Your 2016 Giants: Opening Day Roster

As released by the Giants, this is your 2016 Giants on opening day:

Pitchers

#		Name	B/T	Ht	Wt	DOB
40		Madison Bumgarner	R/L	6'5"	250lbs	8/1/89
18		Matt Cain	R/R	6'3"	230lbs	10/1/84
46		Santiago Casilla	R/R	6'0"	210lbs	7/25/80
47		Johnny Cueto	R/R	5'11"	220lbs	2/15/86
62		Cory Gearrin	R/R	6'3"	200lbs	4/14/86
53		Chris Heston	R/R	6'3"	195lbs	4/10/88
70		George Kontos	R/R	6'3"	215lbs	6/12/85
49		Javier Lopez	L/L	6'4"	220lbs	7/11/77
61		Josh Osich	L/L	6'2"	230lbs	9/3/88
22		Jake Peavy	R/R	6'1"	195lbs	5/31/81
54		Sergio Romo	R/R	5'11"	185lbs	3/4/83
29		Jeff Samardzija	R/R	6'5"	225lbs	1/23/85
60		Hunter Strickland	R/R	6'4"	220lbs	9/24/88

Catchers

#		Name	B/T	Ht	Wt	DOB
14		Trevor Brown	R/R	6'2"	195lbs	11/15/91
28		Buster Posey	R/R	6'1"	215lbs	3/27/87

Infield

#		Name	B/T	Ht	Wt	DOB
13		Ehire Adrianza	S/R	6'1"	170lbs	8/21/89
9		Brandon Belt	L/L	6'5"	220lbs	4/20/88
35		Brandon Crawford	L/R	6'2"	215lbs	1/21/87
5		Matt Duffy	R/R	6'2"	170lbs	1/15/91
12		Joe Panik	L/R	6'1"	190lbs	10/30/90
37		Kelby Tomlinson	R/R	6'3"	180lbs	6/16/90

Outfield

#		Name	B/T	Ht	Wt	DOB
7		Gregor Blanco	L/L	5'11"	175lbs	12/24/83
16		Angel Pagan	S/R	6'2"	200lbs	7/2/81
8		Hunter Pence	R/R	6'4"	220lbs	4/13/83
2		Denard Span	L/L	6'0"	210lbs	2/27/84

Your 2016 Giants: Big Six Top Giants Prospects

I sometimes post a Big Six Giants prospect list on my blog, but my answer to the Giants prospect chat will have to substitute for it this season.  I like to read through the books and discuss why I like the top guys, and build my arguments why I think they are the top 6, but that is going to take a lot of time, and I like to get it done before Opening Day, and I just don't have the time.  So this time, I'm just going to fan boy about the system.

Your 2016 Giants: Prospect Musings

A while back, I was invited to participate in a Giants prospect discussion, where we answered five questions for this site, MLB Top Prospects, which is linked to the side as well.  The results was released a couple of weeks ago and I had been meaning to put it up, but just been busy with other things, including my own posts (though another consideration was that this chat reminded me of an internet bully who tried to use my dead father in an effort to insult and embarrass me, so I was a bit upset about that, as I don't like being reminded of people like him; but I decided it's out there, I should at least link to it and share it).  Here is a link to the 2016 San Francisco Top Prospects Chat.