It will be a triumphant Opening Day at Oracle Park when the San Francisco Giants host the Seattle Mariners. The team is off to their best start (5-1) since 2014 thanks to new leadership by franchise legend Buster Posey. They’ve also got some new faces sprinkled in around some young players who figure to excite. The Mariners pale in comparison.
Jerry Dipoto, their President of Baseball Operations, is (basically) the darling of the previous generation of MLB front office exec. That’s the data-driven efficiency model that compressed players into widgets and our fandom into a given that could be abused however the front office saw fit.