When I came to the Giants, the team had been 50 games under .500 in the two years before I arrived, it was an aging roster, we had a big payroll, didn't have a great farm system, and we weren't going to rebuild. That's just not something you do in San Francisco. So the question was, 'How do we compete as quickly as possible?' One of the things I would say at the time was, 'We can't out-Dodger the Dodgers.' They've got this head start on us but maybe we can build a talent base to compete with them.
Look, you've got 29 other organizations - not just the Giants - that have to look at the Dodgers as the standard for what they've been able to do. That's not to say other teams can't compete, can't knock them out of the playoffs - which we've seen quite a few times. But they've built a foundation that has allowed them to consistently be a contender.
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