Original Draft Series – Team # 20 – San Francisco Giants

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Team #20: San Francisco Giants

General Managers(since 1994)

Bob Quinn Sr (1994-1996): 190-231
Brian Sabean (1997-Current): 1120-984

Team Performance

Playoffs			Division Finish
WC	League	Playoff App	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
0	1	4	3	6	3	3	1

All information is drawn from Baseball Reference.

Position	Name	Acquired	Years with Org.	Stats with Organization	Left?
C	Buster Posey	2008 – 1st Rd (5)	2	27 gm, .269/.299/.366, HR, 7 RBI, 10 R	Currently with Org.
1B	Pablo Sandoval	Int’l FA – 2003	7	261 gm, .319/.370/.513, 34 HR, 144 RBI, 7 SB, 139 R	Currently with Org.
2B	Matt Downs	2006 – 36th Rd	4	46 gm, .214/.291/.328, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 12 R	Currently with Org.
3B	Pedro Feliz	Int’l FA – 1994	13	874 gm, /.252/.288/.433, 109 HR, 418 RBI, 12 SB, 346 R	Free Agency – 10/29/07
SS	Emmanuel Burriss	2006 – 1st Rd (33)	4	156 gm, .262/.328/.301, HR, 31 RBI, 24 SB, 55 R	Currently with Org.
LF	John Bowker	2004 – 3rd Rd	6	183 gm, .238/.285/.394, 15 HR, 58 RBI, 2 SB, 47 R	Currently with Org.
CF	Fred Lewis	2002 – 2nd Rd	8	326 gm, .277/.355/.420, 16 HR, 81 RBI, 34 SB, 169 R	Traded to TOR – 4/15/10
RF	Nate Schierholtz	2003 – 2nd Rd	7	235 gm, .280/.323/.406, 7 HR, 54 RBI, 10 SB, 74 R	Currently with Org.
SP	Tim Lincecum	2006 – 1st Rd (10)	4	2008-2009 NL Cy Young Award Winner 2 All Star Appearances 48-19, 2.90 ERA, 789 K, 256 BB, 699.1 IP, 1.160 WHIP	Currently with Org.
SP	Francisco Liriano	Int’l FA – 2000	3	No Major League Appearances with Org.	Traded to MIN – 11/14/03
SP	Matt Cain	2002 – 1st Rd (25)	8	1 All Star Appearance 50-56, 3.39 ERA, 797 K, 379 BB, 972.1 IP, 1.229 WHIP	Currently with Org.
SP	Kevin Correia	2002 – 4th Rd	6	14-22, 4.59 ERA, 289 K, 168 BB, 398 IP, 1.492 WHIP	Free Agency – 10/14/08
SP	Jonathan Sanchez	2004 – 27th Rd	6	26-35, 4.49 ERA, 511 K, 253 BB, 497 IP, 1.408 WHIP	Currently with Org.
RP	David Aardsma	2003 – 1st Rd (22)	2	1-0, 11 gm, 5 K, 10 BB, 10.2 IP, 2.813 WHIP	Traded to CHC – 5/28/05
RP	Scott Linebrink	1997 – 2nd Rd	3	0-0, 11.57 ERA, 2 BB, 2.1 IP, 3.857 WHIP	Traded to HOU – 7/29/00
RP	Clay Hensley	2002 – 8th Rd	1	No Major League Appearances with Org.	Traded to SD – 7/13/03
RP	Bobby Howry	1994 – 5th Rd	3 + 1	2-6, 3.39 ERA, 46 K, 23 BB, 63.2 IP, 1.147 WHIP	Traded to CHW – 7/31/97
RP	Brian Wilson	2003 – 24th Rd	7	1 All Star Appearance 13-13, 106 SV, 3.49 ERA, 233 K, 93 BB, 219 IP, 1.320 WHIP	Currently with Org.
CL	Joe Nathan	1995 – 6th Rd	8	24-10, 4.12 ERA, 200 K, 142 BB, 266.1 IP, 1.378 WHIP	Traded to MIN – 11/14/03
BN	Travis Ishikawa (1B)	2002 – 21st Rd	8	206 gm, .266/.332/.409, 13 HR, 62 RBI, 3 SB, 68 R	Currently with Org.
BN	Carlos Villanueva (P)	Int’l FA – 2002	2	No Major League Appearances with Org.	Traded to MIL – 3/30/04
BN	Sergio Romo (RP)	2005 – 28th Rd	5	10-6, 2 SV, 2.94 ERA, 99 K, 24 BB, 95 IP, 0.937 WHIP	Currently with Org.
BN	Madison Bumgarner	2007 – 1st Rd (10)	3	0-0, 1.80 ERA, 10 K, 3 BB, 10 IP, 1.100 WHIP	Currently with Org.
BN	Jack Taschner (P)	1999 – 2nd Rd	9	8-4, 5.01 ERA, 124 K, 73 BB, 140 IP, 1.571 WHIP	Traded to PHI – 3/27/09
BN	Dan Runzier (P)	2007 – 9th Rd	3	2-0, 3.06 ERA, 32 K, 22 BB, 32.1 IP, 1.485 WHIP	Currently with Org.

June Amateur Draft

The Giants have clearly had some excellent success stories out of the draft with regard to pitching. Tim Lincecum is arguably the best pitcher in the majors right now, and leads an excellent pitching staff that also includes draft picks Matt Cain and Jonathan Sanchez. The relief core made from players they have drafted is excellent also, with 3 pitchers currently closers in the majors (Nathan, Aardsma, Wilson). Unfortunately, the success that they have had with pitching has not translated to the fielders. This is a team that has clearly not had a lot of success on their field with these fielders. With the exception of probably Buster Posey, none of the major league position players would be considered anything particularly exciting.

International Free Agency

The Giants have had a few international signees, with Pablo Sandoval probably having the most success for the Giants. Francisco Liriano has been mildly successful, but unfortunately was a part of the abortive A.J. Pierzynski trade that the Giants made back in 2003.  Clearly, this is an area that has not translated to a lot of success in development for the Giants.

Overall Grade

C. As with the Marlins, there are a few elite players here (Lincecum, Sandoval), but there’s a lot of players who quite simply are not Major League caliber, or barely that. The pitching staff for the Giants from this is very good, but the position players as a whole are so generally bad that I was very tempted to move them back down further in my rankings.