Freddy Sanchez

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Marjor Leagues: – The Toronto Blue Jays have placed their closer, Sergio Santos on the Disabled List with right shoulder inflammation according to Vinnie Duber of MLB.com. “He didn’t feel quite right in that save situation last night,” manager John Farrell said. “And as the evening progressed, [...]

The San Francisco Giants have an outstanding young rotation which features pitchers like Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez, Ryan Vogelsong and Tim Lincecum. The first three are set to become free agents after the 2012 season, and Lincecum the year after that. When this happens the Giants will have to make some difficult decisions. As Ken Rosenthal [...]

At the beginning of the season, I wouldn’t have doubted that the Giants would at least get back to the NLCS, but as of today, you start to wonder if they’ll even make it to the post season. Not because they suck or they have been playing horribly, but because pretty much the entire team is injured [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major Leagues: – According to Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, Giants GM, Brian Sabean, is worried about second baseman Freddy Sanchez and his shoulder surgery. “For me, personally, it doesn’t look good,” he said. It looks like Sanchez could be out for the reminder [...]

Here’s the latest from FOXSports’ Ken Rosenthal: – Rookie catcher Hank Conger, could be the team’s everyday catcher. He has started three of the last four games prior to today’s game and manager Mike Scioscia has been working hard with him. According to Rosenthal, Conger has responded well and the pitchers love working with him. Besides [...]

The San Francisco Giants and second baseman Freddy Sanchez have agreed to a one-year, $6 million contract extension according to a baseball source close to Jerry Crasnick of ESPN. Sanchez is finishing up the second-year of a two year $12 million deal.  The new deal will extend him one more season at the same salary [...]

7/3 10:52: Buster Olney of ESPN tweets, “Heard this: There have been no recent trade talks between the Giants and Brewers about Prince Fielder.” Olney adds this in his ESPN Insider blog: It’s hard to envision Milwaukee having this conversation without Matt Cain coming up as a deal breaker. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t enough; neither is Madison Bumgarner, [...]

The San Francisco Giants desperately need to find offensive pop, but they won’t mortgage the farm if it means the player they get is only good for a couple of months. “We are not interested in free agents,” Sabean told Jeff Fletcher of FanHouse. “We don’t want to rent players. That doesn’t make sense for us. [...]

Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle says the Giants are not ready to call up prospect Buster Posey despite the team’s poor offense and the injury to Mark DeRosa. The team is getting creative with the pieces they have including the possibility of shifting Freddy Sanchez to third base and moving Pablo Sandoval to first. GM [...]

Here’s a few pieces of news from Glenn Dickey of the San Francsico Chronicle Examiner: The Giants are hurting offensively and Dickey says that Jermaine Dye in unsigned free-agent. Dye however is a defensive liability in the outfield and his asking price is too high. Bringing up Buster Posey from Triple-A Fresno to play first and shift [...]