Brandon Belt has a chance to make the Giants roster
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The San Francisco Giants were planning for Brandon Belt to start the season at Triple-A, but the team is not sure about that anymore according to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.
His performance this Spring Training has making the Giants decision to move him to Triple-A very difficult, but according the Giants GM, Brian Sabean, the team will make the decision based on baseball and not on business.
“I think he’s going to be a superstar,” Giants shortstop Miguel Tejada. “He reminds me of (Joe) Mauer with the way he swings, always staying inside the ball.”
Resting on the Belt decision are the futures of Aaron Rowand, Travis Ishikawa and Nate Schierholtz. The latter two do not have any Minor League options left, and Rowand carries a large contract with two years left on it.
Moving Huff to left field would be the easy part says Rosenthal. The 34-year old veteran started 24 games in left field last season and 33 in right field. Rowand, though, is guaranteed $12 million in each of the next two seasons and is drawing little to no interest from other teams.
Belt is considered a left handed version of Buster Posey, who won the National League Rookie of the Year award last season. If the first baseman makes the Major League roster, and the Giants can’t unload on of the other players, you may see a phantom injury in order to keep them all on the team.
In 50 plate appearances this spring, Belt is hitting .283/.340/.522 with 2 HR’s and 10 RBI’s.

