It was funny watching the main analytics writers of MLB struggle with naming the San Francisco Giants the “Team of the 2010s.” They so wanted to give it to the Astros and, indeed, I think most of them did, but I bring it up to point out how these two teams do stand side by side here in 2025.
The former NL West rivals have had a lot of success and at points throughout the past 15 years or so have been considered Baseball’s Peak or Baseball’s Pit. Today, they’re somewhere in the middle and are keenly interested in charting a new future that eschews the strict analytics approach that recently defined them.