The San Francisco Giants aren’t good, but that’s okay. Baseball is very hard in the 21st century and being a .500 team is the equivalent of being a .900 team in the 1930s. Or whatever.
What the Giants have been trying to do for the past six years is become these Milwaukee Brewers. Or the Tampa Bay Rays. Or the San Diego Padres. Or the Arizona Diamondbacks. And they simply haven’t. They can’t win on a budget. They can’t win being big spenders. They can’t win and so we must toss out winning as a metric of success.