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Giants Had to Keep Hunter Pence Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports The
Giants could not afford to lose their best power hitter.
There's been a lot of buzz going around that the San Francisco
Giants overpaid when they extended Hunter Pence via a five-year,
$90 million deal.  Dave Cameron of FanGraphs sums up that
argument by writing:  But, if both sides are willing to
stipulate that the Giants could have spent $90 million on other
baseball players this winter if they hadn’t signed Hunter Pence,
then I think there’s a pretty strong case to be made that they
could have done better going in another direction...Pence’s new
deal won’t stop the Giants from winning, so long as they
surround him with quality players on undervalue deals...That’s
not the easiest thing in the world to do, though, and now that
they’re committed to paying Pence $18 million per year for the
next five years, their margin of