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 2021 ‘BEST TEAM’ IN BASEBALL, Part 1 – From Midgets to GIANTS 

    The San Francisco Giants began the 2021 headed for another sure sub-.500 year (their fifth in a row) with  25 unremarkable players looking more like midgets than Giants, other than perhaps Buster Posey despite coming off a bad year. Despite only one unremarkable mid-season trade ,   the Giants ended the season with virtually 25 REMARKABLE players with most having, inexplicably,  ‘career years ‘ propelling the Giants to their record 107 wins, most in baseball. Many have asked HOW COULD THIS BE , with a team so bad virtually nobody gave the Giants a chance to do much better than .500?  Let’s take a closer look at this 2021 team that also hit the most homers after hitting among the fewest in 2020.

WELCOME TO SAN FRANCISCO, WHERE YOU CAN LEGALLY SHOPLIFT UP TO $980 AND NOT WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING HAPPENING TO YOU

Nobody gave the Giants a chance. Everyone thought they would fold – and for good reason.

But, they haven’t. In fact, the Giants have their best record, 107 wins, not only since coming to San Francisco but all time! Not just since 1904 but these Giants have the best record in the Giants 150 history! And without a big name player, other than , perhaps Buster Posey, who had a comeback season. Wow! Great? Resilient? Or something else?

You wonder ‘How can a team devoid of any here-to-fore real star power but with a lot of journeyman players past their primes-if they even had a ‘prime’ – accomplish such a feat until now, late in their careers. (Sounds a little reminiscent of names like Huff, Burrell, Renteria, Ross, Scutaro, etc).   It seems not so strangely similar to  how the 2010-2014 Giants teams won there first (three) world series in 56 years.  

We know for fact the 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series winning Giants had seven known PED users on the team (five of whom who had been indicted during or prior to coming to the Giants) – and there were likely more who never got caught. 

Remember, this was the team and era that spawned Barry Bonds, he of the ‘cream and the clear’ – or what he wrote off as ‘flaxseed oil.’ It was only three years since Bonds was effectively forced into ‘early’ retirement – though he was a still productive 42 year old player in his final year- following the Mitchell Report on steroid / PED use. Despite appearing nearly twice the physical size before coming to the Giants from Pittsburg where he was a very good player, his unworldly exploits since coming to the Giants at age 30 in 1997 included breaking single season (73) and career homerun records. Yet, Bonds was never convicted of anything in liberal San Francisco other than a single perjury charge for denying the use of steroids which was later overturned in similarly liberal 9th District San Francisco courts.

The Giants have had more than 20 KNOWN PED users – ,more than any other team-  on their teams since the early 2000s and Bonds. This year you only had one KNOWN PED player, Logan Webb, having been indicted in his rookie year of 2019, but he’s been perhaps the ‘best’ player for the Giants for the latter half of this season. You ask how do players like Webb and Bonds come back to perform so well AFTER PEDs. Well, who says ‘after’? Especially in San Francisco, where the science of PEDs was well honed in the labs of Victor Conte and BALCO, you have to be ‘dumb or dumber’ to get caught using PEDs – especially a second time- according to Conte. And, if one DOES get caught in San Francisco, it doesn’t seem to matter like it might in other parts of the country. Bonds has maintained hero status in San Francisco, after being shunned by  baseball fans elsewhere. People have become so blase’ in San Francisco, there was hardly a mention by media or fan alike when a new Giant indicted PED player, pitcher Gregory Santos, was announced by MLB last month. And, this, supposedly years after the steroid era was over, according to many including MLB.

San Francisco stores like Target and remaining Walgreens are closing

early, at 6 pm, so they’ll still have some merchandise on 

their shelves the next day, 19 Walgreens have already ceased operation.

Some now call San Francisco the city where ‘anything goes,.’ especially

clothes right off the shelves, like this guy on bike shows you.

San Francisco is where stores like Target and Walgreens now close early, at 6 pm, so they’ll still have some non-pilfered items on the shelves the next day. It’s the same city where the mayor, London Breed, can go out dancing without a mask after mandating everyone else wear one. Or, the leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, can get her hair done without donning a mask, even before or after the cameras caught her at a supposedly ‘locked down’ salon. This was the same Pelosi who invited everyone to come to San Francisco to shop in Chinatown during the early days of the Pandemic not long after the Wuhan lab of China was caught leaking what they said was a ‘bat virus’ and allowed their own citizens to travel abroad to places like San Francisco but not within China. Not to say that ‘Do what I say, not as I Do’ hasn’t spread to other cities – it’s just that San Francisco seems to be in the forefront, and do it best, and do it more often. 

Getting back to this year’ edition of ‘Are They Really GIANTS?’ , you have player after player having ‘career’ years and younger players outperforming their minor league records (as below examples). PEDs may have seemed to slowed a bit while baseball took on other forms of cheating – and we say baseball because baseball never really clamped down on cheating while looking for anything to boost the flagging game, where attendance has been down for years. We never saw more than a handful , or two, of players actually caught and suspended by MLB during any year. Only have we seen the real, sizable numbers of players who HAVE BEEN using when caught by serendipity  during the Biogenesis scandal in Florida and during the MItchell Report. Biogenesis Lab scandal in Florida netted a bunch that baseball never could catch with its weak drug testing plan that now, reportedly, only tests a player one-two times per year. (See articles below)  In recent years we’ve even seen other forms of cheating such as using technology in sign stealing that probably gave Houston Astros a World Series win possibly Boston. . More recently there’s been the ‘foreign substance’ scandal with pitchers dominating the sport ; baseball thought they would solve the problem by requiring pitchers show their gloves between innings ; we’ve seen all of one or two players suspended with substance in their gloves. Not to say that cheating didn’t exist here, too; it’s just that MLB couldn’t find it in players’ gloves. 

“San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities – Michael Shellenberger – Google Books”

 

 2021 ‘BEST TEAM’ IN BASEBALL, Part 1 – From Midgets to GIANTS 

    The San Francisco Giants began the 2021 headed for another sure sub-.500 year (their fifth in a row) with  25 unremarkable players looking more like midgets than Giants, other than perhaps Buster Posey despite coming off a bad year. Despite only one unremarkable mid-season trade ,   the Giants ended the season with virtually 25 REMARKABLE players with most having, inexplicably,  ‘career years ‘ propelling the Giants to their record 107 wins, most in baseball. Many have asked HOW COULD THIS BE , with a team so bad virtually nobody gave the Giants a chance to do much better than .500?  Let’s take a closer look at this 2021 team that also hit the most homers after hitting among the fewest in 2020.

WELCOME TO SAN FRANCISCO, WHERE YOU CAN LEGALLY SHOPLIFT UP TO $980 AND NOT WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING HAPPENING TO YOU

Nobody gave the Giants a chance. Everyone thought they would fold – and for good reason.

But, they haven’t. In fact, the Giants have their best record, 107 wins, not only since coming to San Francisco but all time! Not just since 1904 but these Giants have the best record in the Giants 150 history! And without a big name player, other than , perhaps Buster Posey, who had a comeback season. Wow! Great? Resilient? Or something else?

You wonder ‘How can a team devoid of any here-to-fore real star power but with a lot of journeyman players past their primes-if they even had a ‘prime’ – accomplish such a feat until now, late in their careers. (Sounds a little reminiscent of names like Huff, Burrell, Renteria, Ross, Scutaro, etc).   It seems not so strangely similar to  how the 2010-2014 Giants teams won there first (three) world series in 56 years.  

We know for fact the 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series winning Giants had seven known PED users on the team (five of whom who had been indicted during or prior to coming to the Giants) – and there were likely more who never got caught. 

Remember, this was the team and era that spawned Barry Bonds, he of the ‘cream and the clear’ – or what he wrote off as ‘flaxseed oil.’ It was only three years since Bonds was effectively forced into ‘early’ retirement – though he was a still productive 42 year old player in his final year- following the Mitchell Report on steroid / PED use. Despite appearing nearly twice the physical size before coming to the Giants from Pittsburg where he was a very good player, his unworldly exploits since coming to the Giants at age 30 in 1997 included breaking single season (73) and career homerun records. Yet, Bonds was never convicted of anything in liberal San Francisco other than a single perjury charge for denying the use of steroids which was later overturned in similarly liberal 9th District San Francisco courts.

The Giants have had more than 20 KNOWN PED users – ,more than any other team-  on their teams since the early 2000s and Bonds. This year you only had one KNOWN PED player, Logan Webb, having been indicted in his rookie year of 2019, but he’s been perhaps the ‘best’ player for the Giants for the latter half of this season. You ask how do players like Webb and Bonds come back to perform so well AFTER PEDs. Well, who says ‘after’? Especially in San Francisco, where the science of PEDs was well honed in the labs of Victor Conte and BALCO, you have to be ‘dumb or dumber’ to get caught using PEDs – especially a second time- according to Conte. And, if one DOES get caught in San Francisco, it doesn’t seem to matter like it might in other parts of the country. Bonds has maintained hero status in San Francisco, after being shunned by  baseball fans elsewhere. People have become so blase’ in San Francisco, there was hardly a mention by media or fan alike when a new Giant indicted PED player, pitcher Gregory Santos, was announced by MLB last month. And, this, supposedly years after the steroid era was over, according to many including MLB.

San Francisco stores like Target and remaining Walgreens are closing

early, at 6 pm, so they’ll still have some merchandise on 

their shelves the next day, 19 Walgreens have already ceased operation.

Some now call San Francisco the city where ‘anything goes,.’ especially

clothes right off the shelves, like this guy on bike shows you.

San Francisco is where stores like Target and Walgreens now close early, at 6 pm, so they’ll still have some non-pilfered items on the shelves the next day. It’s the same city where the mayor, London Breed, can go out dancing without a mask after mandating everyone else wear one. Or, the leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, can get her hair done without donning a mask, even before or after the cameras caught her at a supposedly ‘locked down’ salon. This was the same Pelosi who invited everyone to come to San Francisco to shop in Chinatown during the early days of the Pandemic not long after the Wuhan lab of China was caught leaking what they said was a ‘bat virus’ and allowed their own citizens to travel abroad to places like San Francisco but not within China. Not to say that ‘Do what I say, not as I Do’ hasn’t spread to other cities – it’s just that San Francisco seems to be in the forefront, and do it best, and do it more often. 

Getting back to this year’ edition of ‘Are They Really GIANTS?’ , you have player after player having ‘career’ years and younger players outperforming their minor league records (as below examples). PEDs may have seemed to slowed a bit while baseball took on other forms of cheating – and we say baseball because baseball never really clamped down on cheating while looking for anything to boost the flagging game, where attendance has been down for years. We never saw more than a handful , or two, of players actually caught and suspended by MLB during any year. Only have we seen the real, sizable numbers of players who HAVE BEEN using when caught by serendipity  during the Biogenesis scandal in Florida and during the MItchell Report. Biogenesis Lab scandal in Florida netted a bunch that baseball never could catch with its weak drug testing plan that now, reportedly, only tests a player one-two times per year. (See articles below)  In recent years we’ve even seen other forms of cheating such as using technology in sign stealing that probably gave Houston Astros a World Series win possibly Boston. . More recently there’s been the ‘foreign substance’ scandal with pitchers dominating the sport ; baseball thought they would solve the problem by requiring pitchers show their gloves between innings ; we’ve seen all of one or two players suspended with substance in their gloves. Not to say that cheating didn’t exist here, too; it’s just that MLB couldn’t find it in players’ gloves. 

 

Players have always been and remain ahead of baseball and there may be even more cheating than ever, today, in what has become a very permissive society.  Yet, it seems like the Commissioner’s office, like other top offices, will turn its head, perhaps distracting us with new changes to the game, for better or for worse. (Many old school fans will say ‘for the worse,’  such as the automatic runner at 2nd base in extra innings in an effort to speed up games. Funny, games today are still as long as ever. . Between the various newer methods of cheating along with the old tried and true ones   there may be as much or more than the ‘upwards of 50%’ of players Victor Conte told us were using PEDs. Yet few and fewer of them are being caught and dealt with , it would appear. Rarely, other than the Mitchell Report, have we seen any BIG NAME players apprehended. It’s always the ‘no names’ and even if someone like a Alex Rodriquez or Melky Cabrera is caught they now seem to be welcomed back – while Pete Rose never had the chance in his day- like teflon and bounce right back and continue their careers, many performing as well or even better  – no doubt on something bigger and better , and more disguised , than before.

Meanwhile, many have become used to new baseball with all its enhancements and changes. Younger fans have known nothing else. And, it seems to be the same teams, usually in more liberal cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, Seattle and even Houston. Of the 15 players who have been suspended for PEDs since 2019, 11 of the 15 have come from those five teams – all with two or more players having been caught. And you know what they say… For every player caught there are problably  many more who aren’t. Without going into specifics, most of those caught were only caught because they used older, more detectable forms of PEDs. (see articles below)

 

WHO ARE THESE 2021 GIANTS, ANYWAY? Let’s Look at Some and Their Unlikely Feats

– Lamont Wade Jr -Who he? From out of nowhere…
He never hit more than 11 homers in a full season (majors or minors,) and had this year18 with the  Giants playing part time with about one in  every 18 at Bats , only 331 at bats   . At this rate he’d be on a pace for more than 40 homers if playing a full season. 

LAMONT WADE JR. – Even, in the minors, Wade Jr. never had more than 11 homers (2015) and that was in a more (424) at bats than his 18 this year in only 331 at bats

 

De ja vu all over again? Is 2021 2010-14 upside down? You tell us if you don’t note a similarity between the 2021 team makeup and those of 2010, 2012 and 2014. Read on for more background of the current team and click above link ‘More Giant Shadows’ for a refresher on those 2010-2014 teams. 

Players have always been and remain ahead of baseball and there may be even more cheating than ever, today, in what has become a very permissive society.  Yet, it seems like the Commissioner’s office, like other top offices, will turn its head, perhaps distracting us with new changes to the game, for better or for worse. (Many old school fans will say ‘for the worse,’  such as the automatic runner at 2nd base in extra innings in an effort to speed up games. Funny, games today are still as long as ever. . Between the various newer methods of cheating along with the old tried and true ones   there may be as much or more than the ‘upwards of 50%’ of players Victor Conte told us were using PEDs. Yet few and fewer of them are being caught and dealt with , it would appear. Rarely, other than the Mitchell Report, have we seen any BIG NAME players apprehended. It’s always the ‘no names’ and even if someone like a Alex Rodriquez or Melky Cabrera is caught they now seem to be welcomed back – while Pete Rose never had the chance in his day- like teflon and bounce right back and continue their careers, many performing as well or even better  – no doubt on something bigger and better , and more disguised , than before.

Meanwhile, many have become used to new baseball with all its enhancements and changes. Younger fans have known nothing else. And, it seems to be the same teams, usually in more liberal cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, Seattle and even Houston. Of the 15 players who have been suspended for PEDs since 2019, 11 of the 15 have come from those five teams – all with two or more players having been caught. And you know what they say… For every player caught there are problably  many more who aren’t. Without going into specifics, most of those caught were only caught because they used older, more detectable forms of PEDs. (see articles below)

 

WHO ARE THESE 2021 GIANTS, ANYWAY? Let’s Look at Some and Their Unlikely Feats

– Lamont Wade Jr -Who he? From out of nowhere…
He never hit more than 11 homers in a full season (majors or minors,) and had this year18 with the  Giants playing part time with about one in  every 18 at Bats , only 331 at bats   . At this rate he’d be on a pace for more than 40 homers if playing a full season. 

LAMONT WADE JR. – Even, in the minors, Wade Jr. never had more than 11 homers (2015) and that was in a more (424) at bats than his 18 this year in only 331 at bats

 

De ja vu all over again? Is 2021 2010-14 upside down? You tell us if you don’t note a similarity between the 2021 team makeup and those of 2010, 2012 and 2014. Read on for more background of the current team and click above link ‘More Giant Shadows’ for a refresher on those 2010-2014 teams. 

SUMMARY

We’re  just reporting the facts, as shown in above statistics. Let the numbers speak for themselves in showing why the San Francisco Giants are still the top team, despite the early season odds against that happening. Though we’ve honed in on the Giants , there are certainly other teams that have a number of players over-performing but with the Giants it’s almost everyone of them with players who, based on historic age-related success, shouldn’t be performing nearly as well as they are. You could call it a ‘fluke’ if it were one player, but it’s many. In fact, it’s hard to find any players who haven’t out-performed the previous full season and/or their career numbers. 

 

If it’s not the shorter fences, alone, could it be that the Giants just have a really good coaching staff now?  Well, that’s possible, even though pitching coach  Andrew Bailey and others are in their first seasons ever coaching at the big league level and usually need some seasoning. But, we feel it’s largely something else.

 

  There would be just too many coincidences and past Giants history to determine otherwise. You’ve seen the numbers. Keep in mind that the Giants are among the top four teams with the most PED-indicted players since 2019 and we know of at least one player, Garrett Brohius, then a 27-year-old Giant farmhand at Salt Lake City some years back who told his story to the media of how  Giants scouting had encouraged him to use  PEDs to help his flagging career. When GM Farhan Zaidi came to the Giants he spoke of rebuilding a team of young, talented players based on analytics. That didn’t seem to work, what with Giants’ last four years of sub-.500 ball. Now the Giants have the OLDEST team in baseball. So, perhaps it was plan B that seemed to bring the Giants success ala 2010-2014 by inexpensively acquiring former PED players, ‘black market’ or ‘renegade’  players other teams didn’t want who were willing to do most anything to jumpstart  flagging careers like the seven KNOWN PED players who were largely responsible for putting the Giants ‘over the top’ in 2010, 2012 and 2014 with their first (3) World Series victories in 56 years. Call it desperation, perhaps. 

 

Call it what you will.  And, we haven’t even covered nearly half the players yet. Look for Part 2  ‘How Do SF Giants Do It-Best Record, Most Homers, Top Pitching without Star Power to follow in coming days, e.g. How did a 30-year-old underhand-tossing pitcher ,. after hanging around the Giants system for eight years, suddenly ramp of his game for his best full season in the majors and lowest ERA in five years?    Put it all together, with some more reference articles, below, and YOU help determine  how a Giants team of  unheralded,  journeymen players / rejects could suddenly lead the league in homers and most victories in baseball.  RESILIENT?  Or, something else.  

 

MLB and PEDs

While MLB may cite the minuscule proportion of failed drug tests as evidence of its drug policy’s success, critics of the testing regime believe the continued use of both conventional and “designer” drugs by players only serves to prove that many players remain able to stay one step ahead of detection, even in the “post-steroid era.”

Tom Verducci quoted a former major leaguer in a column for Sports Illustrated last year as saying, “I think we are back up to large-scale use again,” adding that without the “nuclear option” of a lifetime ban for a first offense, “it still seems to be worth the risk.” >

https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/us/balco-fast-facts/index.html

More References

How Many Baseball Players Are On Peds Today?https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=567020051169192&id=100044294208489

 

https://www.insidehook.com/article/sports/baseball-mlb-ped-steroid-problem

:

Plenty of ways to get away with PEDs that aren’t easily detectable,

like those that Lance Armstrong used and many ballplayers who don’t seem to have a Problem staying ahead of the testing curve (the MLB players union is so strong t he players seem to always be ahead of the owners And are currently challenging one popular drug ,DHCMT, that is said to stay for months or years in ones system but may be more dstectable, AND resulted in at least one recent 80 game suspension.

Feature:
Baseball Players Are Testing Positive for a 50-Year-Old East German Steroid. They Can’t Explain  DHCMT

The players’ association has proposed to MLB that a player’s urine sample should register with at least 100 picograms per milliliter of DHCMT before the test counts as a positive

Tony Clark, head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, shook hands with Chris Colabello before an exhibition game in a 2018 photo, not included here. 

By
Jared Diamond

>>>

https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-players-are-testing-positive-for-a-50-year-old-east-german-steroid-they-cant-explain-why-11597845610

 

SUMMARY

We’re  just reporting the facts, as shown in above statistics. Let the numbers speak for themselves in showing why the San Francisco Giants are still the top team, despite the early season odds against that happening. Though we’ve honed in on the Giants , there are certainly other teams that have a number of players over-performing but with the Giants it’s almost everyone of them with players who, based on historic age-related success, shouldn’t be performing nearly as well as they are. You could call it a ‘fluke’ if it were one player, but it’s many. In fact, it’s hard to find any players who haven’t out-performed the previous full season and/or their career numbers. 

 

If it’s not the shorter fences, alone, could it be that the Giants just have a really good coaching staff now?  Well, that’s possible, even though pitching coach  Andrew Bailey and others are in their first seasons ever coaching at the big league level and usually need some seasoning. But, we feel it’s largely something else.

 

  There would be just too many coincidences and past Giants history to determine otherwise. You’ve seen the numbers. Keep in mind that the Giants are among the top four teams with the most PED-indicted players since 2019 and we know of at least one player, Garrett Brohius, then a 27-year-old Giant farmhand at Salt Lake City some years back who told his story to the media of how  Giants scouting had encouraged him to use  PEDs to help his flagging career. When GM Farhan Zaidi came to the Giants he spoke of rebuilding a team of young, talented players based on analytics. That didn’t seem to work, what with Giants’ last four years of sub-.500 ball. Now the Giants have the OLDEST team in baseball. So, perhaps it was plan B that seemed to bring the Giants success ala 2010-2014 by inexpensively acquiring former PED players, ‘black market’ or ‘renegade’  players other teams didn’t want who were willing to do most anything to jumpstart  flagging careers like the seven KNOWN PED players who were largely responsible for putting the Giants ‘over the top’ in 2010, 2012 and 2014 with their first (3) World Series victories in 56 years. Call it desperation, perhaps. 

 

Call it what you will.  And, we haven’t even covered nearly half the players yet. Look for Part 2  ‘How Do SF Giants Do It-Best Record, Most Homers, Top Pitching without Star Power to follow in coming days, e.g. How did a 30-year-old underhand-tossing pitcher ,. after hanging around the Giants system for eight years, suddenly ramp of his game for his best full season in the majors and lowest ERA in five years?    Put it all together, with some more reference articles, below, and YOU help determine  how a Giants team of  unheralded,  journeymen players / rejects could suddenly lead the league in homers and most victories in baseball.  RESILIENT?  Or, something else.  

Annual San Francisco Giants AI-PE Watch (formerly PED as it now goes beyond just drugs as we found out in Houston recently)

The SF Giants have been the talk of baseball all year
How could a mediocre team, on paper at least, have the best record in baseball,? Critics said they’d be out of the race by now. But it shouldn’t be a mystery to anyone who has followed the Giants over the years going back to Barry Bonds

The Giants were never known as a powerful team . In fact, they usually hit among the fewest number of homeruns-until this year.

So how have they managed this year to lead the majors in homers , without a single bona-fide power hitter-and playing in one of the most difficult parks to hit homers- ( even with fences moved in slightly this year, for this reason.).. You’ve got all these guys playing ‘launch angle’ . They may be hitting homers right now but their batting averages are suffering. It may work for awhile
what with a lighter schedule, until now. Let’s see what happens in September, AI or not….

AI? How do they do it?
Same way they won those 3 unlikely world series in 2010, 12 and 14

You’ve got players who keep getting better with age, ie Brandons Crawford and Belt at age 33 going on 34 . Remember Barry Bonds , who had his best years, including record breaking 73 homers in 2003 in his late 30s? Well little has changed in 20 plus years in the Giants’ laboratories except more advanced chemistry, once known as PEDs , for which the Bonds and Giants really paves the way for an early form of AI , THEN referred to as
PEDS.

BONDS guru said not long ago that up to 50% of players were still using and that players had to be ‘dunb or dumber ‘ to fail the lax baseball testing. We also knew that 10% of all players were on Adderall – and not all for real attention deficites.

We also know that A. Torres Late carreer dash with help from the Adderal bottle he shared with Huff and perhaps others on the team I

Then you have veterans who’ve never done anything willing to do anything for one last shot at the Golden ring
Think Lamont Wade Jr, Leone, Ruf and others who are having career years late in career life, too.

LAMONT WADE JR.-this years poster child for AI

Lamont Wade Jr. has to be this years poster boy for ‘AI’- Never hit more than 11 homers in the minors. With the SF Giants he’s already hit 18 -as many as Buster Posey in fewer at bats-in less than a year playing part-time. In fact he’s hitting one homer in every 18 at bats after never hitting more than 11, including the minors !

AUBREY HUFF WROTE AN ENTIRE BOOK AB, BASEBALL JUNKIE, ABOUT THIS -how he and others artificially enhanced their baseball powers at advanced baseball ages to catapult themselves and the team into the rarified air, ie the
Giants first world series victories in 56 years.
Huff’s modus operandi was Adderal, a attention deficit disorder drug which doubles as a performance enhancer
.
SF has long been the epicenter for artificial
enhancement thou Houston took over the honers briefly :.

You see, for ‘Mr Moneyball, ‘ Giants Farhan Zaidi , its no longer about analytics as he was so famous for, but , just like his predecessor, finding over the hill guys willing to do most anything to salvage their careers.
Unlike other teams interested in bringing in name players thru big trades and free agents and who fans can get behind, Zaid will -throw dozens of players at the Wall until one sticks. And then that/those players are usually gone in a year . Interesting to see last year’ poster boys Yaztrmski and Dickerson already fading this year. Will this year’s ‘finds’ Wade Jr and Ruf even be around next year?

Perhaps this also explains, in part, Giants fans staying away at the gate (Giants averaging about 18,000 fans a game this year, 13th in the league.

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Part 2 to follow