Four Weeks into the Season – What can we tell at this point?

The national baseball press has written off the G-Men as too old, too slow and lacking pop.   The question is whether that is true.  At week four the Giants are 11 and 14, tied for last place in the NL West (4 games back of LA) but coming off a 4 and 4 road trip to the east coast.  That 4 games separate first from last place in the division says parity – not desperation.