5 Decades of San Francisco Giants - The Seventies  Tuesday, July
6, 2010  Part One is here.  Things took a bad turn in the 70s. 
I blame myself.  1970 (Pythag 81-81) C Dietz WARP 5.4/WAR 4.2 1B
McCovey 8.1/6.2 2B Hunt 1.9/.9 SS Lanier -.7/-2.2 3B Gallagher
.2/.6 LF Henderson 4.1/3.8 CF Mays 4.6/4.9 RF Bonds 6.5/5.1 P
Perry 7.9/6.6    Marichal 2.4/1.8    Robertson .8/.8    Pitlock
1/.5 Cl McMahon 4.4/2.9  -I was born at the close of what was,
to that point, our worst ever season.  Gaylord's best ever SFG
year was '70 - and this is going to hold up as not just our best
pitching season of the decade - but this is the top overall
season by any 70s Giant. Another top year belonged to Dietz;
this is the best catching season, not just of the 70s, but he
passed Haller to be the best catching year for SFG from
'58-'79.  Mays rebounded a bit from '69; McCovey held his value
- putting up what would remain the best season for a first
baseman in the decade and our fourth best season overall in the
70s.  Lanier/Gallagher w