Giants revert to the mean

At some point during the San Francisco Giants 11-0 demolition of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night, I fired off a tweet asking an innocent enough question: if the Giants re-signed all of their free agents this offseason, made no other moves, and ran it back with the exact same roster, how many games do you think they’d win?

The responses were predictable, ranging from a whole host of people who somehow thought the team would get demonstrably worse, to an even larger host of people thinking they’d finish exactly at .500, to a few optimistic folks who pegged the Giants for 85-90 wins.

But truthfully, it was a rhetorical question. The answers didn’t matter much, and could easily be…