**2nd Annual Official '09 SF GIants reg. season Thread**
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ssociated Press Report We are going to play this game, Nationals president Stan Kasten said as the clock hit 10 p.m. Kasten said he and Giants president Larry Baer, also in attendance, were determined to wait out the storm because of the significance of this game. Kasten also said the weather forecast for Thursday afternoon was not promising, making him wary of trying to make up the game as part of a day-night doubleheader. The series wraps up Thursday, and the Giants are not scheduled to visit Washington again this season. Skies are supposedly going to be clear at 1130est
so game will start for us at 830pm or 9pm here in cali
so game will start for us at 830pm or 9pm here in cali
Giants Signed Sergio Romo's brother to a minor league contract.
Reliever Sergio Romo's 21-year-old brother, Andrew, has signed a minor-league contract with the Giants in an odd story that obliquely involves Edgar Renteria.
Andrew Romo is not a prospect. The right-hander pitched in high school and junior college in the Imperial Valley but was not drafted. Sergio, a 26-year-old who is 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds, said his brother throws about 85 mph "with a lot of room for improvement. He's definitely a sinkerballer like me. He's a 6-1, 210-pound version of me."
The Giants signed Andrew Romo after he threw a bullpen session for coaches in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Tuesday. Sergio phoned vice president of baseball operations Bobby Evans and asked for the tryout, which resulted in the contract. Andrew has been assigned to extended spring training in Arizona.
He was pitching for the independent Yuma Scorpions in Arizona but was released along with everyone else on the team when the franchise signed a two-year affiliation agreement with the Colombian Professional Baseball League, whose president, Edinson Renteria, is Edgar's brother.
The agreement calls for the Scorpions to field a team of prospects from Colombia. Edgar Renteria and his brother run an academy there to develop baseball players, but Romo said his teammate was not involved in the decision to release all the Scorpion players, including his brother.
Sergio said he hopes his brother can develop into a major-league player.
"It's something I told him was possible, within his capabilities," he said. "If there's anything he needs it's confidence, the confidence he can be a professional baseball player, because he has the ability. You never really know what can come out of a kid."
Reliever Sergio Romo's 21-year-old brother, Andrew, has signed a minor-league contract with the Giants in an odd story that obliquely involves Edgar Renteria.
Andrew Romo is not a prospect. The right-hander pitched in high school and junior college in the Imperial Valley but was not drafted. Sergio, a 26-year-old who is 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds, said his brother throws about 85 mph "with a lot of room for improvement. He's definitely a sinkerballer like me. He's a 6-1, 210-pound version of me."
The Giants signed Andrew Romo after he threw a bullpen session for coaches in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Tuesday. Sergio phoned vice president of baseball operations Bobby Evans and asked for the tryout, which resulted in the contract. Andrew has been assigned to extended spring training in Arizona.
He was pitching for the independent Yuma Scorpions in Arizona but was released along with everyone else on the team when the franchise signed a two-year affiliation agreement with the Colombian Professional Baseball League, whose president, Edinson Renteria, is Edgar's brother.
The agreement calls for the Scorpions to field a team of prospects from Colombia. Edgar Renteria and his brother run an academy there to develop baseball players, but Romo said his teammate was not involved in the decision to release all the Scorpion players, including his brother.
Sergio said he hopes his brother can develop into a major-league player.
"It's something I told him was possible, within his capabilities," he said. "If there's anything he needs it's confidence, the confidence he can be a professional baseball player, because he has the ability. You never really know what can come out of a kid."