Previewing San Francisco Giants Rotation Options for 2019

The San Francisco Giants 2018 rotation was supposed to be decent. A projected rotation would’ve been Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, Chris Stratton, and either Ty Blach or Derek Holland.

Then Bumgarner and Samardzija got hurt before the season and Cueto got injured about a month later. Bumgarner looked effective enough after his return, while Samardzija struggled through only 10 starts for the San Francisco Giants.

Meanwhile, Cueto had to go under the knife and will miss all of 2019 while he recovers from Tommy John.

Injuries aren’t fun.

However, these injuries forced the rotation to include rookies Dereck Rodriguez and Andrew Suarez as well, who now look like key future…