This would be their 11th straight elimination game win. If you figure the last four games of the regular season this year were also effectively elimination games, I think it's safe to say no team plays better with its back to the wall.
Even Year Magick vs. They're Due!
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Got Matt Duffy at a time when he was slumping following a great rookie season, an A ball shortstop that's years away from any impact and a lottery ticket.
Peanuts relative to what his value once was but I understood the trade from TB's side - there was a surplus of starting pitching and Moore was about to get expensive (expensive for TB anyway).
Oh they made some missteps.
The Zito contract was bad and that and the Aaron Rowand contracts were essentially meant to transition the fan-base from the Bonds era to whatever was coming next. That said, the Giants had trouble attracting hitters because of the park and the clubhouse when Bonds were there. As such, they were price takers for any stars that might even entertain coming there. Zito was a calculated risk because of the dimensions of the park - he actually did well in spurts but as you pointed out, the warning signs were there that he had lost something over in Oakland. That said, he was big for them in 2012 so he wasn't a complete waste. Rowand was hot garbage his whole time as a Giant
No. Theo's hole in his GM game is free agents. To be fair, Heyward got hurt making a diving catch earlier in the year in San Francisco and it seemed to have some lingering effects. That said, it is a putrid contract.
I'm sort of partial to the third one; they're all keepers...................
Nah, I'm only kidding. He can root for them but he should know they're dead. Been dead for a while now. Got a smell about them.
Middle reliever with a 2.13 ERA. Pretty good but the only way he was going to face Rizzo was to retire Bryant. And perhaps not even then.