How much should a baseball team value loyalty? The San Francisco Giants, a franchise known for sticking with veterans who have helped them win in the past, will have to answer that question once again in the coming weeks. Maybe sooner.
Matt Cain, who has won 97 games for the franchise and helped them win World Series titles in 2010 and 2012 when he compiled a 2.10 ERA over eight postseason starts, is 0-4 with a 7.84 ERA. The Colorado Rockies roughed up him -- to put it gently -- for 10 hits and eight runs in Thursday's 17-7 rout that included a 13-run fifth inning (the biggest in Rockies history).