2011 MLB Midseason: Where the San Francisco Giants Stand

It feels like yesterday to us Giants fans: Brian Wilson’s strike out of Nelson Cruz delivers the San Francisco Giants their first World Championship in the team's history in San Francisco. It was pure euphoria, an impossible dream realized. What Willie Mays failed to do in San Francisco—not to mention Willie McCovey, Barry Bonds, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Vida Blue, Bobby Bonds, Jeff Kent and Will Clark—was accomplished instead by a cast of cast-offs to supplement our young and spectacular starting rotation.

With the Giants’ unexpected World Series victory, the team earned “capital” with the ...

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