The Giants felt comfortable trading Matt Duffy because Eduardo Nuñez was under contract for 2017. We can debate the wisdom of that decision another day, but it’s clear that the team was counting on him for this season. I’ve read people discussing Conor Gillaspie as a potential platoon-mate, and I know I’ve daydreamed about Jae-gyun Hwang hitting 30 homers as recently as five seconds ago, but Nuñez is clearly the starter.
That’s probably a good thing. Nuñez might be the most underrated Giant.
I want to take a trip back to August, 2016, when baseball was shaving us and pulling our sternums through our ears.