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San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval joins Angel Pagan, Ryan Vogelsong, Santiago Casilla on disabled list

There were a lot of reasonable options to replace Ryan Vogelsong, but there wasn't a perfect one. Chad Gaudin is helping out as a reliever. Chris Heston was on the 40-man, but he was struggling. Mike Kickham wasn't on the 40-man, and he could use some work on his command. Nick Noonan isn't a pitcher. Bugs Raymond has been dead for over 100 years. So on and so on. Imperfect options, all. But the Giants are going with the best one available, calling up Mike Kickham. LHP Michael Kickham will start for the #SFGiants on Tuesday at Oakland. He'll be making his Major League debut. — San Fran...

San Francisco Giants' loss of Ryan Vogelsong a blow for starting staff that had combined 9.82 ERA on latest road trip

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San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong throws to the Washington Nationals during the first inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong grabs his hand after being hit by a pitch against the Washington Nationals during the fifth inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. Vogelsong left the game after the game. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco Giants' Brandon Belt, left, scores after a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Vogelsong next to Washington Nationals catcher Jhonatan Solano (23) during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong throws to the Washington Nationals during the first inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong grabs his hand after being hit by a pitch against the Washington Nationals during the fifth inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. Vogelsong left the game after the game. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Giants right-handers Ryan Vogelsong and Santiago Casilla were placed on the disabled list and right-hander Sandy Rosario and first baseman Brett Pill were recalled from Triple-A Fresno. Vogelsong is scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday after fracturing a finger on his throwing hand

Barry Zito was injured in 2011, you know. You'll read a lot of talk about how the Giants haven't had a hurt pitcher since Trevor Wilson went on the DL with a pulled dimple, but it wasn't that long ago that Zito missed significant time with a foot injury. Of course, his replacement stuck in the rotation, made the All-Star team, and won two games in the NLCS, so everything most certainly worked out for the best, but Zito was injured once upon a time. Maybe everything will work out that well again! Probably not. Still, the Giants have to find a replacement for Ryan Vogelsong, who broke hi...

The Giants right-hander will likely miss six weeks Ryan Vogelsong was having his best start of the year, dang it. There's no good reason why that should make this worse -- as if another bad start would have made us say, "Smell you later and thanks for Detroit!" -- but it does make it worse. Vogelsong was having his best start, and now he's broken. Vogelsong is out indefinitely with a fractured right hand, which he broke swinging on a fastball that tailed in on him. When hitters get hit on the hand by a pitch, you'll usually see the trainer out there for a few minutes and the hitter giv...

San Francisco Giants' Brandon Belt, left, scores after a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Vogelsong next to Washington Nationals catcher Jhonatan Solano (23) during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Monday, May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Ryan Vogelsong was having his best start of the year, dang it. There's no good reason why that should make this worse -- as if another bad start would have made us say, "Smell you later and thanks for Detroit!" -- but it does make it worse. Vogelsong was having his best start, and now he's broken. Vogelsong is out indefinitely with a fractured right hand, which he broke swinging on a fastball that tailed in on him. When hitters get hit on the hand by a pitch, you'll usually see the trainer out there for a few minutes and the hitter give the hand the ol' squeeze test for a while. Dave ...

The urge to write an obituary comes so damned easy. Feels like it should have been prewritten and in the can already. Here lies Ryan Vogelsong. So long and thanks for all the two-seamers. That only works if you know the story of Ryan Vogelsong and consider it to be much more important than the way he actually pitched. If you focus on the story out of context, sure, this was bound to happen. He was like something out of an unaired Twilight Zone episode -- a cosmonaut who comes to our planet and teaches us all a lesson before the Earth's yellow sun melts him. He came and it was brilliant...