San Francisco Giants: Sabean Should Consider Matt Cain As “Untouchable”

Over the last few seasons, the San Francisco Giants' farm system has gone from one of the worst in baseball to one of the best. In fact, numerous baseball sites have the Giants ranked as high as fifth in talent rankings for minor-league prospects.

However, Giants ace Matt Cain made his major league debut in 2005 when San Francisco had very few big league prospects. Cain was essentially their only grade A prospect at the time and was counted on to turn around the fortunes of a dismal franchise.

During his first 14 big-league starts from 2005-2006, the Giants' 20-year-old pitcher went just 3-6 and finished 2006 with a 4.15 era. Oddly enough, Cain finished with a 13-12 record in '06 despite posting his career worst era. But in the following two seasons Cain recorded a 15-30 ...

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