The injury woes of the San Francisco Giants have gotten so bad that FanGraphs has written about it. This site usually thinks very little of the Giants because they don’t baseball how their modeling and preferences dictate, so you know it’s a big deal when they write about something not related to who the team’s playing with a head-scratching “why?” It is a thorough article (because Jay Jaffe is great) with a perfectly rational conclusion: “It already feels as though the Giants’ season is slipping away.”
The Giants are hoping that Blake Snell can right his own ship and sail back into their fleet (oh no I’m extending this metaphor too far for my skill level!