In 2002 when he came to the Giants, his impact on the club was immeasurable. Without Kenny Lofton, the Giants wouldn't have wound up in the post-season and the World Series.

In 2002 when he came to the Giants, his impact on the club was immeasurable. Without Kenny Lofton, the Giants wouldn't have wound up in the postseason and the World Series.

Nobody in that room believed that Chuck Tiffany and Edwin Jackson won't be big-league pitchers. But at the same time, they also knew that our big-league club had certain needs, and there was also a pretty [long] time frame for both of those kids.

I gave him some of my thoughts, he gave me some of his thoughts. He was really amenable to doing whatever we needed him to do. He just wanted to know, as most players do, how to prepare.

We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing strikes. Carter admitted he's never had a stretch like this where he couldn't throw strikes.

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.