SF Giants: 4 Things We Can Expect with Larry Baer at the Helm

What does the ascension of Larry (Laurence M.) Baer to the San Francisco Giants' corner office mean for the franchise? Its chances to return to the playoffs in 2012? Locking up Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum to long-term deals?

Hard to say. The Lowell High School and UC Berkeley graduate has, in certain respects, been hiding in plain sight for many of his two-plus decades as a Giants employee.

Named the club's executive vice president in 1992, Baer was credited with putting together virtually every element of the AT&T (then called Pacific Bell) Park project: voter approval, financing, architectural design, construction. Everything.

Yet Baer largely lived in the shadow of the highly visible then-managing partn...

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