STAT LINE: 9 GS, Team record in starts: 5-4, 3.23 ERA / 1.113 WHIP
ROLE ON THE 2018 TEAM: Johnny Cueto was the ace the team needed early in the year, after Madison Bumgarner and Jeff Samardzija started the season on the disabled list. And he did so admirably, allowing just three total earned runs in his first five starts. The last of which was the second half of the infamous double header (the winning half) in which the Giants beat the Dodgers 8-3 (after losing to them in the first game in such spectacular fashion that it necessitated a brilliant relief pitching performance from Pablo Sandoval).