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Brian Wilson's black beard very quickly became a cult phenomenon in the Bay Area in 2010. Now? It's painted on airplanes.
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
The Giants waived Mike Fontenot and placed three others on the DL Friday, clearing the way for new Giants to make the roster. Insider Andrew Baggarly has the...
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From the Web › HardballTalk
Mike Fontenot and San Francisco avoided arbitration with a one-year, $1.05 million deal in December, but the Giants have decided not to guaranteed that salary by keeping...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
The Giants placed infielder Mike Fontenot on waivers Thursday morning. The move suggests that either Brandon Belt or Hector Sanchez is going to make the Opening Day...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
The Giants placed Mike Fontenot on release waivers Friday, just before his contract was about to become fully guaranteed. The move saves the Giants about $787,000 and...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
The Giants placed Mike Fontenot on release waivers Friday, just before his contract was about to become fully guaranteed.
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From the Web › FOX Sports
Before March 31, 2011, Frank McCourt and Bryan Stow had little incommon. McCourt was a Boston businessman and the unpopular owner ofthe Los Angeles Dodgers. Stow was a...
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From the Web › HardballTalk
The Giants can talk all they want about how hard they're trying to sign Matt Cain to a contract extension, but Cain says that they have less than a week to get it done:...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
The Giants' three biggest health questions involved Buster Posey, Freddy Sanchez and Brian Wilson, and only Sanchez appears headed for the DL because his surgically...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
After three hits Thursday raised his spring average to .407, Brandon Belt said that even if the Giants send him to Triple-A Fresno to work on some adjustments, hell be...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
All spring, Bruce Bochy has hinted that the backup catcher job will likely go to Chris Stewart or Eli Whiteside, with Hector Sanchez starting in Triple-A. Thursday, the...
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Giants fans are well aware of the aggressive seagulls that have become a chronic issue at AT&T Park. But team officials are hopeful that a new resident -- a hawk named...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Matt Cain reiterated that the April 6 season opener would be a cutoff for negotiating a long-term extension. Although both sides have characterized it as a soft...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Hitting As defending World Series champs, the Giants finished 29th out of 30 major-league teams with 570 runs scored in 2011 and dead last in average with runners in...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
(In predicted order of finish) 1. Giants 2011: 86-76 (second) Manager: Bruce Bochy, sixth season (409-401) What's new: The 2010 World Series champs made few personnel...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
(In predicted order of finish) 1. Reds 2011: 79-83 (third) Manager: Dusty Baker, fifth season (322-326) What's new: Who will Giants-hater Mat Latos, acquired from the...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
(03-29) 21:14 PDT SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Two of the three hits Matt Cain allowed left the park Thursday night. In the end, it didn't matter. Cain allowed two runs in seven...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
, Ariz. - The Giants have decided to carry 12 pitchers into the regular season, four starters plus an eight-man bullpen, because they do not want to overuse their staff...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
We play the "Roster Game" all the time, and we've all played under a certain set of rules. Bruce Bochy changed the rules today. The assumption most of the spring was...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
Two of the three hits Matt Cain allowed left the park Thursdaynight. In the end, it didn't matter.
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From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Two of the three hits Matt Cain allowed left the park Thursday night. In the end, it didn't matter. Cain allowed two runs in seven innings and the San Francisco Giants...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Gary Brown usually was the smallest kid on the baseball field, but he found a way to outperform everyone else despite his physical limitations. "Going into my...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Center fielder Angel Pagan considered his speed a gift from God that he did not want to squander. Left fielder Melky Cabrera believes he got faster from his...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he plans to begin the season with a 12-man pitching staff -- a somewhat surprising announcement, since the club will operate with just a...
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San Francisco Giants notebook: CEO Larry Baer says team isn't lowballing Matt Cain in contract talksFrom the Web › The Mercury News
CEO says Giants aren't lowballing the pitcher in talks
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From the Web › The Mercury News
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Giants failed to score a run in two games against Colorado Rockies left-hander Jamie Moyer twice this spring, and the consensus in the clubhouse...
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From the Web › HardballTalk
The last time we heard about the Giants contract talks with Matt Cain, we heard they were going nowhere. Funny how your arch rivals being sold for $2 billion to a bunch...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
The former Willie McCovey Award winner will make Toronto's roster as a utility man, less than a month shy of his 45th birthday.
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Matt Cain doesn't want to negotiate an extension during the season, which gives the Giants exactly eight days to lock Cain down. CEO Larry Baer talked about the contract...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
The Giants just held an online event where Larry Baer talked about the team's future and took some questions from fans. Before the chat started, it seemed like a bad...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
The Giants are committed to keeping All-Star right-hander MattCain in their talented rotation beyond 2012, and CEO and presidentLarry Baer says serious conversations are...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Santiago Casilla might be the most under-publicized member of the Giants bullpen. Looking at his numbers this spring, he's taking umbrage.
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From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
The Giants are committed to keeping All-Star right-hander Matt Cain in their talented rotation beyond 2012, and CEO and president Larry Baer says serious conversations...
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From the Web › HardballTalk
Aaron Rowand signed a minor league deal with the Marlins back in December, but it never got beyond that, as the Marlins released him today. Don't cry for Rowand, though:...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
A lot of Giants are off today, but not these guys: Blanco CF Theriot SS Sandoval 3B Pill 1B Huff DH Christian RF Belt LF Burriss 2B Whiteside C Cain SP - Check out the...
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From the Web › HardballTalk
Between now and Opening Day, HardballTalk will take a look at each of baseball's 30 teams, asking the key questions, the not-so-key questions, and generally breaking...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Giants are adding some multimedia technology to the team's popular behind-the-scenes tours of AT&T Park this season. The team has purchased 60 tablet...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
(03-28) 17:19 PDT Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Brandon Crawford and Nate Schierholtz homered to help the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 on Wednesday...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
, Ariz. - As Matt Cain lounged at home Tuesday evening, his potential net worth rose. Industry insiders surmise that the cost of signing free agents will rise now that...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Since the late '90s, the Giants always seemed to set their payroll just high enough to give them hope to contend into September. From there, they either went on a...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Just because the new ownership just spent over 2 billion to purchase the Dodgers doesn't mean they won't continue to spend on players, which could force the Giants to...
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Pablo Sandoval's fans wear panda hats. Brandon Belt's supporters don baby giraffe caps. But the Giants Dugout Store may need to start production on sharks hats if Gregor...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
As the 2010 championship run was ending, Brian Wilson put the final touches on his most dominating season. Forty-eight saves, a 1.179 WHIP and a 1.81 ERA. Postseason? No...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
A tearful San Francisco Giants payroll manager who admitted embezzling $2.2 million from the baseball team was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Monday after a...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
That the Dodgers have new ownership -- and new deep pockets -- should make Giants fans uneasy. Matt Cain is among the pitchers L.A. could target.
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Angel Pagan recently endured an 0-for-24 stretch at the plate, but with a small swing adjustment and doubles in back-to-back games, the Giants have reason to think...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Brandon Crawford and Nate Schierholtz homered to lead San Francisco to a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday.
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From the Web › The Mercury News
On Twitter, I've occasionally made note of Brandon Crawford's spring progress, and the responses are always the same. There's a group out there, all ladies, that swoons...
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Yusmeiro Petit was a 26-year-old right hander without a job at this time last year. But after working on strengthening his shoulder in Mexico, Petit got an invite to...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Angel Pagan didn't notice that he was in a 0-for-24 slump, but he knew something was wrong with his swing over the last week.
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From the Web › The Mercury News
It seems like it'd be pretty hard not to realize that you're hitless in your last 24 at-bats, but Angel Pagan genuinely didn't know that he was 0 for 24 until he hit a...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
Magic Johnson might be the face of the new Dodgers, but it's the $125 billion of worth that controlling owner Mark Walter has that could lead Los Angeles to spend big in...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
Brandon Crawford and Nate Schierholtz homered to help the SanFrancisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 on Wednesday.
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A pair of big swings by Brandon Crawford and Nate Schierholtz put the San Francisco Giants in a better mood on Wednesday. Crawford and Schierholtz homered to lead San...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Now that the agenda items above them have been cleared, and now Bud Selig is going to have to make the phone call he's been delaying all this time -- to the A's and...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Giants are adding some multimedia technology to the team's popular behind-the-scenes tours of AT&T Park this season. The team has purchased 60 tablet...
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From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
Long term, the Giants are now pitted against a Yankees-like financial powerhouse. Short term, it means L.A. is a part of the Matt Cain Sweepstakes.
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From the Web › The Mercury News
Gary Brown will be back. But his time in camp this spring was briefer than expected, mostly because he found himself losing time to Gregor Blanco, who now is fighting...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Giants roster # Pitchers B-T Ht Wt Born 41 Jeremy Affeldt L-L 6-4 230 Jun 6, 1979 40 Madison Bumgarner R-L 6-5 235 Aug 1, 1989 18 Matt Cain R-R 6-3 230 Oct 1, 1984 46...
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From the Web › The Mercury News
Giants play those Two Billion Dollar Men today. Here's the lineup: Pagan CF Theriot 3B Cabrera LF Posey 1B Schierholtz RF Fontenot 2B Crawford SS Stewart C Petit RHP -...
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From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
Buster Posey planned to spend his 25th birthday quietly with family Tuesday night. "Boring, huh?" he said. No, no Buster. Giants fans will take "boring." Now, if they...
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