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Giants made the right move in hiring Alou

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

You can't have just anybody manage a team like the San Francisco Giants. Not with Barry Bonds on the premises. Not when you're talking about a team so loaded with veteran players that all the Giants' rookie position players combined got fewer at-bats this season than Tsuyoshi Shinjo. Not when your talking about a team whose key players come from hometowns as diverse as Villa Clara, Cuba and Los Altos Hills, Calif. No, the Giants needed somebody with stature. They needed somebody with instant ...

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