by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–Giants general manager Brian Sabean made it no secret that when it comes to Hunter Pence (broken arm) and Angel Pagan (back) they will be back and they will be back to show those National League teams a thing or two. It’s a good thing what Sabean is doing it’s still early on and Saben is confident that Pagan will be back from his back injury soon.

Pence should be back in the next couple of weeks from his broken wrist injury on his left arm that he suffered a few weeks back. The Giants will be fine they’ll have outfielder Nori Akoi and Gregor Blanco doing outfield duty and Pagan will be ready and everything will be alright at AT&T Park for the regular season. So Sabean is very confident and whatever he says has been working and he’s got the World Series rings to prove it.

Sabean right now is up there with Yankee’s general manager Brian Cashman as one of the top GM’s in all of baseball. Pence will be back in he Giants fold full force by the second or third week of April The Giants have limited their budget to $160 million and they’re not about to go out and look and sign a high priced replacement for Pence or Pagan they don’t have a lot of money right now.

They can’t get a ace outfielder like the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Mets or the Phillies. The Giants don’t have that type of money to go out there and get a player like that. The Red Sox have shopped Alan Craig and Cody Ross and the Diamondbacks have shopped Will Venable but the Giants are not taking and they’re not giving up their young prospects in the minors for them either nor do they want to take on any more contract salaries.

The Giants have some young players and Sabean will bring them up if necessary and they have big prospects Gary Brown and Matt Duffy and Duffy came up for a cup of coffee last season and was part of that World Series team. It’s Gary Brown’s job to lose. Brown will need more than a cup of coffee in the show as he needs to dictate big league pitching now.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below