Yesterday, Farhan Zaidi suggested that the Giants were interested in trying out the concept of the “opener” going forward. If you aren’t familiar, that is when a relief pitcher starts the game and usually goes about an inning or so, then the traditional starting pitcher comes in.
There are many people for whom that doesn’t sit well with, and not for baseball reasons. I like and respect Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area a lot, but he posted something last night that bothered me:
In times like this, as some of you get mad that the Giants might use a strange concept for like a half-dozen games next season, I would like to remind everyone that they've lost 187 games the past two seasons.