General Baseball Chatter Worth a Read
by edwzipper on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 11:45am
With the baseball season off to a satisfying start, some pieces with some stuff to chew on as the first weekend of the baseball season unfolds.
—Keith Law at espn.com with 10 players who are breakout candidates.
—Jon Heyman at si.com reserves some praise for Johnny Cueto of the Reds and a few other choice newcomers. I unabashedly express my love for Cueto. He’s swell.
—Scott Miller at sportsline joins the chorus in casting doubt about just what Barry Zito can do to halt his decline. The rest of us marvel at what an awful job Brian Sabean has turned in as the Giants’ GM in the last half dozen or so years.
—Mike Harmon at foxsports has some fantasy notes (more Cueto!) in a comprehensive read while Ken Rosenthal’s notebook touches, among other things, on the very real pitching concerns in Philly.
And, to return to Miller’s subject linked above, the Giants are really, really, really, terrible. They have a chance to be a special kind of bad. Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum may snap and kill Brian Sabean by the All-Star break. The killing would likely be found justified by a jury of bay area peers.