That Brian Sabean still has a job after allowing the Giants to crater the way they have over the past few years is fairly inexplicable. Sure, some of his defenders (there are a few, right?) may point to the fact that he had no choice but to delay rebuilding as long as Barry Bonds was on the roster, but that ignores the fact that, even with Bonds, the Giants couldn't break .500 between 2005 and 2007. Even setting aside the fact that the Home Run King was in disgrace, he was certainly in decline, and only the most delusional of general managers would have put off laying the groundwork for the next good Giants team beyond the 87-loss 2005 season during which the world got a pretty good glimpse of what the post-Bonds world would look like.But Sabean did delay rebuilding, and instead took flyers on all manner of quasi-geriatric retreads such as Reggie Sanders, Marquis Grissom, Michael Tucker, Omar Vizquel, Moises Alou, Mike Matheny, Steve Finley, Randy Winn, J.T. Snow, Matt Morris, Armando Benitez, and Tim Worrell. Clearly that strategy didn't work. Clearly, after an all-too-long delay, Sabean would certainly begin to rebuild his team through the draft and the canny acquisition of young players still subject to team control, wouldn't he?
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