If you’ve spent any time watching the San Francisco Giants play baseball, then you’ve /noticed something missing. This vague tingling sensation at the back of your brain that you can’t quite place until Jorge Soler steps into the batter’s box. Ah, that’s it. The Giants’ biggest on-paper power threat has been a powerless presence so far this season.
Half of you might have already written him off as another one of Farhan’s Follies or some such, and a quarter of you might be more concerned with ripping on that half of fans, while the remaining quarter might firmly be with me in the camp of “It’s still early, he’s coming back from injury; and who cares, nobody actually has to be good for very much of the season as this is a team aiming for the third Wild Card.