The state of the San Francisco Giants in 2018 is a far cry from what it was two years ago. While the pain of a playoff elimination in 2016, something Giants fans hadn’t felt since Pudge Rodriguez survived the freight train that was J.T. Snow barreling down on home plate in the 2013 NLDS, there was still a hope and a feeling that the core was going to come back in 2017, they’d get a closer in free agency and all would be fixed. Boy were they wrong.
Two seasons removed from that end of the year feeling, we’re at a major crossroads in the organization’s ethos.