Ever since the (non)retirement of Barry Bonds following the 2007 season the easy storyline on the San Francisco Giants has been that they are an all pitch/no hit kind of team. Despite marked improvement from their offense since 2008 (the team finished last in the league in runs in 2008, 13th in 2009 and is currently in 9th place this year) they have not been able to change that general perception.
As the team did in the latter years of the Bonds era the Giants by and large are still trying to improve their offense by bringing in aging veterans from whom they hope to squeeze out a couple more years of production. (The emergence of Buster Posey this year was a welcome jolt of youth to the lineup, but his everyday inclusion in the lineup in 2010 was even preceded by the surprising resigning of Bengie Molina last offseason. Molina was finally dropped from the lineup and traded when Posey’s minor league numbers simply could not be ignored, or perhaps for the more cynical, when it beca...
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