No one in baseball expected the Giants to do what they did last season. All year long it seemed like analysts were just waiting for them to stumble out of the NL West lead and for the Dodgers to dominate. That never happened though.
Injuries derailed the Dodgers and San Francisco flat out played good baseball from start to finish. It was wild to watch, and it came down to the wire in the West for the first time since the Rockies were good. But who stands in the way of an NL West crown this season?
You can basically forget about the Rockies and Diamondbacks with both teams somehow already out of contention.