The season begins for the Giants one week from today. Looking back over spring training I do not believe the club is ready. The team they field next Friday in Arizona will not be the same as the one that plays on June 1st..
At the start of spring the Giants envisioned the following starters:
1b - Huff Has had an ok spring; not great looks like a .260 hitter
2b - Sanchez Still has not recovered from injuries and may never play again
3b - Sandoval Came around after a few weight issues and no winter baseball
ss - Crawford Has done a good job to keep his spot in the lineup
lf - Cabrera Started great and then cooled but still a very good spring
cf - Pagan And I thought Rowand was bad!
rf - Schierholtz Lots of injuries and lack of production keeps us guessing
c - Posey He can still hit. He's back and they need him.
The tragedy is that this will probably be the starters next Friday except that Burriss who has done a very good job this spring will replace Sanchez.
The chances of the Giants with their current line-up of out scoring last years team look slim. Remember it was in September with a healthy Beltran that the Giants began to score more runs to make the disastrous run producing numbers look a littler better.
Homer Sweeney
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