- 1993 San Francisco Giants season
MLB yearly infobox alt
name = San Francisco Giants
season = 1993
misc = Barry Bonds First Season in San Francisco
current league = National League
y1 = 1883
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark =Candlestick Park
y4 = 1960
city =San Francisco, California
y5 = 1958
owners =Peter Magowan
general managers = Bob Quinn
managers =Dusty Baker
television =KTVU
SportsChannel Pacific
(Ted Robinson ,Mike Krukow ,Joe Morgan )
radio =KNBR
(Ted Robinson ,Hank Greenwald ,Barry Tompkins )
SP Radio
(Edgard Martinez,Julio Gonzalez,Rene De La Rosa)|The 1993 Giants season was their 111th in Major League Baseball and their 36th in San Francisco. In the offseason, Barry Bonds left the Pirates to sign a lucrative
free agent contract worth a then-record $43.75 million over 6 years with the Giants, with whom his father spent the first 7 years of his career, and with whom his godfatherWillie Mays played 22 of his 24 Major League seasons. The deal was at that time the largest in baseball history, in terms of both total value and average annual salary.Chass, Murray. " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDD1F38F935A35751C1A964958260 Giants Make Investment: $43 Million in Bonds] ",The New York Times , publishedDecember 6 ,1992 , accessedJanuary 31 ,2008 .] To honor his father, Bonds switched his jersey number to 25 once he signed with the Giants, as it had been Bobby's number in San Francisco. (His number during most of his stay with the Pirates, 24, was retired in honor of Mays anyway). [cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QIv7agRgVjEC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22bobby+bonds%22+%22number+25%22+barry&source=web&ots=ZhHQPVP-52&sig=2uomExw01lPXMPJDWFwd06uE4kY&hl=en|title=Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=Google Book Search |author=Pearlman, Jeff] Bonds hit .336 in 1993, leading the league with 46 home runs and 123 RBI en route to his second consecutive MVP award, [cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1993.shtml#NLmvp|title=1993 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com] and third overall. As good as the Giants were (winning 103 games), theAtlanta Braves won 104 in what some call the last great pennant race (due to the Wild Card being instituted shortly after). [cite web|url=http://espn.go.com/classic/s/2001/0927/1255891.html|work=ESPN Classic|title=What makes a great Pennant Race?|accessdate=2007-09-25|date=2001-10-01 |publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|author=Neyer, Rob]Offseason
*November 17, 1992: Steve Decker was drafted by the Florida Marlins from the San Francisco Giants as the 35th pick in the 1992 expansion draft. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/deckest01.shtml Steve Decker Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
* December 8, 1992: Barry Bonds signed as a Free Agent with the San Francisco Giants. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml Barry Bonds Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]Regular season
During the season, John Burkett and Bill Swift would be the last pitchers to win at least 20 games in one season for the Giants in the 20th Century. [Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.98, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0]
Opening Day Starters
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Barry Bonds
*John Burkett
*Will Clark
*Royce Clayton
*Kirt Manwaring
*Dave Martinez
*Willie McGee
*Robby Thompson
*Matt Williams [ [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1993&t=SFN 1993 San Francisco Giants Roster by Baseball Almanac ] ]eason standings
Notable Transactions
*August 3, 1993: Scott Sanderson was selected off waivers by the San Francisco Giants from the California Angels. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sandesc01.shtml Scott Sanderson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*August 28, 1993: Jim DeShaies was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the San Francisco Giants for a player to be named later, Aaron Fultz, and Andres Duncan (minors). The San Francisco Giants sent Greg Brummett (September 1, 1993) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/deshaji01.shtml Jim Deshaies Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]Draft Picks
*June 3, 1993: Steve Soderstrom was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1993 amateur draft. Player signed July 28, 1993. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/soderst01.shtml]
*June 3, 1993: Bill Mueller was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 15th round of the 1993 amateur draft. Player signed June 4, 1993. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/muellbi02.shtml]Roster
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