Happy Monday, San Francisco Giants fans.
Many fans have grown tired of the Giants patchwork starting rotation, which for the last few months has featured two true starting pitchers and a bunch of artistic reenactments of someone loving a Sudoku in real time but using pitchers instead of numbers. The Giants opened the year with six players who had been quality starters in the very recent future, plus numerous intriguing options in AAA ... no one anticipated that come late August, Ryan Walker (who didn’t make his MLB debut until mid-May) would have as many starts as Alex Wood and Ross Stripling, or that John Brebbia (who has been injured for the last two-and-a-half months) and Scott Alexander would have more starts than Sean Manaea.