Giants embark on quest for repeat The biggest question the Giants face as they open spring training Tuesday might have little to do with them and more to do with the team downstate. Though all eyes in baseball will focus on Don Mattingly's $230 million team, the Giants need to look away if only because they cannot alter what happens in Los Angeles, except when they meet 19 times in the regular season. The defending World Series champions have plenty of pressing questions as they embark on the long trek toward what they hope is their first repeat division championship. Granted, Buster Posey's season-ending injury in May was the principal cause, but some Giants struggled to play to their 2010 capabilities. Most notable, in the afterglow of the World Series, the Giants gave first baseman Aubrey Huff a two-year, $22 million contract. Can manager Bruce Bochy win again with a mix-and-match bullpen? Despite Sergio Romo's shutdown performance in the postseason, Bochy is not naming Romo his sole closer for 2013 and has said different pitchers will throw the ninth inning. Pence did have some big hits down the stretch, but he hit .219 with an equally anemic .671 OPS in 248 Giants plate appearances, striking out once every 3.65 at-bats.
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