How the San Francisco Giants can win their first division title in 6 years

Ok for starters, lets get a clean template out. Now, the San Diego Padres are horrendous, and will not contend. Period. The Rockies are a joke. They were terrible last year and the only change they have really made was trading their best reliever for a number 5 (at best) starter in Marquis. Ok so, they're out of the picture. Now that leaves us with the Giants, Dodgers, and Arizona. Arizona only came close because they acquired Adum Dunn at the trade deadline, so i am going to predict that they won't be too much competition unless Brandom Webb (their only decent starter with the loss of Johnson TO the Giants) is unbeleivable, fantastic, amazing, perfect, lights-out, you name it.  Now, the Dodgers won the division, but have lost Lowe. Now a huge factor is who gets Manny Ramirez. We have to assume that Manny goes to the Giants or the Dodgers.  If the Giants get him, it could be a tricky situation. 1. The contract. If Manny gets his four years or whatever he'll probably start to act like a turd agian. 2. You already have tons of righties and only 2 semi true lefties (one of which would probably have to bounce if Manny is added). How do we fix this disaster? Hmm OH! I got it, let the cry baby Dodgers have the biggest cry baby player ever in Manny, and Sign Adam Dunn. Problem solved. Now, under these circumstances the Giants have the Best Rotation in the NL WEST (that includes the best pitcher in the NL if not MLB=Lincecum) (IF, healthy..IF healthy..yes I said IF Noah Lowry, Matt Cain, Randy Johnson are healthy..IF...), a solid lineup IF, everyone produces. Now, Adam Dunn could play 1B for you (instead of Ishikawa or whoever else was gunna get stuffed into that role) and you would have a true lefty, a true cleanup hitter, and a lot of RBI's if Renteria turns into his old "terrific in the NL-Self" and Emmanuel Burriss plays well (he hit  .298 in 95 or so games last year so we can assume he wont be hitting lower than .280 but hopefully better for the Giants sake) and then you have some great options for a 3 hitter in Fred lewis (prob not 2 lefties in a row) So how about Randy Winn Or Molina? Either is great, ok.

So our starting rotation:

1.Lincecum

2.Matt Cain

3.Randy Johnson

4.Noah Lowry

5.Barry Zito

and Sanchez Probably going to hold down the BP (Closer?) (in my world anyways..)

for the Bullpen..eh i've seen better but i've seen much much worse and they added Affeldt, so they should be a little more solid this year. (Again, according to my plan)

Lineup:

1.Renteria-R(SS)

2.Burriss-S(2B)

3.Winn-S(RF)

4.Dunn-L(1B)

5.Molina-R(C)

6.Lewis-L(LF)

7.Rowand-R(CF)

8.Sandoval-S?(3B)

9.Pitcher

Now just take a look up and down that lineup a few times.. mmhmm, a couple more...mmmm thats it, good...

Now Sandoval is kind of a question mark because he played 40-something games and hit .348.So, over a full season that includes slumps and hot streaks we can assume he ends up around .300 with some decent power numbers. So, when you look at a lineup that just got reworked like this, and Aaron Rowan is your worst starting hitter (coming off of a bad year), things are looking really, really good.

Anyways, this team would also include Dave Roberts as a 4th outfielder, A solid hitting 3rd baseman/backup catcher in Sandoval and a rising star (catcher) in Buster Posey who could join the team mid year.

What team in the NL west with or without Manny Ramirez is going to come out on top of THIS Giants team? Answer=None. (note all I did was have them sign Adam Dunn and assume everyone was going to play well and be healthy)