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g55s
We need this! He can start until Hunter Pence comes back then be a nice bat off the bench.
When Bumgarner is the best PH you have… something needs to be done!
Rally Weimaraner
Bumgarner has a better batting line than Pablo Sandoval this year.
JoeyPankake
If Bum gets hurt pinch hitting the Giants season is over. As much as I enjoy watching him hit, it isn’t worth the risk.
Ray Ray
He’s not made of glass, he is a professional athlete. Hitting is not exactly wrestling bears or swimming with sharks.
JoeyPankake
Pretty easy to break a hand or some fingers batting. Vogelsong will tell you all about it. Pence and Aoki missed significant time this year due to being hit. You don’t need to get mauled by a bear to miss the rest of the season.
pileofsandwich
58 PA to 412. Kinda easier to have a higher average with less appearances.
JoeyPankake
About time. That lineup has been brutal lately. Lucky to get out of STL with a win. This move or a similar one needed to be made a month ago.
Slipknot37
Nice trade for the giants, but was this a good trade for the reds?
raef715
a 24 year old AA reliever with lots of k’s and lots of walks…
Slipknot37
Sounds like if he worked on his command more, he’d be a great reliever in the big league in the future
raef715
but you can say that about a lot of 24 year old minor leaguers…and how many do?
mfdesquire
Giving him away for nothing would have been a good deal for the Reds. If he plays most of the time for the rest of the year, the Reds would be on the hook for $8M next year for Byrd. If they deliberately bench him (so he doesn’t get the necessary PAs), they risk owing him the $$ anyway (unfair practice unless they can show he wasn’t their best LF option, which he is).
The Reds stink this year, and they will be average at best next year (in 2017, if their young starting pitching comes along, they may be quite good, as all the veterans are still under control). They need Byrd like a hole in the head. They certainly don’t need to be paying him millions of dollars. Anything they got is a plus.
raef715
that could get a little tricky with the vesting option, couldnt it?
g55s
He needs 168 more ABs I believe. Hard to see him getting it when Pence returns.
ssf1234
It could be very close.. You never know with obliques.. Could take up to 6 weeks..
double
It’s actually 162 plate appearances. Byrd would get around 4.2 plate appearances per start, so he’d get that with around 38 starts and a few pinch hitting appearances. The Giants have 42 games left. It shouldn’t be hard to justify playing Byrd no more than 6 out of 7 games. He isn’t hitting righties this year. So a platoon with Blanco would make sense.
gilgunderson
Should at least be an upgrade from Justin Maxwell’s bat. Good move.
dodgersneedrings
Good move for the giants
blake
This is good for the Giants. Byrd has great success against their division rival.
ChadSmooth
Good move for both squads. Giants looking strong for a playoff push if they can get healthy. Best team this decade. Gregor and Byrd going to platoon or?
Paul Michaels
Would imagine so. Byrd hasn’t done very well this year against righties but has been very solid against lefties.
kled
As a Dodger fan I am not happy with this move.
obsessivegiantscompulsive
FYI: Bochy has already said that, in this current configuration, Aoki will play RF with Byrd playing LF, because Aoki had played RF regularly last season.
Seems like a good stopgap measure to cover Pence being out for longer than expected (2 weeks don’t seem enough to heal “moderate” oblique strain). And when Pence does return, Byrd is great bat off the bench, and if they make the WS again, can play some DH.
Though, ideally, we should have gotten someone who mashes RHP, not LHP, because that is the area the Giants have had the worse problem beating this season.