The Robbie Ray-Blake Snell comparison chart

About 48 months ago, the San Francisco Giants grabbed Tyler Anderson off the waiver wire as they headed into an offseason wherein their ace Madison Bumgarner was set to walk away from the only franchise he’d ever known to that point. In a transaction analysis post, I made this comparison chart between the two lefties:

My conclusion then was a bit cowardly:

I’m not saying Tyler Anderson is the next Madison Bumgarner, nor am I suggesting the Giants think they’ve found a suitable replacement, just that there’s some overlap between the two, and maybe that did somehow factor into the Giants’ thinking.