PLAYERS:
Javier Lopez,
Jeremy Affeldt,
Brian Wilson,
Sergio Romo,
Ramon Ramirez,
Santiago Casilla,
Carlos Beltran
TEAMS: San Francisco Giants, New York Mets
TEAMS: San Francisco Giants, New York Mets
When baseball people speak of off season "rebuilding" it is usually in reference to a team at a complete dead end, staring off into a storm-clouded future of bleak nothingness. Kind of like I felt while doing my taxes last year. A team knows it's reached the abyss when even the .500 teams briefly reanimated and smacked them around the previous season. Last place ballclubs with little hope of moving up in their division the following year (or the following three years) use the term "rebuilding" to reassure their fan base that the team's front office is at least doing something, anything, to give the impression there's some semblance of command and control still in play.But there's another side to the traditional rebuild, and the San Francisco Giants are in that process right now. Call it "some reassembly is required" as the Giants take the necessary steps to ensure their outstanding 2010-11 bullpen would be in place for the 2012 campaign...
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