Missing Barry Bonds…(Not a Lot, But a Little)

It's a different Giants team and a different Giants organization since Barry Bonds has been gone. No longer are the Giants a team full of aging veterans past their prime like Omar Vizquel and Dave Roberts (if Roberts ever had a prime that is. I'm still wondering when it was).

Nowadays, we more closely resemble the Oakland A's than the Barry Bonds-led Giants teams of old. We rely on our own farm system guys to fill our lineup instead of signing a plethora of questionable free agents in the offseason (And in the irony of ironies, the Oakland A's look more like our old Giants teams, with aging stiffs like Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Giambi withering away on their roster).

And it's a good thing. We may not score as many runs as those Bonds-led Giants teams (we are currently t...

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