As the Giants held their postseason organizational meetings last month, pulled obliques were on the agenda, and manager Bruce Bochy said Thursday a plan is in place to reduce the risk of an injury that impacted Hunter Pence, Brandon Crawford and Juan Perez toward the end of 2015.
More stretching?
No, less swinging.
"We discussed it on what we can do to maybe cut back on some of these injuries, particularly the obliques," Bochy said by phone. "Is there something we're doing, or the players are doing?
"I think the one thing we looked at is cutting back on swinging the bats, taking as much batting practice as we do, as often as we do.