The San Francisco Giants are a professional baseball team that employs athletes to hit a small white ball that has red seams on it with a larger wooden bat. Through numbers, we can evaluate just how effective these athletes are.
This is where McCovey Chronicles comes in. As an Internet website devoted to the Giants, we can sift through all of the many stats collected on each and every baseball player (there are at least six stats, maybe more) and find the one that best describes how each player is doing. So, setting an arbitrary minimum of 40 plate appearances and sorting by the fewest to the most, we start with .