It’s been a roller-coaster season for the San Francisco Giants. A horrendous first few months of the year made it seem inevitable that they would be sellers at the trade deadline. Instead, a summer resurgence flipped the script and gave them a realistic chance at wild-card contention.
Now they find themselves in the dog days of September, and recent struggles have pretty squarely knocked them out of playoff contention.
So now, just like in 2017 with the heartfelt goodbyes to Matt Cain and Ryan Vogelsong and 2018 with farewells to Hunter Pence and Gregor Blanco, the Giants find themselves thanking yesterday’s heroes instead of playing meaningful baseball in the final month of the season.