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Article: Giants' shuffle starts at the top: FELIPE ALOU IS OUT; BONDS' STATURE DROPS.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2006
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Byline: Andrew Baggarly
Oct. 3--The Giants spent most of the past decade filling cracks around Barry Bonds. After two consecutive losing seasons, they acknowledged Monday that it's time to condemn the house. The team made it official that Felipe Alou would not return as manager in 2007, then owner Peter Magowan declared that Bonds, a free agent, is no longer its centerpiece.
"We need to go in a new direction," Magowan said. "The strategy has been one of having a great player -- maybe the greatest player in the game -- at the centerpiece and filling in with veteran players. For a long time that worked well. It caught up with us in the last couple ...