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Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
No, Mr. Bonds, I Expect You To Sit On The Bench And Watch Your Team Lose: Dodgers 4, Giants 1
MLB.com team home pages can be neatly divided into two categories: teams with recognizable franchise players (such as the Dodgers, Angels, Red Sox, Diamondbacks, or Padres) have pictures of those franchise players. (The Yankees appear to be an exception to this rule.) Teams lacking either hope or franchise players (such as the Brewers), on the other hand, tend to have blank headers or ones involving the ballpark. Such is the current Giants mast, lacking even so much as a photo of Barry Bonds. With both Moises Alou and Barry Bonds on the DL, this is a team the Dodgers need to beat mercilessly, and that they did yesterday, 4-1. OP again performed brilliantly, and somehow Choi managed to get a homer off Giants starter Brett Tomko. Choi, despite his homer, is still ice-cold with a .158 average over a teensy 19 AB. On a brighter note for the Giants, their bullpen held together quite creditably, not giving up a single run in 5.1 IP.
I expect this year's division race to go roughly the same as last year's; once fortified with Bonds and Alou, the Giants will proceed to do much better, but minus his OBP juju and the bored, purposeful sneer he brings to the plate, San Francisco is a team at sea.
Update: It appears some former Giants flops have done well for their new teams. Ricky Ledee, a midseason pickup with San Francisco last year who batted .233/.337/.403 and 7 HR in 173 AB, is hitting .429/.429/.714 in 14 AB with the Dodgers, including a .375/.375/.625 line against San Francisco. Neifi "Nerfy" Perez, the former Giant turned Cub, is hitting .412 in the Windy City after a mammoth 17 AB.
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