Shawon Dunston Joins TBG

Big news folks! We here at Tampa Bay Giants have recently joined teams with Shawon Dunston, whom Giants fans remember from his three tours with San Francisco (1996, 1998, 2001-02), resulting in a National League Championship, 18 towering home runs, and two purple hearts. Baseball wizz Bill James noted that Dunston was an "eternal rookie, a player who continued until the end of his career to make rookie mistakes." Obviously, this is a match made in heaven's singles lounge. So from now on, instead of a sporadically updated blog, expect sporadic question and answer sessions from TBG's hordes of fans answered by the two time overall pick (once in the 1982 MLB draft, the other in the 2007 TampaBayGiants.com worldwide search for someone to lessen the harsh physical burden of blogging). If you want to get involved, simply, contact Shawon through his electronic mail!

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Welcome back friends. This year, TBG plans to be much better. We will start with predictions for the upcoming 162-3 games of ecstasy we have in store.

To help make offensive projections for the lineup this year, I took the career highs in each category for each player and came up with these hitting forecasts:

Roberts:
.293/.360/.428, 80 R, 19 2B's, 13 3B's, 8 HR, 44 RBI, 49 SB
Vizquel:
.333/.397/.436, 112 R, 36 2B's, 10 3B's, 14 HR, 72 RBI, 43 SB
Durham:
.296/.374/.538, 126 R, 42 2B, 10 3B, 26 HR, 93 RBI, 36 SB
Barry Bonds:
.370/.609/.863, 129 R, 44 2B, 9 3B, 73 HR, 137 RBI, 52 SB, 232 BB
Aurilia:
.325/.369/.572, 114 R, 37 2B, 37 HR, 97 RBI
Klesko:
.310/.399/.608, 105 R, 39 2B, 34 HR, 113 RBI, 23 SB
Winn:
.306/.360/.499, 103 R, 47 2B, 9 3B, 20 HR, 81 RBI, 27 SB
Molina:
.295/.336/.467, 24 2B, 19 HR, 71 RBI

Bench:
Pedro Feliz:
.276/.305/.515, 35 2B's, 22 HR's, 98 RBI

At least on paper, we have what seems to be a historically special team. No one can argue with those numbers. BUT, I know what you're thinking...
"isn't it likely that some players will post new career highs in some categories?"
To answer this one, we can only wait and see what happens...play ball!