[Mick]

Late Night LaMonte Wade just signed for about 1/5th of what Brandon Belt would have cost. BTW, Belt is going to Toronto to DH, not to play first base.

Why Brandon Belt, Giants didn't reunite in MLB free agency after 12-year stint - NBC Sports Bay Area

SF Giants agree to one-year deal with 1B/OF LaMonte Wade Jr.

And just a little bit OT, but as you all know, Shawn Purdy, Brock's father, played in the SF Giants organization. He was in AAA Phoenix and had a pretty good season, going 10-3. 14 of the 23 pitchers were called up to the big club that season, but not Purdy. He had the second best record on the staff. Like his son, didn't have a cannon for an arm, about 4-5 strikeouts every 9 innings. Eight pitchers with worse ERAs than Purdy got called up. Interesting.

1997 Phoenix Firebirds Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I’m not ready to define success by wins per dollar…. Having said that, it was clear Belt was not in Giants plan.  That’s fine. But I’m also not particularly excited about a Wade /Davis platoon…..

Of course not. They're not your dollars, and therefore, not a consideration you would consider important.  Every business in the world considers it to be important, but it's the prerogative of fans who don't have to make multi million/hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

Belt's OPS dropped nearly 300 points from 2021 to 2022. He's no longer a fielder, though at one time he was a legitimately great fielder. Toronto wants him to be their designated hitter.

J. D. Davis' OPS last year was .857, beating out Brandon Belt by nearly 200 points. True, Late Night LaMonte had a .665 OPS last injury riddled year, but it was .805 the year before.

Look, I realize that the Giants are betting on the come in a brobdingnagian way. But whether they had Judge or Correa (or Harper or Stanton or Bryant), they'd still be betting on the come, with slightly better odds.

I like this team.  I am excited. Feels like 2021 to me.

[Mick]

Late Night LaMonte Wade just signed for about 1/5th of what Brandon Belt would have cost. BTW, Belt is going to Toronto to DH, not to play first base.

Why Brandon Belt, Giants didn't reunite in MLB free agency after 12-year stint - NBC Sports Bay Area

SF Giants agree to one-year deal with 1B/OF LaMonte Wade Jr.

And just a little bit OT, but as you all know, Shawn Purdy, Brock's father, played in the SF Giants organization. He was in AAA Phoenix and had a pretty good season, going 10-3. 14 of the 23 pitchers were called up to the big club that season, but not Purdy. He had the second best record on the staff. Like his son, didn't have a cannon for an arm, about 4-5 strikeouts every 9 innings. Eight pitchers with worse ERAs than Purdy got called up. Interesting.

1997 Phoenix Firebirds Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I’m not ready to define success by wins per dollar…. Having said that, it was clear Belt was not in Giants plan.  That’s fine. But I’m also not particularly excited about a Wade /Davis platoon…..

Of course not. They're not your dollars, and therefore, not a consideration you would consider important.  Every business in the world considers it to be important, but it's the prerogative of fans who don't have to make multi million/hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

Belt's OPS dropped nearly 300 points from 2021 to 2022. He's no longer a fielder, though at one time he was a legitimately great fielder. Toronto wants him to be their designated hitter.

J. D. Davis' OPS last year was .857, beating out Brandon Belt by nearly 200 points. True, Late Night LaMonte had a .665 OPS last injury riddled year, but it was .805 the year before.

Look, I realize that the Giants are betting on the come in a brobdingnagian way. But whether they had Judge or Correa (or Harper or Stanton or Bryant), they'd still be betting on the come, with slightly better odds.

I like this team.  I am excited. Feels like 2021 to me.