Giants Re-Sign Freddy Sanchez

Well that kills my Uggla to the Giants idea.

After giving up Alderson, this had to happen.

I would rather have Sanchez over Hudson. Hudson's best asset has been his defense, which has slipped dramatically over the last year or so.
I mean if the Bums are going to play Belliard over Hudson even after he recovered from his yearly injury, what's that say for Hudson.
I think Giants fans have been too quick to call Sanchez a bust. Can we say sample size? When healthy he hits over .300 and if anything AT&T will help his numbers since what it takes away from in power, it makes up for in average.

Giant's had let him go? The trade wasn't great as it was, but to let Freddy go would be insane.

Well, at least they shaved off 2mil rather than picking up the option. Still not happy with the original trade.

Maybe he'll have a bounce back year. At least one can hope...

@start wearing purple

Freddy isn't the power source they're looking for obviously. He is the "on base" guy. Or at least used to be capable of it.

Gotta move runners over and create RBI situations, that's what Freddy Sanchez can (or used to) do.

That .295 OBP is exactly what the Giants need.

@661dodgerblue

hahahahahaha, he fits right in with the ridiculous amount of hackers in this ballclub.

Classic Sabean: Take a bad bet and double down on it. Fred Sanchez is not real likely to provide power or OBP this team needs if he can even stay healthy. For those that think I am being too harsh his last full season produced .292 wOBA so now we are stuck hoping the 2007 Sanchez shows up for both 2010 & 2011. Well at least the contract is under 3 years and under $20MM but it is still a bad, bad bet to improve things.

Beltre seems perfect for them. Thing is, they need another big bat somewhere. If you move Sandoval over to 1st, that severely limits your options in terms of acquiring a new bat. You'd either have to take a huge gamble (like, say, trading for J.J. Hardy and benching Renteria), or do something silly like bench Fred Lewis and sign Jason Bay.

I think the more likely scenarios are these: 1) they acquire a 1B bat and keep Sandoval at 3B, or 2) they trade for a 3B like Mike Lowell and make a sacrifice on defense.

This is a decent move...they got him cheaper than his option yr.

They could still go for Uggla and put him at 3B or 1B or maybe even LF

Anyone think the Giants would go for a Thames for rp swap?

Surprised to hear Giant's fans so down on Freddie. 100AB's is too small to trash a player who has Always been solid, and Always been healthy; and now he has something to prove. The Giants, IMO, will be glad they got him.

The Only way Mike Lowell goes anywhere is if the Red Sox by some fluke land Adrian Gonzales. With a hip that is finally healthy, his fine offensive #'s will improve, his defense could approach his GG standard, and he will have a terrific contract year in Boston.

The thing that concerns me most about Sanchez is that his season line looks like he bounced back from a down 2008, but really he had a good April, then one ridiculous week to end May. The rest of the season his OBP was below .300 and his OPS was around .625.

"I like this signing. A former batting champ."

That's a pretty awful argument. Billy Mueller, Nomar Garciaparra, Bernie, Williams, Frank Thomas, and many others are former batting champs I wouldn't want on my team. Barry Zito and Bartolo Colon are former Cy Young award winner, again, wouldn't want them on my team. Awards won should be viewed as completely meaningless.

"yea of course you wouldnt want bill mueller or nomar or any of those guys right now. they are a lot older, freddy sanchez is only 31."

You quite neatly evaded my point, which is why I added in Barry Zito's Cy Young award (surely Giants fans would understand that). Sanchez won the title in 2006. The next year his OPS dropped 70 points and his AVG dropped 40 points, the year after that he managed a .669 OPS which included a .298 OBP, a full 27 points higher than his AVG. Then last year, well he may have had only 102 ABs with the Giants but anyone who studies stats will tell you over 50 data points is significant. So really what does a "former" batting champ have to do with an argument of Sanchez being a good signing?

Wow overpaid. This deal makes castillos seem not as bad. At least castillo switch hits and has a much better obp than sanchez.

Ah, Sabeanmetrics, the brilliant system that will result in the team paying Barry Zito, Aaron Rowand, and Edgar Renteria a combined $39.5 million in 2010, or approximately half of the likely total payroll!

Here is a checklist of the crucial points used in Sabeanmetrics for free agent signings as they relate to Freddy Sanchez...
1) Over 30? Check.
2) Known as a "professional hitter"? Check.
3) Known to have "veteran savvy"? Check.
4) Hardly ever walks? Check.
5) Lack of power? Check.
6) Lack of speed? Check
7) Paid based as if he will replicate one good season from the past? Check.
8) Was the one good season 3-5 years ago? Check.
9) Did player earn some near-meaningless award such as all-star or gold glove? Check.
10) Was player signed for twice as much as anyone else would have offered before the market even developed? Check.

This one has them all! And now we get two more years of Sabean. If this team doesn't make the playoffs in either of the next two years with the pitching we have, will *that* finally be enough to get rid of him?

I like Sanchez but he just got off the DL. I'd give him 6mill and if he doesn't take it you can slowly raise it.