Putrid Giants Offense Tough to Watch (unless you are Sabean)

The Giants made another mediocre pitcher look like Cy Young yesterday evening – this time it was San Diego’s Chad Gaudin.  It must be nice after getting roughed up in your last three starts to face the Giants, get your ERA down nearly a full point, and just remember how it feels to make batters look silly.  The guy probably woke up this morning and felt like an elite pitcher.  Sabean says “you’re welcome.”

Seriously – this offense is pathetic.  Not a little questionable.  Not a few holes here or there.  Just outright pathetic.  The only three truly legitimate batters are Winn, Molina and Sandoval.  The rest of the lineup (Rowand and Lewis included) have zero discipline at the plate and never seem to capitalize on fat pitches.

It’s no surprise that this lineup can’t score runs.  Last year Molina led the Giants with 16 homeruns!  He’s on pace to get many more than that this year.  But other than Molina, there is no pop in this lineup.  (I do really like Winn, and Sandoval is obviously exciting as well – but neither of them even remotely qualify as guys that ‘have power’)

It’s a bunch of slapping Judy’s on this team, and it’s incredible that a guy (Sabean) gets paid big bucks to do nothing but get the right personnel on the field, and this is the best he can do!?  To get out-slugged by the freaking Padres?  There is a growing body of evidence that Sabean is the worst GM in all of baseball.

Haven’t Giants fans suffered enough watching impotent offense for the last three years?  At what point do the Giants decide to get a real offensive weapon in the offseason?  They clutch onto guys that are replaceable (like Brian Wilson) and have trade value, and insist on keeping critical holes (first base, second base) unaddressed.  And I’m sorry – but every time I see Rich Aurilia take an AB, I find it really insulting as a Giants fan.

This is a very poorly run organization from a personnel perspective.  Sabean is obviously not “the right guy.”  So when is someone going to step up and fix it?  This year could’ve very well been the one where the Giants made a move in the West.  And instead we’re watching a team that’s going to have to overachieve just to reach .500 (at which point I’m sure the organization will pat itself on the back for a job well done).

Competition – heard of it?  Offense – heard of it?  Gotta score more than 1 or 2 runs to win baseball games.

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