San Jose Mercury News · Mar 8, 2016
Giants notes: Kyle Blanks is a behemoth in the Michael Morse mold
San Francisco Giants’ Kyle Blanks (45) is photographed at spring training at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group)SURPRISE, Ariz. – Kyle Blanks is 6-foot-6 when he slouches. His arms are long, tattooed and chiseled, perhaps from climbing up beanstalks. He casts an intimidating shadow when he walks off the bus or looms in the dugout.
Yet Blanks isn’t here to be a behemoth. He’s here to be a baseball player.
With the Giants, and with long overdue blessings of better health, he might get that chance. The bus and the dugout are well and good, but Blanks wants to be on the field and stay there.