUGS


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I still use the term Bugs Bunny Change-up for a real killer change. I always thought he got three strikes on the same batter, it was so good. It turns out that ol' Bugs actually gets nine strikes and three outs on the same change-up, a feat not performed before or since. What other pitcher can say that?

Speaking of awful swings, what is up with Panda? Those hacks he's putting out there would inspire a "Next time hit him with your purse" crack from bench jockeys at the high school level.
Maybe if Renteria or DeRosa were healthy, Bochy could sit Sandoval. Because he sure isn't getting any better. He's currently hitting .265 or thereabouts and I would just guestimate that he's dropped 20 points off his average from poor conditioning and another 20 from bad plate discipline. Whether the vision problems noted in spring training or his personal troubles are related to one or both categories, IDK. Hopefully, he comes back in better shape all the way around in 2011, because the Giants could use the old Panda's bat.

GIANTS PROSPECTS - THE BUSTER POSEY ERA BEGINS

It looks like it is going to get crowded on the Buster Posey train. It appears as if Peter Gammons is on board.

FROM PETER GAMMONS BLOG ON BUSTER POSEY:

The other teams in the AL East were joyous when the Rays decided to take Tim Beckham over Posey with the first pick last spring. Posey is athletic, has a great arm, has incredible power and is a lover of the game.

And that's some pretty weak praise for a player the caliber of Buster Posey coming from Gammons.Hall of Famer my butt!!

Remember, you heard it here first in this classic blast we like to call "I <3 Buster Posey" http://slavieboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-heart-buster-posey.html

And I reiterated it here, proving conclusively that a lineup of Buster Posey's would be a force of nature capable of beating the 1927 New York Yankees lineup, nicknamed "Murder's Row".

http://slavieboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/our-nation-mourns-buster-posey-has-been.html

First, he has the Bugs Bunny baseball player career at Florida State. Next he'll take the National League by storm, winning the Rookie of the Year and M.V.P. Award in the same season.

He'll also win an ESPY, an Academy Award and probably a Nobel Peace Prize after warring nations put down their weapons to watch him play.

YOU WATCH !!! BUSTER POSEY IS THE MAN !!!!!
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Looking over the Giants Organizational Rosters brings up a couple of question marks.

I understand the Dominican free-agent signees Rafael Rodriguez and Luis Mateo are not likely to be placed on a Class A or above roster (too young). But where have you gone Wendell Fairley??

This was the MLB.com capsule on Fairley before the draft:

A two-sport standout long on tools, short on experience, Fairley is somewhat difficult to figure out heading into this draft.

A wide receiver with plus speed, Fairley hasn't always given baseball full attention. As a result, his tools are extremely raw. At the same time, he's shown skills -- above-average arm strength, raw power potential, bat speed that hints he could be an above-average hitter -- that are hard to look past. Any player this raw would be hard to place in terms of when he'll be drafted, but add in some makeup issues, and no one knows for sure when Fairley will be selected.

Comparisons to Rays Carl Crawford seemed realistic, but injuries and off-field issues seem to have conspired to retard his development. He's been MIA since being drafted.

Other Giant prospects Missing in Action:
SS - Ehire Adrianza
RHP- Kyle Nicholson
LHP - Aaron King
LHP - Ben Snyder

The Augusta (Low-A) roster has not been totally fleshed out so hopefully a couple of these guys will resurface.

OUR NATION MOURNS - BUSTER POSEY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED FROM THE CWS

I STILL <3 BUSTER POSEY


It is with great sadness that our nation receives the news that the collegiate career of Buster Posey has tragically come to an end with today's loss to the Miami Hurricanes in Omaha.

What makes this disaster even more senseless is this--IT DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN. The Florida State coaching staff will have to live with the shameful fact that they had the ultimate weapon at their disposal--LOCKED AND LOADED--and yet, chose not to use it with their season on the line against their most hated rival.

Listen, everyone knows that Posey played nine positions in one seven inning game against Savannah State, causing the panty-waists at ESPN to utter their disdain for the FSU program.

Remember this rant?


What was stopping Coach Martin, who is greatly respected, from handing in a lineup composed of Buster Posey playing every position on the field AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Especially in this game of games. You had him warmed up to the task by playing all nine positions over a seven-inning stretch in the tune-up against Savannah State. Why not turn him loose now?

I realize this approach has only happened one time in baseball history, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Remember this episode, boys and girls?

THE CLASSIC ALL-BUGS BUNNY BASEBALL LINEUP EPISODE:


It can only be the fear of public outcry and possible reprisals against the university that stopped them. But I ask you, Seminole Nation, is this the Florida State University you grew to know and love? The same Seminole Nation which most of the rest of the nation grew up to know and dislike with a passion?

When has the FSU program let public outcries like the PTI-style rant stop them in the past in their quest to over-hype FSU athletes. This is the program that uber-hyped J.D. Drew after he hit like a 900-foot home run one time. And who can forget the time Marshall MacDougall hit like ten home runs against Maryland once.

What they forgot to mention in the media hype was that J.D. Drew hit his home run with 120 MPH plus hurricane force winds at this back and that the game Marshall MacDougall hit his home runs, the game was played at a local Little League field, after Maryland's on-campus baseball field was overrun by angry Terrapins. But who cares? Both events happened. FSU won both games. And if they had to rub an occasional opponents face in the turf in pursuit of Garland and Gold glory, well tough titties, right?

Florida State is the same university that allowed Deon Sanders to engage in glorious fits of self-aggrandizement and spasmodic touchdown dances with body parts gyrating like a Dice-K gyroball. You can't tell me that most, if not all of America--including the knuckleheads on PTI--did not completely enjoy that era.

Can you just imagine a lineup of nine copies of Buster Posey and the baseball havoc such a lineup would wreck? They would theoretically defeat a lineup of every human being, living or dead, with the possible exception of a lineup consisting of nine Mike Ditka's.

To attempt to find out if our theoretical lineup would prevail, we used the famous Sagarin number to estimate what carnage such a lineup would produce. The Sagarin number essentially tells you how many runs per game would be scored by a lineup that consisted of nine copies of the same player.


THE SAGARIN NUMBER COMPUTATION:
25 * (SLG *OBA) / (1- AVG)

Using Buster Posey's Season Numbers as of June 16th:

Player........... AVG....SLG....OBA
Buster Posey......463___.879___.566

SUCH A LINEUP WOULD PRODUCE APPROXIMATELY 23 RUNS PER GAME.

INSTEAD OF LOSING 7-5 TO MIAMI, CLEARLY FSU WINS BY 23-2.

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND CHOOSES TO LOSE 7-5 WHEN THEY CAN WIN 23-2??

And with Buster Posey pitching just his average game, which is all that would be required with a line-up of nine other Buster Posey's providing more than adequate run support, the all-Buster Posey team would have easily:

a) Defeated the Miami Hurricanes
b) Defeated the other college boy teams currently in Omaha
c) treated Erin Andrews to the weekend of her wildest dreams (no Rick Sutcliffe, you're not in them)
and
d) whet the nation's appetite for the all-Buster Posey vs. all-Mike Ditka team which would be held on pay-per-view the proceeds of which would
e) retire the National Debt with enough coin leftover to
f) fund national health care for everyone, including illegal aliens, visiting aliens, E.T. and
g) cure climate change

So as you can see, the FSU coaching staff has committed a blunder of near biblical proportions by not listening to the FSU sports marketing machine.

But FSU has not committed nearly as big a blunder as the Baseball Hall of Fame. No, I'm not talking about Pete Rose again. But seriously, how can the Baseball HOF, in good conscience, allow the Abbott and Costello comedy routine to enter the hallowed Hall, and continue to keep out the classic Bugs Bunny episode?

Baseball Fans of the World, it's time to rise up and end this injustice. Tell the Hall it's time to right this wrong. Send them cards, letters, e-mails and faxes until they scream Uncle. It's the right thing to do.