I know, I know. It's only Spring Training.
But one can't help but be excited at how well the Giants are hitting in Spring Training and how many different players are getting involved.
Posey, Sandoval, Sanchez, DeRosa, Rowand -- ok, not Rowand. But heck, even Darren Ford hit one out! That was the first extra base hit since junior high!
Posey's homerun yesterday was something you really had to see to believe. Unfortunately, video of the homerun must have also contained U.S. Foreign Policy secrets as it is literally nowhere to be found on the internet. Not CSN.com, not ESPN.com, not MLB.com, not YouTube. I saw it on Sportscenter last night, so I know the footage exists. Sigh, just another example of the Man trying to put us down.
To circumvent the Man, I'll just describe what I saw, like in the days before moving pictures. Posey crushed what looked to be a high fastball with that incredibly even swing of his. Buster never seems to straight pull the ball, like Uribe used to do and you just knew it was gone (*respect*). But you could tell from Posey's arms how hard he clobbered this sucker. He hit it to dead center field, where the wall itself is 410 feet. Beyond the fence was a tall wall, and the ball cleared it. Let me put it this way, the Giant Glove at AT&T Park is 500 feet from home plate. 50 more feet and Posey's in the glove.
And let's be real -- where does someone hitting a ball into the glove and everyone yelling "OUT!" rank on the "List of things I'd love to see at AT&T Park but never will"? It has to be Top 3. Just being seeing a controversial replay on the jumbo-tron and Coughran's idea of showing a clip of Gandalf shouting "THOU SHALT NOT PASS" when Brian Wilson enters the game for a save.
"He crushed it," De La Rosa, the pitcher, said. "That's the longest home run [given up] in all my career." With a 2 for 2 day, Posey brought his Spring Training batting average up to .700.
Brandon Belt just joined the hit parade as well, launching his own tater just a few minutes ago. Those in the know now seem pretty sure that Belt will start in AAA Fresno, and that's fine with me. Belt has excelled immediately everywhere he's gone and Mike Krukow made a good point that you don't want a guy's first prolonged slump to occur when he first enters the Big Leagues. It can seriously mess with his confidence. He should spend some time in Fresno, work out any kinks he still has in his game and then ride into San Francisco on a shining snow-white steed, much like Buster did. When Belt comes up, they want him to be up for good.
And to anyone who's worried the Giants are going to keep Belt in Fres-yes too long "like they did with Posey", remind yourselves: we won the World Series. I'd say everything went according to plan. You have to give management the benefit of the doubt and trust they're making the right decision again.
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