The new normal in San Francisco may be winning games, lots of them, after last season’s sterling 107-win performance.
One hundred and seven wins can do a lot for a ballclub.
For one, it all but guarantees entry to Major League Baseball’s postseason.
For the San Francisco Giants, who startled the baseball world with a franchise-best 2021 season that wrested the National League West from the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers, it also built a foundation of trust and conviction, a nearly blind allegiance to even the most radical ideas passed down from an emboldened front office.
