The Giants might still make a couple more moves before spring training begins next month, but for now all we and the projection systems have to go by is the thoroughly mediocre roster cobbled together through until today.
It’s not inspiring, exciting, or even vaguely promising. It simply exists, but Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projection for 2020 is here to tell us, “Hey, look, it could be worse, okay?” For all the gnashing of teeth over the certainty of another losing season and the hard to ignore feeling that the team is still years from being competitive, they’re still not going to be the Tigers.