Is Edgar Renteria Due for a Second Half Breakout?

If you judge him on the first half of the season, then there is no doubt that Edgar Renteria has been a disappointment as the San Francisco Giants' everyday shortstop.

With a .254 batting average, .308 OBP, and only two home runs and 38 RBI through 81 games, Renteria hasn't lived up to the two-year, $18.5 million contract he signed back in December.

Yet all is not lost with the Colombian-born, former All-Star shortstop.

Ignore for a second the fact that the Giants are mired in an "out of the gate" slump that has resulted in them going 1-4 in the first five games of the second half of the season.

Ignore also for a moment that Renteria has batted three-for-19 in the firs...

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