Don’t get me wrong, the San Francisco Giants have had some very good second basemen in this past decade. We’ll all have a special place in our hearts for Freddy Sanchez and Marco Scutaro, two guys who played a huge role in two different championship runs.
But you can’t talk about their playoff heroics without talking about what followed. In June of 2011, Freddy Sanchez dislocated his shoulder diving for a ground ball and had to have season-ending surgery.
He began 2012 on the DL and was later shelved due to recurring back problems.