#3 - San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants (NL) dcinto View Hardball Dynasty Profile

Franchise Power Points: 77

Cumulative Record: 630-504

Playoff Achievements: Wild Card Berth (S3, S6); Division Title (S4, S7); Division Championship Winner (S3, S4, S6 & S7); League Championship Winner (S3, S4 & S6); World Series Champion (3)

Best Season Record: Season 4 (112-50)

Worst Season Record: Season 1 (82-80)

Franchise History- This franchise started out in Arizona as the Dust Devils. They spent their first 5 Seasons there with some considerable success. They started out rather slowly, posting winning records in Seasons 1 & 2 but failing to make the playoffs either year. In Season 3, they went on a tear. The Dust Devils went 92-70 to secure a Wild Card spot in the playoffs and then got hot and made it all the way to the World Series where they defeated the San Juan Warlords 4 games to 3. They also made it to the World Series in Season 4 but were taken down by the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1. In Season 5, the franchise was bought by sweetsalve, renamed the Zodiac and moved to San Francisco. They found similar success, making it to the World Series in Season 6 (lost to Baltimore, 4-2). Season 7 was another successful year for the Zodiac, they won the NL West but were knocked out of the NLCS by the Buffalo Nanucrons, 4 games to 1. In Season 8 the team was sold to dcinto and renamed the Giants (they stayed in San Francisco) dcinto hopes to continue the success of this storied franchise and bring home yet another championship.

Franchise Outlook- This team is unquestionably led by stud pitching ace Tony Cordero. He has pitched incredibly for this franchise, amassing 122 wins and a handful of awards (including ROY and Cy Young) over the last several seasons. Tony is the kind of pitcher you can build a franchise around. The Giants have some other serious talent at the major league level as well, including Bernard Elarton, Vic Bennett and Ray Orosco. There is not a tremendous amount of talent in the minors for this team. Kenny Blair and Rudy Bold are a couple of the bright spots from recent draft years. The lack of minor league talent is not that alarming for this squad though. The major league team is pretty young, so they have a few years before they will really need to start turning the team over and it looks as if there are replacement players in the minors for the older vets who will be retiring soon. All in all, this team is in decent, playoff contender shape. It will take a couple of moves to get them back to the World Series but they are a lot closer than a lot of teams.