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he's not going to be a great player

in Balance Discussion Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:20 am
by elaine95 • Farseer | 399 Posts | 3990 Points

The San Francisco Giants announced Monday Bobby Evans will no longer be the team's general manager.San Francisco Giants SFGiantsOFFICIAL: Senior Vice President amp;amp; General Manager Bobby Evans will step down from his general manager duties Andrew McCutchen Jersey , effective immediately.#SFGiants jpaQwXf2TaHenry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle first reported the news.Giants CEO Larry Baer said the team expects Bruce Bochy to return for the 2019 season, according to Schulman.Since he is signed through 2019, the team plans to offer Evans another job within the organization, but he will also be free to seek employment elsewhere.San Francisco entered Monday with a 72-84 record, the fourth-worst in the National League.Evans has been with the Giants since 1994 but moved to the GM role in 2015 after Brian Sabean was promoted to executive vice president.While the team won three World Series titles in five seasons from 2010 to '14, things have gone south over the past four years.The squad has a 307-335 record in this stretch http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-tony-watson-jersey , with just one playoff appearance that ended with a National League Division Series loss in 2016. The 68-94 record from 2017 represented the Giants' worst season in over 30 years.While San Francisco dealt with a plethora of injuries over the past two years with Madison Bumgarner, Buster Posey, Johnny Cueto and others missing significant time, there was not enough depth to overcome these losses to find success on the field.Bob Nightengale of USA Today noted the Giants will try to replace Evans with two different hires:Bob Nightengale BNightengaleThe #SFGiants planing to hire twopeople for front office with Bobby Evans out: a Vice President of baseball operations and a GeneralManager. The Giants will be flooded with applicantsAlthough the team said it will immediately conduct a search for the next GM, there are conflicting reports about a potential top candidate.According to Nightengale, former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti is the current favorite to take the job in San Francisco. However Gregor Blanco Jersey , Schulman reported that Colletti will not be taking the job. Hannah Foslien/Getty ImagesCleveland Indians outfielder Bradley Zimmer will be out eight to 12 months after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Friday.The team announced the news on Saturday, noting that the procedure was to repair a torn labrum.Zimmer hurt his shoulder while taking batting practice for the Triple-A Columbus Clippers on June 11.Indians manager Terry Francona expressed his disappointment for the 25-year-old, via Jordan Bastian of MLB.com:"I feel so bad for him. He's such a good kid. I don't have any doubt鈥攈e'll come back from this. He's not a pitcher. It's just missing the developmental time. But, OK, so if his clock changes a little bit, that doesn't mean he's not going to be a great player."Since being drafted in the first round back in 2014 http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-pablo-sandoval-jersey , Zimmer had been a highly touted prospect in Cleveland's farm system for years before getting his feet wet in the majors last year. He hit .241/.307/.385 with eight home runs, 15 doubles, two triples, 18 stolen bases and 39 RBI in 101 games in his first year.While those numbers don't jump off the page, he was given an opportunity to be the Tribe's starting center fielder this year. However, he hit just .226/.281/.330 with two home runs Duane Kuiper Jersey , five doubles and nine RBI in 34 games. He also missed a few weeks in May because of a left rib contusion.Zimmer was optioned to the minors on June 5 to try to get his bat back on track.There's still plenty of time for Zimmer to show why he was a first-round pick. Unfortunately for him, his quest to establish himself as a major leaguer has been put on hold as he now has to rehab from shoulder surgery, an injury that not only ends his season, but will affect him going into 2019 as well.

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