Clay Davenport released his first projected standings for the 2012 season over the weekend and his projections say that the Giants should contend but they are far from the favorites in the NL West.

The plus side is that they are projected to allow the second fewest runs in Major League Baseball at 619. The bad news the 634 projected runs scored still puts them in 11th place of 16 teams.

Here is the NL West projections, check the website for the full projections:

NL West	Won	Lost	Runs	Runs A
ARI	86	76	723	678
COL	85	77	749	715
SFG	83	79	634	616
LAD	82	80	636	631
SDP	73	89	606	678

Also fun to check out are the projections that he did for each player.

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