by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–Right now the word weakly means the Giants offense right now despite dropping a 12 spot on the Rockies on Wednesday it’s pretty clear it’s their still scuffling to put some runs together and it looks like Hunter Pence is starting to come out of it but maybe Pablo Sandoval will decide that’s it’s a better idea to just forget about everything and go hitting and not worry about contracts.

As of this morning a new issue came up Angel Pagan in his diognostic research on his knee we all saw it last year what it’s like not to have him in the line up maybe he got a little soreness that he can heal up and clean up. Also this one is concerning pitchers, if a pitcher has Tommy John surgery in the first place you have a mechanical problem, if you have a second Tommy John surgery you have a coachability problem.

You didn’t learn a thing from the first one, you went out and did things the same way and despite the fact their able to wrap the tendons, put titanian screws and their stronger than an original tendon was, it’s still possible to destroy it if you don’t go out and use proper bio mechanics in pitching.

It is beyond me how Major League teams can invest in a quarter of a billion dollars in a pitching staff but their unwilling to spend $100,000 a year on someone with a masters or a PhD in bio mechanics to be on staff to make sure that investment actually pays off.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy says he doesn’t want to have anything to do with Giants thrid baseman Pablo Sandoval’s agent, Sandoval changed agents last season and the agent has been fairly pushy in terms of trying to get the Giants to take a look at the new reality and understand what Pablo is probably going to be worth in the open market if he goes out there.

He was asking for five years for $90 million total, at $18 million a year average, honestly in this current market place considering that gives you fiscal certainty for a five year period forward. The only thing that you have to decide before you agree to a deal does Pablo have the discipline to maintain the weight and conditioning that he put himself through this year?

A’s pitcher Scott Kazmir getting $22 million is going to be a bargain, the world changed about a year and half ago, when this latest round of TV contracts came in and teams started reeiving upwards of $35 million a year and the national contract will grow to $60 million a year over the course of the contact. You add in things like the Dodgers with their local contract signed for $3 billion over a 25 year period.

These are just ludcrious numbers,now paying $11 millon a year for a pitcher who can go out and give you 30 starts is nothing. Thats a bargain rate your going to see very soon people signing contracts in the range of $200 million over their lifetime for maybe five or six seasons, it’s not far away.

Michael Duca does commentary on A’s and Giants each week for Sportstalk radio