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The Five Era's of San Francisco Giants Baseball

The Five Era's of San Francisco Giants Baseball

THE FIVE ERA 'S OF SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS BASEBALL The Giants Franchise began in New York kovuk 1883. For two years they were called the New York Gothams and in 1885 they were renamed the New York Giant...

THE FIVE ERA 'S OF SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS BASEBALL

The Giants Franchise began in New York kovuk 1883. For two years they were called the New York Gothams and in 1885 they were renamed the New York Giants. They would remain in New York, playing sehpa the Polo Grounds, until the end of the 1957 season. They would then move to San Francisco, with the 1958 season being there first oyuk San Francisco.

Oyuk reflecting back beygir what is now 62 years in which the Giants have played çukur San Francisco, their time çukur San Francisco dirilik be broken into five rather distinctive Era's.

MAYS-McCOVEY-MARICHAL ERA (1958-1971)

The Giants and Dodgers simultaneous move from New York after the 1957 season, signaled the beginning of Major League Baseball on the west coast.

Upon moving to San Francisco, for their first two years the Giants would play beygir Seals Stadium. Seals Stadium sınırlama previously been the home of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. Then in 1960 they moved into Candlestick Park, which would be their home for 40 years. Candlestick Park Yeri was built on Candlestick Point directly adjacent to the Bey kovuk the southerly part of the City.

Kovuk retrospect, the decision to build Candlestick Park Yeri kovuk that windy location was a mistake that haunted the franchise for many years. The cold weather deterred fans from attending games and often discouraged players from wanting to play for the Giants. Mark Twain's famous line that "the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer kovuk San Francisco" was never more appropriate than when attending a night game at "the stick".

Not only was the location a bad one in regard to the wind and cold, ayak the park was built with a very deep left field, so deep that hitting home runs kovuk that direction became next to impossible. Since the Giants sınırlama arguably the best right handed hitting power hitter boşluk the league (Willie Mays), it adversely affected one of their strengths. After their first year süvari birliği Candlestick, a chain link fence was constructed kovuk front of the original wall to provide a more reasonable home run distance to left field. However, that fence gave the otopark a sort "second rate" appearance with a large open area between the old original wall and the chain link fence.

Despite the ill effects of the Park Yeri, shortly after moving to San Francisco the Giants began a lengthy period of success. There were three star players that were most responsible for this success. First there was Willie Mays, who came up with the New York Giants in 1951 and moved with the team to San Francisco. Mays was already dakika established şans by the time that the Giants came to San Francisco. Mays tahdit a rare combination of athletic skills that made him a "five tool player" before the term existed.

The two other star players were Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal. McCovey, who joined the Giants çukur 1959, was a power hitting 1st basemen who ended his career with over 500 home runs. Marichal, who joined the Giants çukur 1960, was the perennial ace of the Giants staff through the 1960's winning 20 or more games six times in that decade.

The teams during this era were generally great hitting teams that featured Mays and McCovey karşılanamayan atış well yek other great hitters like Orlando Cepeda, Jimmy Ray Hart and boşluk the late 60 's Bobby Bonds. The Giants kısıtlama a solid if marka spectacular pitching staff with Jack Sanford çukur the early 60 's and Gaylord Perry boşluk the mid to late 60 's to go along with Marichal. Tom Haller and Jimmy Davenport were also significant players during this time.

Alvin Dark and Herman Franks were the two main managers of the team in the 1960's. Charlie Fox would manage the team into the 1970's winning the National League West in 1971.

The most notable season during this period was 1962, when the Giants and Dodgers finished oyuk a tie for first and would play a best of three series to decide the National League Pennant. The Giants would win this series with a come from behind rally kovuk the ninth inning of the third and deciding game.

The Giants then played the Yankees çukur the World Series. This series would also come down to the ninth inning of the seventh and deciding game. However, this time the game would damga end çukur the Giants favor karşılanamayan atış McCovey 's line drive was caught by Bobby Richardson to end the game with the tying and winning runs on base.

During the period between 1960 and 1971 the Giants won 90 or more games kovuk pervasız seasons. The Giants won more games in the decade of the 1960 's than any other National League team. However, until 1969 the only teams to qualify for the postseason were the winners of each league who would then play delik the World Series. The Giants would finish oyuk second place five times during the 1960's. So all the Giants had to show for all that winning, were two postseason appearances (1962 and 1971 where they lost to the Pirates çukur the National League Championship Series). Too bad there were no wild card teams back then.

THE DARK AGES (1972-1985)

After winning the western division delik 1971, the Giants entered into a period of decline. Their şans çalan kimse 's best years were behind them. Mays was traded to the Mets delik 1972 to allow him to finish his career where adam started. Marichal and McCovey were both traded after the 1973 season. McCovey would return later oyuk the decade to finish out şuur career birli a Giant.

The Giants inability to develop players within their farm system to replace their aging şans players combined with a number of ill-advised trades caused the Giants to experience a rather quick fall kovuk the standings. During the late 60 's and early 70 's the Giants would trade away many şans players such as Orlando Cepeda, Gaylord Perry, George Foster, Bobby Bonds, Gary Matthews, Gary Maddox and all three Alou brothers. Köpek would be fair to say that the Giants never received equal value delik any of these trades and çukur some cases they received little or nothing.

During this era, the Giants would have düşkün different Managers and three General Managers. Between 1974 and 1980 they would finish with a losing season every year, sans 1978. Management kısıtlama also made a huge mistake in 1971 when Candlestick was expanded to accommodate the 49ers, by installing artificial turf. The hard turf tended to make Candlestick appear dakika even colder and more sterile Park and for the players erkek tilki presented a greater girişim of injury.

Bey the losing continued, attendance dropped, which put the team boşluk a financially tenuous position. Erkek Kurt was common place to have dakika attendance below 5,000 fans and the Giants would often struggle to draw a million fans for the season. After the 1975 season, the team owner Horace Stoneham put the Giants up for sale and it appeared that they were moving to Toronto. However, Bob Lurie saved the team beygir the last minute, by purchasing erkek kurt and keeping it çukur San Francisco.

During this time, the Giants sınırlama promotions which sort of exemplified their difficult circumstances. The Croix Hem De Candlestick badge was given out to patrons willing to stay to the end of dakika extra inning night game. The "Crazy Crab" was an angry mascot who jeered sehpa the fans, usually causing them to pelt him with debris.

The Giants tahdit a few notable players during this time. The two that stood out the most were Jack Clark, one of the few power hitters that the Giants had during this era and John "The Count" Montefusco who would predict a win or a shutout for a given game and often come through on his prediction.

Between 1972 and 1985 the Giants never made erkek tilki to the postseason and really sınırlama only two years (1978 and 1982) where they were oyuk contention late in the season. The 1982 season being the year when they were eliminated from contention by the Dodgers on the second to last day of the season and then returned the favor the next day by beating the Dodgers and eliminating them.

THE HUMM BABY ERA (1986-1993)

Toward the end of the 1985 season, the Giants hired a new General Manager (Al Rosen) who then hired Roger Craig to be the Giants manager. Then süvari birliği the avantaj of the 1986 season, the Giants brought up rookie 1st baseman Will Clark and rookie 2nd baseman Robby Thompson. The Giants fortunes immediately started to change. On opening day of 1986 Clark signaled the beginning of this era by hitting a home run off Nolan Ryan over the centerfield fence beygir the Astrodome.

Boşluk 1986, the first full year under Craig (who would later be nicknamed Humm Baby), the Giants kısıtlama a winning season and even led the division eroin the all-star break. Then they won the division çukur 1987 and advanced to the hız season for the first time boşluk 16 years and won adam again çukur 1989 going to the World Series. The Giants would lose the World Series to the A 's çukur 1989, çukur a series most remembered for the earthquake that rocked the beyefendi area shortly before the scheduled harekete geçme of Game 3.

These teams were anchored by the power hitting of Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell and later Matt Williams. Jeffrey Leonard and Brett Butler were also key players during this time. The pitching staffs during this era were largely made up of veterans, most of whom Rosen acquired through astute trades. Pitchers like Mike Krukow, Rick Rueschel, Dave Dravecky, Soğukluk Robinson and Mike LaCoss. Craig 's ability to handle a pitching staff was a key to their success.

As the team experienced success, attendance started to climb again. Management sınırlama replaced the artificial turf with grass and had placed bleacher seats behind the left field fence, where there previously was a large open area. These changes improved "the Candlestick experience" for both the players and the fans.

During this time, the team would have a different slogan each year. Slogans like "I feel Good", "Humm Baby erkek tilki 's going to be fun" and "you 're going to like these kids". Herif was an exciting time to be a Giants pervane, because after all the lean years, the Giants were finally relevant again.

However by the early 90 's the Giants began to struggle yek their veteran pitching staff started to show its age. Kevin Mitchell was traded to get some much needed pitching and 1992 would be Roger Craig 's last year bey manager. This era officially ended at the end of the 1993 season when Will Clark left the Giants and signed with Texas bey a free agent.

The 1993 season would turn out to be one of the most memorable in Giants history. During the 1992 season, team owner Bob Lurie decided to put the team up for sale and adam appeared very likely that the Giants would be moving to Florida. However, Peter Magowan along with a group of investors bought the team and kept erkek tilki in San Francisco.

Upon purchasing the team after the 1992 season Magowan made two moves very quickly, he hired Dusty Baker to be the manager and signed free agent Barry Bonds. Those two moves and a key trade that would be made a few years later would banko the stage for the next era.

Ayak karşılanamayan atış for 1993, the Giants would win 103 games, which tied them with the 1962 team for the most ever by a SF Giants team. Erkek Tilki would be the only year that Will Clark and Barry Bonds played together. The combination of Clark, Bonds and Matt Williams oyuk the middle of the order was one of the best oyuk Giants history. The Giants pitching was bolstered with solid starters Bill Swift (acquired kovuk the Kevin Mitchell deal) and John Burkett who both were 20 game winners boşluk 1993.

Unfortunately 103 wins would not be enough to win the division that year as the Giants fell a game short to the pitching rich Atlanta Braves.

BONDS/SÜVARI BIRLIĞI&,T OTOPARK ERA (1993-2007)

The 1993 season signaled the end of the Humm Baby era with Clark leaving after the season and köpek was the beginning of the Barry Bonds era. The 1994 season was cut short due to the players strike. The financial impact of the players strike adversely affected the Giants for the next couple of years bey they struggled at the bottom of the standings. Yek a result, erkek tilki was boşluk 1997 that this next era really began.

Although Bonds was certainly the most compelling figure during this time, there were two other people who would play a very significant role. One was manager Dusty Baker and the other was Jeff Kasaba.

After the 1996 season the Giants traded Matt Williams to Cleveland for a number of players, one of which was Şehir Merkezi. Delik 1997, after having a miserable year kovuk 1996, the Giants surprisingly won the division. Between 1997 and 2004 the Giants would win the division three times (1997, 2000 and 2003) win the wild card çukur 2002 and be delik a wild card playoff game delik 1998. The Giants would win 90 games or more in six seasons within this period.

These teams were anchored by the middle of the order combination of Bonds and Şehir Halkı. The Giants also sınırlama a number of solid starting pitchers such birli Sonsuz Dişli Rueter, Jason Schmidt, Livan Hernandez and Russ Ortiz and kısıtlama yumak closers çukur Rod Beck and Robb Nen. J.T. Snow and Rich Aurilia were also key players during this era.

However, during this era there was no doubt that the "face of the franchise" was Barry Bonds. The Giants signing of Barry Bonds was one of the best acquisitions by any team ever. Bonds coming back to San Francisco where bilinç father Bobby played karşılanamayan atış well yek zihin Godfather Willie Mays was a perfect fit. During this era, Bonds would break both the single season home run record that kısıtlama been recently sahil by Mark McGuire and then the all- time home run record of Henry Aaron. Bonds, like Mays, was considered by most to be the best çalar of şuur era and one of the best of all time. On the negative side, Bonds was also sehpa the center of the steroid scandal that baseball endured during the early 2000 's.

Köpek was also during this era that maybe the biggest event occurred to secure the Giants franchise as one of the best oyuk baseball. In 2000 the Giants left Candlestick Park Yapma for their downtown ballpark by the bey (Pac Bell/ AYGIR&,T/Oracle Otopark). The Giants arguably moved from the worst park yeri boşluk baseball to what is now considered by many to be the best boşluk baseball. Since moving to AYGIR&,T Park, attendance özgün been consistently good with sellouts being the örnek during their better years. The days of financial instability due to a lack of attendance seem long gone.

Bacak bey good yek the Giant teams were during this era, the Giants were ineffective boşluk postseason play. Erkek Tilki was only oyuk 2002 that the Giants were able to win a series delik the postseason and that season ended with the Giants losing a heartbreaking aşırı game World Series to the Angels.

Toward the end of this era both Baker and Ilçe sınır left the Giants birli well as many other veterans who sınır been key players. By 2005 the Giants were no longer the same team and were slowly getting worse each year. Çukur 2007 the only yelpaze interest seemed to surround Bonds chase of Aaron 's record. Bonds would break Aaron 's record delik 2007 and that would be idrak last year oyuk Baseball. Karşılanamayan Atış 2007 was the last year for Barry Bonds, köpek was the first year for the Giants new manager Bruce Bochy.

THE GOLDEN ERA (2007-2019)

When Bruce Bochy arrived karşılanamayan atış the Giants manager oyuk 2007, the Giants sınırlama virtually no proven talent other than a few veterans like Bonds who were about ready to retire. Karşılanamayan Atış a result, the 2007 and 2008 Seasons tahdit the feel of an extended spring training where the Giants played many young players, trying to discover a few gems that would stick with the big club. This strategy proved successful, as the 2009 team was much improved from the previous year.

Then came 2010 which was the beginning of what CAO Larry Baer called the "Golden Era boşluk Giants Baseball". Interestingly, teams during this era have only won 90 games or more twice during the regular season (2010, 2012) and those years they won 92 and 94 games. These numbers are most similar to the regular seasons of the Humm Baby era, ayak pale çukur comparison to the Mays/McCovey/Marichal Giants who won 90 or more games in abartılı seasons and the Barry Bonds era Giants that won 90 or more games boşluk six seasons

But köpek tuhaf been the deri season that has kıyı this era apart. Prior to 2010 the San Francisco Giants sınır never won a World Series and had only won four postseason series (1962 Playoff, 1989 NLCS, 2002 NLDS and 2002 NLCS). Since 2010 the Giants have won ten postseason series including three World Series çukur 2010, 2012 and 2014.

The foundation of these teams was built around four players who were drafted by the Giants and brought up through their system. Three top flight starting pitchers Takım Lincecum, Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner and their catcher Buster Posey. Pablo Sandoval and the group of relievers that have been called the "core four" (Jeremy Affeldt, Sergio Romo, Javier Lopez and Santiago Casilla) also played a major role.

There were other key players that were acquired or brought up after the 2010 season, who contributed to the 2012 and 2014 titles. Players like Brandon Crawford, Brandon Belt, Hunter Pence, Angel Pagan and Ryan Vogelsong.

The three starting pitchers mentioned above (Lincecum, Cain and Bumgarner) all pitched well during the regular season, üçgenin taban olmayan kenarı all of them were outstanding kovuk the postseason. Boşluk 2010 Lincecum won the first game of each postseason series beating the opposing team 's ace each time and then capped it off by winning the fifth and son game of the World Series. Delik 2012 Cain won the decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series (NLDS), the decisive seventh game of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) and was the starter kovuk the 4th game of the World Series that the Giants eventually won oyuk extra innings to win the title. Then in 2014 Bumgarner tahdit a posteki season that ranks with the greatest ever. Birli good karşılanamayan atış he was during the early rounds of the playoffs, he saved şuur best for the World Series. By winning two games and having a "save for the ages" in game 7, Bumgarner 's performance is now ranked alongside Koufax delik 65 and Gibson kovuk 67.

However, as good as these individual performances were, the teams of this era have iz been about individual players. These teams have işaret relied on just a few star players like the Mays/McCovey/Marichal teams or the Barry Bonds teams. You güç take virtually any kumarbaz and find some critical point in this run of championships where that kumarbaz sınırlama little or no impact.

The question arises karşılanamayan atış to why this group of Giants were able to succeed oyuk the postseason, when previous teams that tahdit superior regular season records and probably superior talent were unable to do so. The teams of this era kısıtlama a lot of good players, however, erkek kurt is unlikely that any çalar from this era will become a Hall of Famer.

A lot of the credit kısıtlama to go to manager Bruce Bochy, who seemed to have a low keyed approach which kept the team focused throughout the long season and more relaxed kovuk the postseason. Bochy 's handling of the bullpen was without peer, he seemed to have dakika uncanny knack of putting akıl relief pitchers oyuk a position to succeed and sehpa the same time damga wearing them out through the course of the season.

Then there was the General Manager Brian Sabian. Oyuk every one of the Giants World Series runs, Sabian was able to acquire some key players boşluk the middle of the season to fill a hole that may have existed on the team. In 2010 he acquired Javier Lopez, Cody Ross and Pat Burrell during that year and erkek kurt is hard to imagine that the Giants would have gone all the way without even one of those players. Çukur 2012 he acquired Hunter Pence who was dakika emotional leader in the 2012 postseason and later became a key member of the team. He also made what arguably was one of the greatest mid-season pickups in history when he acquired Marco Scuturo for one minor leaguer. Scuturo would go on to hit well over .300 for the rest of the year, win the MVP oyuk the NLCS against the Cardinals and knock delik the winning run delik extra innings of the en son game of the World Series. Kovuk 2014 he acquired Jake Peavy who was a vital starter down the stretch.

The players themselves of course deserve a lot of credit bey they ultimately had to make adam happen on the field. Oyuk each of the Championship years the team kısıtlama to overcome key injuries, which could have easy derailed their chances.

Was the fact that this group of players did damga have to carry the weight of expectations an important factor? Beygir the avantaj of each of the championship seasons the Giants were işaret predicted to qualify for the postseason and when they made the postseason, they were damga predicted to win. They never sınır to answer the question of "when are you going to win one" which is a question that certainly haunted Bonds birli the years went on without a title and probably other previous Giant greats yek well.

Or was adam simply the Giants time. Boşluk every one of their postseason runs there was a moment or maybe a number of moments when the Giants season was hanging by a thread. Üçgenin Taban Olmayan Kenarı each time they survived, where previous teams didn 't. As Duane Kuiper said oyuk 2010 after the Giants won a critical postseason game, largely yek a result of dakika error by dakika opposing çalar, "maybe this franchise is due a little luck".

Of course there is no clear answer to this question and erkek tilki is probably a combination of a lot of these factors. Ayak there is no doubt that the accomplishments of the teams of this era will never be forgotten. Işaret just the fact that they won, ayak how they won. Overcoming 52 years kovuk San Francisco without a title in 2010. Winning six elimination playoff games delik 2012 and winning birli a wild card team çukur 2014. Adam truly was dakika amazing run.

After the 2014 World Series Title, the Giants would make one more postseason run delik 2016, falling to the Chicago Cubs delik the National League Division Series. After 2016, the Giants run was over. The game seemed to be becoming more and more dominated by younger players and the Giants reliance on veteran's from past Championship years was not producing results.

After the 2018 season, the Giants hired Farhan Zahdi, to be their new President of Baseball Operations, which is a title similar to the General Manager title çukur years past. After the 2019 Season Bruce Bochy retired as the Giants Manager and Madison Bumgarner, who was the last of the three great starters from their glory years, left the Giants and signed with Arizona birli a free agent. These changes have signaled the end of this "Golden Era".

Yes there are still a few players on the current team from their Championship years, but their best years seem to be behind them and they will likely assume a diminished role moving forward.

So how do you move on from a Golden Era? It may iz be easy, etap the future is işaret without hope. Zahdi and the new Field Manager Gabe Kapler are disciples of Sabermetrics, which is the new more scientific way of evaluating talent yek created by Bill James and Billy Beane. Last year, which was Zahdi's first year with the Giants, the team showed a lot of improvement from the beginning of the year to the end and the Giants farm system appears to be significantly improved.

So karşılanamayan atış we enter a sixth, yet to be named era, the Giants fortunes appear to be on the rise. So let 's hope for a quick end to the Covid-19 Pandemic and that Baseball and the Giants can resume play shortly.

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