The Giants have dropped five of their last six games after losing the series opener to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. They have made several more mistakes than played games, and are the only team in the league without a quality start at this point.
Often it has not been nice. While San Francisco might have been a pleasant surprise for today’s road trip, the reality of the situation is that the Giants do not have a roster that you would remove with the typical trailer.
Gabe Kapler has suffered some slip-ups, but as president of baseball, Farhan Zaidi declared Wednesday at 95.7 The Game’s “Damon, Ratto and Kolsky”, he is not worried about his manager.
“He currently has a challenging job,” said Zaidi, “because … this is a lineup, a roster, a pitching staff that needs to be actively managed. We do not have five working horses in the rotation that it’s going to throw seven innings where you just leave the ball to your keeper and you closer. He apparently has to aim a lot and match on the pitching side, on the position player side we try to use the whole roster. We Some are platonic , which means to cut some.
“And if you’re a manager and you have to make so many moves – as many moves as our roster kind of needs at the moment – every time you make a move … you make a lot of 55/45, 60/40 bets that ‘. t be investigated and if they do not work out, the onus kind of strikes you … But again, I look at some of our best wins this season and they are out of many the decisions he has made. So, we think this is the way to manage our roster that gives us the best chance to be competitive and win games, and I appreciate that he is ready to pull the trigger and be aggressive with many of these moves . “
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Kapler’s himself acknowledged most embarrassing mistake so far occurred in the extra week loss to the San Diego Padres, in which he forgot about the new rule requiring pitchers to go after a seizure after a mound visit. He owed it immediately after the loss and blamed the debt, which Zaidi found very satisfying.
“What happened to going out to try and get Tyler Rogers in that extra-innings game last week,” said Zaidi, “I think he owned it, it was just a mental overhaul. He’s run the game for a long time. time, had a long career and he just owns it.It was a tough inning, there were a lot of things happened.I’m sure a lot of things happened in the dugout.I just wrote that off as a kind of mental overhaul he owned and we’re turning the page. “
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Given the state of the Giants roster and the overall unusual gameplay this short season, it’s easy to see why Zaidi is willing to cut Kapler a bit slyly and give him the benefit of the doubt.
Kapler did not exactly get a winning hand, and it would be a major surprise if he turned it around right away.
