{"id":1274,"date":"2008-11-19T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:34:38","slug":"bgb-team-picker-2nd-place-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"BGB Team Picker &#8211; 2nd place San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two years ago, the Giants were Barry Bonds and Barry Bonds was the Giants.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, he is a part of their history that they seemingly don&#8217;t quite know how to\u00c2\u00a0 reconcile themselves with.\u00c2\u00a0 A newcomer doesn&#8217;t have to worry about that though.\u00c2\u00a0 The Giants are at the beginning of a new era and that makes them an attractive proposition for a British fan trying to decide which team he or she should make their own.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Team Picker Scores<\/h2>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"484\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"84\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roots and Tradition<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"89\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Underdog Status<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hope for the Future<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"72\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Following from afar<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"79\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Road trip potential<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Total Score<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"84\" valign=\"top\"><strong>13<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"89\" valign=\"top\"><strong>16.5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" valign=\"top\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"72\" valign=\"top\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"81\" valign=\"top\"><strong>16.5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" valign=\"top\"><strong>69<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As you can see, the Giants score well across the board.\u00c2\u00a0 The one area that lets them down at the moment is their low ranking in the &#8216;Hope for the Future&#8217; category, but they do have an ace up their sleeve.\u00c2\u00a0 Quite literally.\u00c2\u00a0 The newly crowned NL Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum is surely worth an extra three or four points on his own.<\/p>\n<p>While their move from New York back in 1958 was contentious at the time, it would be wrong to penalize them too heavily for that now.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, they have been in San Francisco for fifty years and counting.\u00c2\u00a0 Their low win totals in the last few years means that they are definite underdogs, although they haven&#8217;t been shy about spending money at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately for them, they haven&#8217;t been great at spending it wisely (Barry Zito being a classic example).<\/p>\n<p>The Giants played a good number of day games (nineteen) during the working week in 2008, which along with a decent amount of weekend day games helps them to greatly reduce the negative effect of their west coast position in terms of their games being played at a convenient time for British fans.\u00c2\u00a0 Add in San Francisco&#8217;s attraction as a tourist destination and the Giants are strong candidates to be an ideal team for a Brit to pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two years ago, the Giants were Barry Bonds and Barry Bonds was the Giants.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, he is a part of their history that they seemingly don&#8217;t quite know how to\u00c2\u00a0 reconcile themselves with.\u00c2\u00a0 A newcomer doesn&#8217;t have to worry about that though.\u00c2\u00a0 The Giants are at the beginning of a new era and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553,42],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2","tag-team-picker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}