2024 stats: 16 GS, 72 IP, 4.75 ERA, 4.65 FIP, 7.1 H/9, 1.4 HR/9, 11.0 K/9, 5.4 BB/9
Hayden Birdsong turned 23 on August 30th.
He’s the spitting image of my college friend Antony when he was 20: those wide-set eyes and Cabbage Patch Kid nose... Youth incarnate. Youth that can throw letter-high cheese averaging 96 MPH. Could Antony do that? No, Antony could not do that — though in his early-20s, Antony did win his B-League intramural basketball championship, as well as pass his undergraduate film photography class.
Could Hayden do that?
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The San Francisco Giants rotation already has four arms in Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison that feel pretty established.