The shared credit is so pronounced that IF the Giants hold on and win this series, I would love to see them just award a team MVP. Who do you single out? Sandoval I suppose would be the early favorite, but everyone has chipped in at one time or another. The bullpen as a group has been stellar. The starting staff, individually and as a group has been great.
Such great unity amongst all the diversity, the total ends up being greater than the sum of the parts.
We'll see how it goes, but I can't single anyone out for MVP.
from SFGiants.com:
Giants share credit for offense's emergence | SFGiants.com: News:
"The Giants have relied on each other, to a large extent. As many observers have come to understand, the primary influence among players has been Marco Scutaro, who many strive to emulate. Scutaro swung and missed on exactly 15 pitches in his 61 regular-season games with the Giants. No wonder the team finished with the NL's second-lowest strikeout total.
"I've always believed that your lineup can feed off certain hitters and their style of hitting, and I think Marco helped us when he came over here, just like a Buster Posey, who is patient," manager Bruce Bochy said. "Then we have a mix with [Pablo] Sandoval and Pence. They're a little bit more aggressive. But I think they all help each other in their different styles of hitting."
The Giants' styles may differ, but their objective is the same: Strive to hit pitches on a line drive down. That's the mantra preached by hitting coaches Hensley Meulens and Joe Lefebvre.
Meulens used layman's terms to explain the meaning of "line drive down," which has remained a fundamental hitting concept for decades."
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