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After shoulder surgery, Cole Hamels is still hoping to pitch in I will happily bet million McCovey Bucks on Kapler being announced as the winner, if anyone would like to take me up on that offer.

Louis Cardinals this year but was fired after the season. Kapler will win, and deservedly so, but my goodness it would be funny if Shildt won instead.

The Giants finished with wins, the most in franchise history and the highest mark in the Majors this year. More importantly, it was a mark that was about 30 games above what the projections — statistical and otherwise — expected from San Francisco.

Klentak, who lost his job last October, wanted Kapler to stay. Kapler came to Philadelphia with energy and new ideas. Some worked. There were a lot of opportunities to coach better. And, you know, we didn't win enough baseball games.

And I think that, ultimately, is the bottom line here. Perhaps one Kapler decision more than any other still resonates inside the organization. It is a big "what if? Kapler did not bring back popular pitching coach Rick Kranitz following the season. He replaced him with Young. Key pitchers regressed. Some ignored or rebelled against him.