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Felipe Alou was always the Giants' post-Dusty Baker stopgap, an admirable man and dignified shop steward for the Barry Bonds status quo.

He was hired in 2003 to maintain the paranoid clubhouse culture, not change it. He was brought in to soothe and strategize, not remake and revolutionize.

So, given the prevailing age and chill moods of the roster, Alou has done well for more than three good to middling seasons.

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