Wild Speculation...

During today's Giants TV broadcast, Jon Miller just mentioned that the Giants stole 24 bases over the first 18 games of Spring Training. Extrapolated out to a whole season, that'd be 216 steals. The Mets stole the most in the majors last year (200). The Giants stole 119.

Out of Left Field Question: lots of folks have suggested that maybe the Giants ought to get 1B Richie Sexon from the Mariners to improve our well-documented projected lack of hitting. Tempering that line of thought, however is the reality that 1) Sexon is on the decline and 2) we'd probably have to pay way too steep a price to get him.

Well, what about instead trading for the Nationals' 1B Nick Johnson? I think there's no way Johnson replaces Dmitri Young after the season Young had for the Nationals last year. And Johnson has way more upside than Sexon, and he's four years younger, to boot (29 vs. 33). And the Nationals need pitching in the worst way... and we've got pitching to deal... so.... ?

Here's a good breakdown of what Johnson brings to the party....