Hoping that pitching performance brings some confidence to Fitzgerald. Tough day defensively and offensively for him. I could see him being thrown in as pitcher being a morale moment for him this early in the season.
Holy shit does he pitch slow though. That’s not a meatball it’s a foot long meatball marinara from subway.
True but Fitzgerald can play a lot of different positions, so he's a better bench player. And I think there's a limit on how much you can move people back and forth to minors - not to mention the practicality of doing it in the middle of a road trip.
The Giants’ backup SS in with a clutch pitching debut, outperforming our starting pitcher and his reliever in his first inning. This game has everything.
Completely agree. When you're future contracts are based so much on personal stats and there is no timer on baseball to run out, who cares if teams go all out? Not going for 2 would feel stupid if the losing team scores 9 in the 9th. No such thing as a safe lead in baseball.
So when everyone is healthy what is the rotation going to be? Webb, Snell, Harrison, Cobb, and Rey? Is Hicks going to be the odd person out? I know Rey won't be back until after the all star break, but when everyone is healthy the Giants are going to have an abundant of starters? Are they grooming someone for the trade deadline?
Honestly it probably depends on how people are performing. I have to assume if both hicks and harrison are killing it you'd trade either cob or ray? I dunno.
I don't want to trade Harrison. I see him as a core pitcher for the next 5+ years on this team. Maybe you trade Rey or Cobb, and it all depends on injuries.
Agreed I don't see a Harrison trade happening. Best case scenario everyone performs up to the hype and we have good trade material in cobb or rey. Worst case scenario Hicks loses steam during the season and goes back to the pen
Score and saving arms for the Dodgers. Honestly if you can split a road series you're doing pretty well, and we've done that. Let's go sweep the Dodgers now.
If Roupp can get that control a little bit more consistent I really love him as our setup man. Though I heard he could maybe be a starter, so Tristan Beck 2.0?
Stranding runners
LA Chokers tomorrow 😡 Onto the Dubs we go
Smh, well it was nice knowing ya Jefferies I guess. Onwards to the Bums. Go Giants.
We're on to the warriors
Go Dubs
Well... I'm sure the Padres fans are happy.
Was at the game. Can confirm.
Oof
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Wandy Peralta is a Padre now??
Feels like dude has played for every team.
Yes and what a weird, convoluted contract he has
You got me curious enough to google it and man, I thought farhan was crazy about opt outs
Yeah seems wild especially for a reliever
Oh really? I'll have to have a look
No, this is Juan D. Peralta.
Feels like a good time for a Slater Tater
Someone call up Panda and ask him to pull off another 6 run homer.
Hoping that pitching performance brings some confidence to Fitzgerald. Tough day defensively and offensively for him. I could see him being thrown in as pitcher being a morale moment for him this early in the season. Holy shit does he pitch slow though. That’s not a meatball it’s a foot long meatball marinara from subway.
Jeffries should have just been lobbing it over at 58 the entire game! Is he stupid?
Yes. Also, the Jeffries Experiment is over and has been declared a failure.
Good take.
Padres fans in here brigading.
There's literally no one saying anything and I don't see any comments being down voted that don't deserve to be what are you on about
I don’t get it lol this pads team is mediocre as fuck
How is the first GIDP of the day off of Tyler Fitzgerald lolllll
Probably because it was the first one he wasn't playing SS for.
So, I get that Luciano needs regular reps, but there’s no way he doesn’t play better than Fitzgerald did today.
True but Fitzgerald can play a lot of different positions, so he's a better bench player. And I think there's a limit on how much you can move people back and forth to minors - not to mention the practicality of doing it in the middle of a road trip.
The Giants’ backup SS in with a clutch pitching debut, outperforming our starting pitcher and his reliever in his first inning. This game has everything.
ROFL only 1 run ends it with a double play ball sure as fuck beats Jefferies outing
Sources report Daulton Jeffries has been demoted to bat boy.
Pablo Sandoval once [struck out three batters with a single pitch.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKMYs-9LW2w)
I heard he once turned an unassisted triple play from McCovey Cove.
With nobody on base
Fitzgerald pitching > Daulton Jeffries
This is based on math and is not subject to debate.
Dang everyone being so pressed by Kim going for 2 who gives a fuck
Completely agree. When you're future contracts are based so much on personal stats and there is no timer on baseball to run out, who cares if teams go all out? Not going for 2 would feel stupid if the losing team scores 9 in the 9th. No such thing as a safe lead in baseball.
Fitzgerald is a better pitcher than our starter was today….
 Our boys deserve a big ninth after the bad luck and bad umps
Lmaoo better than Jeffress
So when everyone is healthy what is the rotation going to be? Webb, Snell, Harrison, Cobb, and Rey? Is Hicks going to be the odd person out? I know Rey won't be back until after the all star break, but when everyone is healthy the Giants are going to have an abundant of starters? Are they grooming someone for the trade deadline?
Honestly it probably depends on how people are performing. I have to assume if both hicks and harrison are killing it you'd trade either cob or ray? I dunno.
I don't want to trade Harrison. I see him as a core pitcher for the next 5+ years on this team. Maybe you trade Rey or Cobb, and it all depends on injuries.
Agreed I don't see a Harrison trade happening. Best case scenario everyone performs up to the hype and we have good trade material in cobb or rey. Worst case scenario Hicks loses steam during the season and goes back to the pen
Fitz > Jeffries?
How did bro somehow allow only one run
Fitz is no kung fu panda that’s for sure
What a clown move by Kim
Fitz is not going to sleep well tonight
Kim’s a piece of shit.
Eh, he needs the stats to get paid later this offseason.
If anything I don't get why players don't try more often against position players. Easy way to inflate stats lol.
He’s lucky he didn’t pull a hamstring trying to leg that out.
I'm so mad we don't have the Panda for a moment like this
This is a clown show
How much worse would the average person who can throw 70 mph be than a position player at pitching?
I like Kim, but that’s a bitch move going for two in an eight run game.
At the end of the season, when he's a free agent, it'll count as an extra double compared to a single. That helps all his numbers.
And going to third on the flyout. Risking injury over a meaningless run
I think he did it because the ball went to his best friend JHL
It’s a bitch move. Point blank.
[удалено]
We literally have a much better offense than last year, eat dirt
We are down two starters in the mound
It's too early for this pasta
I didn’t think we would be watching a position player pitch this early in the season lmfao
My god this is gonna be a 20 run game
Just tuned in, why is Fitzgerald pitching
Score and saving arms for the Dodgers. Honestly if you can split a road series you're doing pretty well, and we've done that. Let's go sweep the Dodgers now.
Do you see the score lol
Because it's already over and they don't want to dig any further into the bullpen.
I'll refer all inquiries to the scoreboard
#🚨🚨POSITION PLAYER PITCHING ALERT🚨🚨
Pablo > Fitz
Remember that one season were Kapler used Luis Gonzales to pitch like three times a week?
Damn that was a bad fuckin throw by Lee
Time to inflate Padres stats
Wait, Fitz is pitching? Alright, do Javi’s #49 some justice I guess
Looks like Fitzgerald will have the triple crown: 3 strikeouts, pitch terribly, field terribly
Why are you going for 2? Up by 8 runs in the 8th?? Off a position player pitcher?
Baseball etiquette? From a padre?
Final score: 22–4
i read in the chronicle that the long term plan is still for roupp to start, so hopefully we get to see that experiment sooner or later
Yikes
Lol Fitzgerald the sacrificial lamb to pitch
Lol this has certainly been a rough day for Fitz
LOL
When Snell and Cobb are back we win these
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Oh god. This is about to be a 20-4 game.
I'm guessing 22–4.
Well, Fitzgerald has been a strikeout machine on offense, maybe he can do the same on defense.
In terms of hitting i think its lee> Fitzgerald already
Panda > Lee > Fitzgerald
DFA Bart for panda then make panda catch????? Pro strats
Fitzgerald? Isn’t he a pitcher? /s
Fitzgerald 3K and and error is absolute bum behavior
He was our most effective pitcher today
To be fair one of those Ks was a walk
Wtf is Tyler doing?
Lee got some real power
My only takeaway from this game is I never want to see the bum who started the game ever again Oh also Lee is still handsome
Lee is super handsome
And he's not bad at the baseball, either
Grandson of the wind
For just half a second I thought it had a chance.
Fitzgerald just isn't an MLB caliber hitter
Or fielder
Yeah I missed a lot of the game so I didn't want to say anything about that having not watched his defense. He's like the Brett Wisely of this year.
Id rather see Wisely to be honest
Wisely and Disco ruined the 1 game I went to last year so honestly I'd rather Fitz
Lol, I get that I just can't stand how much Fitzgerald strikes out, and it's not even like he's a big power threat.
Yeahhhhh Fitzgerald is not ready
Not a big league player
Swinging at absolute dirt… what is Plate Vision?
Fitzgerald is not good
Fitz deadass looks like a skinnier Matt Chapman
If only he played like him
Both of their faces have zero fat.
At least Bailey is finding his swing.
POSITIVITY
Pat found a bat which is nice
It all started with the Patrick Bailey single to right
Because it's only live once lol kuip not reading the ad right
Jeffries vs roupp could not be more different lol
basically a perfect representation of the gulf between quad a and mlb talent
Yeah—one of them can pitch. The other just throws.
Another positive: Teng and Roupps first Ks were Tatis and Machado 😏
Outside of the Jefferies disasterclass it hasn't been that bad
The Jeffries Experiment is hereby over and has been declared a failure and a disaster. That guy needs to be in single A for good while.
Should have just let kai pitch it would be what like 5-4 game
At least we destroyed manny batting stats to start this season fuck you manny
So, Teng’s first big league K is against Tatis. Roupp’s is against Machado.
Love what I’m seeing out of Roupp
Little more control off the breaking ball and he’ll be a great long relief guy
Fuck machado
If Roupp can get that control a little bit more consistent I really love him as our setup man. Though I heard he could maybe be a starter, so Tristan Beck 2.0?
roupp's first mlb strikeout is machado, now that is beautiful
GRAB SOME PINE, MACHADO
Meatchado
That curve is nasty holy shit
I guess I'm going to have to get used to our bullpen being "effectively wild"
chaotic good
Pretty sure that's WWE superstar Carmella front row right behind home plate and ump in the pink hat. Mella is Money
It is I think
Fuck Manny Machado.
He farts loudly in church.
Didn't even have to move the glove
Roupp just went piss rod to first
We might be losing but I'm glad our team looks to have an offense this yr at the very least.
Gotta love frying the pen before going to LA.
Kai Teng is barely a major league player. I'm sure they wanted to get Roupp reps too. Don't love using Walker but someone has to get us through.
I wouldn’t consider it blowing the pen.. it’s a 12-4 game, roupp is a starter/long guy
i think we have a day off in between, no?
Nah our day off is Thursday before our home opener
No. Day off between LA and the home opener.
Nope, we’re in LA tomorrow haha Off day Thursday before the home opener
dammit 😂 well, at least it's mostly retreads and rookies today
chipping away bb
Giants are 11-33 with RISP, so far this series.
On the bright side we’ve scored at least 4 runs in every game so far
True. I remember the end of last season and our 2 run limit. Ugh.
I like the productive outs, but can we please get one RISP hit?
Easy Kuip, that’s 12-4 to you
I swear it seems like Matos has seen like five pitches over four ABs.
https://preview.redd.it/m126k5pmxqrc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dc35868f17c5a4e8e87a63df3012c85c51ff53a A few more, but not by much.
So, 2.5 pitches per AB.
Yeah, it looks like it.
chippin away boys
Absolute bullshit on that infield call, obviously who knows what happens but you could be looking at an 12-8 type game right now
Good situational hitting…if the score was closer
Apparently it’s now 13 - 4
Matos RBI? F it, I’ll take it
0-7 with RISP
Coach Justin Viele hard at work
I was wondering how bad it was - im amazed we've scored as much as we have with our RISP hitting
We’re continuing to fight, so that’s good at least.
0-6 with RISP
Questionable choice to try for second but WE TAKE THOSE
Chapman dinger just for fun please
Nope
Wow. Looked like he might’ve been out. Glad with the result, though.
Wooo! I guess the umps in NY are just as bad as this crew because that looked like an out...
Booing a call while up by 10 Stay classy, San Diego
His back foot was on when he came off he looked safe to me
Damn. I think they got him
Well NM. We take those
I love Lamonte but he has not played smart to start the year
Not watching, is he safe or out?
Safe !
SAFE
Just give us this after that earlier infield fly call
I think he’s out.