July is over, Giants back with no offense

Here we go again. After fooling everyone into thinking they actually had an offense in the month of July, the Giants roll out the month of August by basically get swept.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Billy Wagner is still a piece of crap they would have went 1-5 on this road trip.  The Giants offense was completely awful in the series against the Braves and subpar against the Rockies. They were 1 for 32 with runners in scoring position.

What makes it worse is that this series was suppose to tell Giants fans if the Giants were actually playoff contenders. If the season ended today the Giants would win the wild card and would be facing the Braves in the first round.  Not good for the Giants about what they just did there in the past four days.

After watching that series I have very little faith the Giants could get past the first round if they have to face the Braves.

Let’s be positive and think about if the Giants did actually make the playoffs and face the Braves.  How does Bochy set up the pitching rotation?  Personally I would consider a rotation of Cain, Zito, and Lincecum in that order if the weather is hot like it has been in Atlanta. That would give Timmy the first game at home in more conducive weather for his success.




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The rumor out there is that the Giants are still looking at Guillen.  After considering Guillen and looking at his numbers, I am not sure how he helps the Giants.  If they were to play him then that would mean that Huff would move back to 1B and Ishikawa would be back on the bench.  The good news is that Bochy would stop running around with 13 pitchers on the 25 man roster and burning out his position players in the toughest stretch of the year.  The bad news is that I am not sure that Guillen is that much better than Ishikawa, offensively.

Guillen has 3x as many at bats as Ishikawa does.  Personally, I would rather have the better defense and higher OBP than have Guillen.  To me, Guillen is a similar player to Uribe, the numbers are very comparable, but one that strikes out more and is less valuable as he only plays the outfield and the Giants have enough water buffalo’s already out there.

Travis Ishikawa vs. Jose Guillen

Year	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP
2010	16	34	10	0	3	20	0	0	9	23	.293	.341	.457	.798	108	53	3

Year	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP
2010	46	101	17	2	16	62	1	0	27	84	.255	.314	.429	.743	101	170	9