San Francisco Giants president and chief operating officer Larry Baer said on Saturday that ownership hopes to do what it can to keep the team intact for 2011, according to The San Francisco Chronicle’s Henry Schulman.

“We’re always going to want to be somewhat creative,” Baer said. “We’re not going to have a doubling effect, or a double-digit massive increase. That’s not who we are. The good news is, who we are is not going down in payroll either.”

Schulman says there should be no repeat of 2002 where the team had to sell off some players such as Russ Ortiz for budgetary reasons.

“I think that the way this team has galvanized, the fan base, the clubhouse dynamics and everything, I think we’re going to work hard to preserve that, whatever that means,” Baer said. “There are so many positive stories this year. We want to keep those positive stories alive when everybody reports to Scottsdale for spring training.”

The Giants payroll was just under $100mm this season and should cross that number next year. They will have about $20 million coming off the books in 2011, but some of that will be given as raises or to those that are arbitration-eligible.