Giants CEO Larry Baer wants to add more World Series championships to the two his franchise has captured the past three seasons.
Why not build a baseball dynasty in the Bay Area?
Baer said Wednesday the front office is already hard at work beginning plans for the 2013 roster — and he is optimistic many familiar faces will stick around, including second baseman and NL Championship Series MVP Marco Scutaro.
“Nobody thinks we should be done,” Baer said. “I think we want to get lots of people back, and he’s one of them.”
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Can you picture Tim Lincecum winding up on the mound at AT&T Park with his stringy hair pouring out of the back of another team’s hat?
The Giants are facing a tough decision with Lincecum’s contract set to expire in 2013. Brian Sabean recently committed a $112.5 million extension to Matt Cain and by the end of next season, he will be finished paying off the $126 million owed to Barry Zito. How eager is he to throw down another $100 million on a big-name arm?
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A look at the 2012 San Francisco Giants.
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As the various cable cars, floats and other vehicles of celebration work their way down Market Street today for our great city’s second World Series parade in three years, fans will get another long and loving look at everyone who had a hand in bringing that shiny flag-festooned trophy back to the shores of McCovey Cove.
And there will be, among the hundreds of thousands of revelers, an understandable temptation to ponder the question of who among the many objects of this unconditional outpouring of affection had the biggest hand in creating this Halloween happiness.
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A look back at the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers.
Game 1Giants 8, Tigers 3
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A look back at the National League Division Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Cincinnati Reds.
Game 1Reds 5, Giants 2
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A look back at the National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Game 1Cardinals 6, Giants 4
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Much has been made of the differences between the 2010 Giants and the 2012 version. One thing, however, has remained constant.
Both teams were built on pitching and defense, with a foundation of homegrown talent.
The philosophy of bringing up players from within the organization has never been more present than this year, when Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt joined the championship run, and Pablo Sandoval played a significantly bigger role.
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A look at the top ten memorable moments in Giants World Series history.
1. THE EARTHQUAKE1989: Game 3, World Series
The Giants were looking forward to returning home after losing the first two games of the World Series to the cross-Bay rival A’s. Only moments before Game 3 was to begin, the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake struck, shaking and cracking Candlestick Park, killing 63 in the Bay Area and causing widespread damage. The Bay Bridge Series was delayed for 10 days, and the A’s finished off the Giants by winning the next two games.
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By:
Janie McCauley
10/29/12 7:01 PM
The Giants’ championship formula is a familiar one, just with new faces all over the diamond two years later: stellar starting pitching backed by a shut-down bullpen, a late-season surge and a manager making all the right moves.
San Francisco captured its second World Series title in three seasons with a stunning sweep of the Tigers, and only catcher Buster Posey was in the lineup for the Game 5 clincher in 2010 at Texas and also the finale at Comerica Park in 2012.
“We’re just happy right now,” Posey said. “It’s an unbelievable feeling.”
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