Bruce Jenkins notes how the Giants have gone from giving up draft picks to growing their own talent.

Most teams can only dream of a roster built around players who were drafted or originally signed by the organization, but the Giants have pulled it off. Two or three years down the road, they could conceivably field a team built strictly around homegrown talent and draw notice as a World Series contender.

We’ll see. A team doesn’t need home grown talent at every position. When a young team is ready to win, adding the right veterans can put them over the top. I like what Cleveland did in the mid 1990s, when they brought in Orel Hershiser and Dennis Martinez to complete a good, young team and go to the World Series.