We just debuted “McDeep Dive”, our new series that will spotlight one Giants player every day for a week. We’ll move backwards and forwards through time, look at on the field stuff, off the field stuff, and see if we can learn something new about them. Here’s the final part on this week’s subject, Hunter Pence.
2011 was a career-defining year for Hunter Pence. It was his best season (140 wRC+), he made his second All-Star team in a 3-year span, and it was the year he was traded to the Phillies which setup his trade the following season to the Giants.