by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–There is almost no way that the Giants will lose on property development if they go forward with the plan to build condos and affordable housing in parking lot A at AT&T Park. This will also help further the Giants ambition to further improve the ball park and the neighborhood. There is certainly a lot of benefit to having housing out in the Giants parking lot.

The Giants would like to develop some space that would fan user friendly where fans can play catch before ball games and simulate a diamond in part of that space and that would be kind of a center piece for development in that area. This would replace the parking garage and it would a little problematic taking out a seven story building full of cars and making it a flat parking lot.

There have been skeptics regarding this project proposal by the Giants and there are people who will make things up to make sure you don’t like the things that they don’t like. As best as I can tell the initiative that was proposed the voters in San Francisco would have to approve anything that exceeds the maximum height limits at the waterfront.The Giants in essence would be limited to whatever the voters approve. The Giants would like to get the initiative on the ballot in time for November’s election.

Oakland A’s update: It’s going to be interesting to see what winds up happening just because the A’s Josh Reddick is hitting well and that certainly occupies one outfield spot. A’s outfielder Cocco Crisp will be back any day in fact he might be back against the Twins Wednesday. That creates an issue because Burns is not going to move to the DH role. There needs to be a place for Crisp to play.

Reddick who became the American League player of the week last week co-shared the honors with the Houston Astros Jose Altuve is in good company because he’s an awesome player wrapped in a very small package. Reddick has really come out of the gate fast after his injury kept him out of the line up early in the season. Once he got off the D.L. Reddick has been playing very well. He has had a few defensive lapses that are uncharacteristic for him but he certainly hasn’t carried that into the batters box.

A’s pitcher Sonny Gray who’s 4-0 and has an ERA of 1.67, Gray doesn’t mess around on the mound. He doesn’t waste pitches I rarely understand guys who nibble to get their pitch count up early. They show that they give everything they got and some of them can’t stay in games. Gray doesn’t do any of those things. He goes out there and says here’s the pitch see what you can do with it.

Michael Duca does Giants and A’s commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below