KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nine men represented both the 1996 Yankees and the 2000 Yankees in the World Series.

Nine men played for the Giants in the 2010 World Series and are part of San Francisco’s current World Series roster.

You’ll find some obvious equivalents: Derek Jeter and Buster Posey, the franchise icons. Andy Pettitte and Madison Bumgarner, the frontline southpaws. David Cone excelled in the ’96 Fall Classic and was a bit player in ’00, and Tim Lincecum rides a similar track. Luis Sojo left the Yankees, rejoined them and produced a big hit, and the same goes for Travis Ishikawa and the Giants.

Yet the differences between these two teams’ four-year gaps stand out even more, and they highlight the impressiveness, as well as the quirkiness, of the Giants’ five-year dynastic run.

The Yankees’ four World Series titles in five years resulted most of all from the power sextet of Jeter, Pettitte, Tino Martinez, Paul O’Neill, Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams. Talk about a core! Jeff Nelson, valuable setup man all the way through, is the ninth Yankee.

The Giants, on the other hand, have relied primarily on a Core Two of Bumgarner and Posey. Third baseman Pablo Sandoval was a non-factor in 2010, and the other long-timers are relievers Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez and Sergio Romo.

You give San Francisco general manager Brian Sabean much credit for retooling the roster on a regular basis, although it can’t be ignored that the Giants’ even-numbered-year reign has included empty Octobers in 2011 and 2013; they went 76-86 last year and finished just two games out of the National League West basement, for crying out loud.

Sabean might deserve just as much credit for establishing such an admirable clubhouse and organizational culture along with manager Bruce Bochy and CEO Larry Baer. So that when the team does qualify for the playoffs, it feels at home there, rendering the odd-numbered-year disappointments irrelevant in the hearts of the Giants’ fan base.

“We definitely have the right culture,” Giants bench coach Ron Wotus said Wednesday, before the Giants and Royals played World Series Game 2 at Kauffman Stadium. “Brian brings in quality people for us. We always have the pieces to work with. Boch creates a great culture here, along with the coaching staff. We’ve been together a long time. I think that continuity helps us keep pushing forward and moving in the right direction.”

Bochy, in his news conference Wednesday, mentioned “core players” such as Posey, Sandoval, Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford who make his job easier by helping the new guys; it’s notable that of that group, only Posey has played a significant role since 2010. First-year Giant Michael Morse brought up the team’s rich history and said how nice is it to get counsel from the likes of Willie Mays, J.T. Snow and Barry Bonds.

The Giants have employed Bochy as their manager since 2007, and many of his coaches pre-date him on the staff. Wotus has served since 1998 and pitching coach Dave Righetti joined in 2000, with bullpen coach Mark Gardner joining him in 2003.

What’s most remarkable about the Giants’ intermittent streak is how much the team has transformed not only in personnel, but also in style. San Francisco’s 2010 starting rotation featured three homegrown young studs in Lincecum, Bumgarner and Matt Cain and a lineup replete with well-traveled professionals such as Aubrey Huff, Edgar Renteria and Cody Ross. Now, San Francisco is relying on veteran starting pitchers and first-year Giant Tim Hudson, whereas their lineup features an abundance of homegrown stars.

That’s a tribute to Bochy, who doesn’t need a certain type of roster to thrive, and to Sabean, who adjusted on the fly when his farm system stopped producing on one end and started churning out talent on the other end.

“There is a lot of pressure when you come up in the major leagues,” Bochy said, “and when you have a sense of comfort with your teammates, and they make you feel comfortable, [that] makes that transition of coming up to the big leagues a lot easier.”

Few teams in any sport have executed transition as deftly as have these Giants. Can’t wait to see what their 2016 roster looks like.