2024 stats: 9 G (8 GS), 36.1 IP, 6.44 ERA, 1.679 WHIP, 7.7 K/9, 3.7 BB/9, 11.4 H/9, 1.7 HR/9, 16.4 Whiff%, 32.5 GB%
Right-hander Mason Black made his MLB debut in front of his hometown crowd of sorts. The Scranton-raised Pennslyvanian took the mound at Citizens Bank Park to face off against the Philadelphia Phillies, the team he grew up rooting for as a kid. It was a cool personal moment in a season full of cool, personal moments.
The 2024 San Francisco Giants were all about making memories. Not the ones that alter the topography of a fanbase’s collective consciousness, nor the ones that link us together through a mycorrhizal network of mycelial memory ticklers that feed us and sustain us and bind us together.