How nice would it be for the SF Giants to have a cost-controlled outfielder with a 131 OPS+ right now? They could have.
Before the start of the 2018 season, the Giants traded prospect Bryan Reynolds and Kyle Crick to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Andrew McCutchen.
McCutchen, a former MVP and five-time All-Star, was neither of those things by the time he arrived in San Francisco. It's not that he was bad; he was coming off a 3 win season and continued to be an above-average hitter.
He just wasn't the McCutchen of old.
Reynolds, meanwhile, had an .