Just how good is Brandon Belt, really?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty ImagesAny San Francisco Giants fan who has been following the team over any part of the last decade has heard of the “Belt Wars.” Like the legend of King Arthur, the Belt Wars are a mythological battle that is told and retold hundreds of times, facts changing ever so slightly to support whatever agenda is popular at the moment.

For a long time, there wasn’t a winning camp, per se. KNBR callers tended to take the side that Belt was ineffectual; he was injured too often, didn’t put up the RBI or HR numbers befitting a Giants first baseman, and frequently he was criticized for not possessing “intangibles” (which were something like character/heart/mind). Other…