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  • The SF Giants are stuck in the depths of an identity crisis

    Who are these San Francisco Giants? A month into the 2024 season and it feels impossible to come up with a true answer to this question. At the end of April, the Giants sit at one game under .500, firmly in the mix for one of the National League wild card spots while not losing complete sight of the Dodgers in their own division. The consternation that seemed to consume the fan base at the beginning of the year, especially around the time of the sweep in LA, has dissipated some. No, the Giants...
  • Giants-Pirates Series Preview - April 2024: Giants take on a heap of former Giants

    The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series. He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with 5 walks against just 8 strikeouts. That’s a triple slash of .304/.429/.739 in a measly 28 PA. Now, it’s not...