by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–The Giants (42-36) who are in Miami for this week’s three game series with the Marlins (32-46), theoretically Ginancarlo Stanton who is out on the disabled list the team’s home run hitter is out with injury and it gives the Giants have a slight advantage in the series. Almost since he Marlins inception the Giants have matched up well against the Marlins. The Giants took a loss in the first game of their series on Tuesday night 5-3.

Casey McGehee who was designated for assignment just before Tuesday night’s game got his stroke back after the first designated assignment back on May 24th. He came back and sat on the bench and lost his timing after sitting for two weeks. That’s a recipe for hitting disaster for McGehee.

If you were to take Giants third baseman Matt Duffy’s season statistical line and lay it out directly next to ex Giant third baseman Pablo Sandoval’s season statistical line including errors you would find that Duffy was equal or slightly better than Panda in every single category and he makes a dollar for every 33 that Pablo makes.

Duffy and catcher Buster Posey were the entire offense against the Colorado Rockies in the series at AT&T last weekend to win two out of three. Buster is finishing the best RBI month of his career and Duffy is too, although Duffy’s career is a little shorter. Duffy’s count success is 12-15 hitting .377, 7-13 with seven runs over the weekend against Colorado.

Also Duffy has gone.424 on first pitches,.553 on 0-1 counts, .462 on 1-0 counts. If I was pitching him I would spot Duffy with a 2-0 count and start pitching from there because I would have a fighting chance then. Buster the same and I get the feeling Buster has taken Duffy aside already a couple times this year particularly after he’s moved up to the three hole and he kept pressing a little bit in more than what he needed to do.

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