1997 History of the San Francisco Giants



after 3 consecutive losing seasons, giants named brian sabean new general manager 1997, replacing bob quinn. (sabean may have been acting gm before announcement, rumored have engineered deal southpaw starter kirk rueter montreal expos.) tenure began great controversy. in first official trade gm, shocked giant fans trading matt williams cleveland newspapers referred bunch of spare parts , negative reaction great enough him explain publicly, didn t point being idiot... m sitting here telling there plan.


sabean proven right: indians acquired williams — slugging second baseman jeff kent, shortstop josé vizcaíno , bullpen setup man julián tavárez, along joe roa – , $1 million in cash enabled them sign center fielder , leadoff hitter darryl hamilton — , subsequent trade anaheim clutch-hitting, slick-fielding first baseman j. t. snow – turned out major contributors, leading giants first nl west division title of decade in 1997. snow, kent , bonds each had on 100 rbi, , pitcher shawn estes 19 wins (against 5 losses) led team. rod beck had usual fine season 37 saves.


1997 saw introduction of interleague play major league baseball, division-winning giants going 10–6 against 4 american league west teams: seattle mariners, texas rangers, anaheim angels , oakland s. wild-card florida marlins ended giants season 3–0 sweep in first round of playoffs (the first 2 being one-run walkoff wins in florida) on way first marlin world championship in fifth year.








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