In eight days, the San Francisco Giants will probably get blown out by Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees. But after that, there’s a raft of possibilities for not just every game but the season at large. Expectations are just modest enough that anything positive will probably get spun as a great success; but even still, there’s stuff beyond my cynical statement worth getting excited about as the season goes on.
That starts with the development of Casey Schmitt, whose 15-for-34 Spring Training has been nothing less than astonishing. I’m talking less about the actual performance and more about it coming from a promising position player prospect.