Why the Giants Need to Call Up Gary Brown

Hope can be a funny thing, as of right now the Giants have a two game lead in the NL West. But with the Dodgers spending, hope is hard to find. 

With the Melk-Man done for the year because of PED's many see the Giants waving a Blanco flag in left, and unlike the Dodgers, no star player is just going to fall to San Francisco from another team. 

Over the past couple of days the three names that seem to be getting the most ink to counter the Dodgers moves are Jeff Francoeur, Steve Pearce, and old friend Andres Torres. While I like Francoeur and Torres, they are barely upgrades over Blanco and inspire no hope. 

However, what if I were to tell you the Giants could today add an outfielder who is hitting .281 with 33 steals and he wouldn't cost the team a thing. Seems to good to be true, well in a way it is because those numbers are against Double A pitching - but for a second, you were intrigued. 

The player I'm talking about is of course top pospect Gary Brown, the man the Giants brass felt so highly about last season that they traded Zach Wheeler instead of him when they needed to add a bat. 

The truth of the matter is Brown might not really be much better than Gregor Blanco for the rest of this season but his future value would mask that and give the Giants fans the hope they need. 

It would be the perfect counter from a PR point of view to the wild and reckless Dodger spending that the Giants are going to lean on their core players and not mercenaries. For the rest of the baseball world PED's could be a back burner topic while they watch Los Angeles field a lineup with only two players they drafted (Matt Kemp, AJ Ellis) versus a Giants starting nine that is overflowing with players who have only known black and orange (Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Gary Brown). 

Giants fans are reeling from all the bad news that has hit this team in the month of August. Right now, despite the team playing great, it feels like wearing the colors will bring attention for all the wrong reasons. On paper the Dodgers have the better team, eventually losing their best overall hitter will start hurting the Giants, and if the Dodgers can take a lead in the division things will start to look very grim indeed. 

These are the reasons the Giants need to bring up Gary Brown, not because he's a huge improvement over Blanco, but because fans can dream of how amazing it would it be if he is. To steal a line from the Dark Knight, "Because sometimes...the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded."

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