It's Only April

This is not your 2014 San Francisco Giants. The roster has had some changes. We don't have a Panda playing third base and we don't have a suspect left fielder who when he came to bat it was Morse, Morse, Morse. But as with every season, you have changes. And it takes time to find the right mixture of players to make it through the long, six month season, that you push to make into the seventh month.

It doesn't appear the Giants will have a repeat of the Barry Bonds 2001 season or Willie Mays in 1965 in which they both belted 17 homers in one month. (Bonds hit his in May, Mays hit his in August)
But something else will happen that will surely put them among the National League's elite.

After what I've seen in 2010, 2012, and 2014, I will not count a Bochy-led bunch out of any race, unless they are mathematically eliminated. (Note: Of the 8 home runs allowed by Giants' pitching, 4 have been 3-run homers and one was a grand slam. This is something to keep an eye on as the season progresses.)


Kevin J. Marquez