In other words, the Giants came as close to winning the off-season as they have since 1992, when they signed Barry Bonds to change the course of the franchise and the tone of almost every baseball conversation for the past quarter-century.
Denard Span completes the San Francisco Giants’ most strident holiday shopping season ever, a $31 million investment in plumping up the outfield that goes along with the Jeff Samardzija and Johnny Cueto pitching grabs.
So the obvious question becomes how they can justify becoming a 5-1 bet in Las Vegas as a World Series favorite.