San Francisco Giants spring

The San Francisco Giants seemed to be flying high at the July 31 trade deadline a year ago. Coming off their World Series run of 2010, they still had some of the best pitching in baseball and the addition of Carlos Beltran looked to have them primed for a repeat performance. For whatever reason, nothing went right the rest of the year. Beltran went to St. Louis in the offseason and San Francisco looks to see if they can rebound and take the NL West back from Arizona. TheSportsNotebook breaks down the Giants based on our four usual pillars of the ability to get on base, hit for power, starting pitching and relief pitching.