Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 20, 2008
Giant Headache

6-4-2 Opines on the plight of the Giants this season as a AAA squad of Cubs beats the San Francisco starting lineup:

It'll be a long year in San Francisco. Bruce Bochy might want some Excedrin.

In an article I researched for SportingNews.com, while spring records don't mean much, teams that play extremely poorly in the exhibition season tend to play poorly during the regular season, too.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:36 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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If a manager really wanted a winning record in spring training, I think they can attain it if they want it badly enough. Of course, it would mean things like playing your starters later in the game when they will face the opponents' minor leaguers. In a highly leveraged game situation in the spring, the manager is likely to bring in the marginal pitchers, so he can see how they react to stress. But if he wanted to win the spring game badly enough, he could bring in his closer instead. Not knowing managers' strategies for spring games is what makes the correllation between spring and regular season difficult.

Posted by: C Johnson at March 20, 2008 02:27 PM

San Fran is so politically correct that no one will complain anyway.

Posted by: Leco at March 21, 2008 06:15 PM
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