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Arroyo off to hot start, eyeing jump to majors in 2017
Arroyo saw his batting average drop from .304 during his days in Triple-A two seasons ago to .274 in Richmond last season, but those sort of growing pains are expected when going from single-A ball to Double-A. Arroyo spoke to the Minor League Podcast’s Cody Pasby for the show’s very first episode, labeling himself ‘ready-to-go’…
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Bruce Bochy reveals Giants’ spring training rotation
Giants manager Bruce Bochy announced the order of his starting pitchers for the first week of spring training action to reporters on Wednesday.
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Buster Olney: Hall of Fame should make unprecedented move and induct Kruk and Kuip together
ESPN’s Buster Olney believes the time has come to induct the pair into Cooperstown, arguing in his weekly roundup that the Baseball Hall of Fame should scrap its rules about accepting only one broadcaster per year.
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Kuiper: Poor rankings of Giants’ minor-league system ‘usually a bunch of crap’
Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper isn’t buying Baseball America’s most recent list of Top 100 Prospects, that features just one player in the Giants’ farm system, pitcher Tyler Beede, ranked 89th.
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Giants reliever Will Smith has MRI, shut down with elbow inflammation
Slated to take over the role as the Giants’ primary left-handed setup man in 2017, Will Smith suffered a setback on Wednesday.
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MLB players’ union agrees to pitchless intentional walks
The players’ association has agreed to Major League Baseball’s proposal to have intentional walks without pitches this year.
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Murph: 6 Giants observations from Scottsdale
Shortstop Brandon Crawford: If you expected Crawford to tell us that his error in Game 4 of the NLDS fueled him all off-season, and it’s his primary motivation in 2017 to avenge that bad feeling, expect again.
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Lakers wanted to add Bob Myers to front office [report]
Myers was promoted in September from GM to president of basketball operations. In reports the surfaced in July, Myers was also considered to conductor who ultimately got Kevin Durant to leave OKC for Golden State.
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Lopez: The Giants told us we weren’t coming back
Lopez, Sergio Romo and Santiago Casilla — all three important pieces that won the ball club championships — were sent packing. The Giants blew 32 saves last season including a free fall ninth inning against the Cubs that eliminated them for the postseason.
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Giants must forget disastrous end to 2016 to have chance at NL West in 2017
The Giants ended their 2016 season in about as heart-breaking a fashion as possible. However, despite many players suffering their first-ever postseason series loss, Ray Woodson says they’ll need to put them all entirely behind them to have as successful a 2017 as possible.
