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Major sports site predicts SF Giants will have 'best bullpen in baseball'

It’s hard to know what to expect from the San Francisco Giants this season, but at least one national MLB analyst has a whole hell of a lot of faith in their relief pitching.

The Athletic’s Eno Sarris published his annual bold predictions column on Tuesday, dropping 10 incredibly spicy takes about the season to come. And one of those was that the Giants would have the best bullpen in all of baseball.

In the baseball analytics world, there’s been a growing belief that teams who carry pitchers with all sorts of arm slots are harder to hit against than teams with repetitive release points — a belief that started with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020.