Nonetheless, this isn’t 2017. As William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead, it’s not even past.” For about the first 10 games of 2018, it seemed that Faulkner’s wisdom was all too true as it pertained to the San Francisco Giants.
It seemed as if the sluggish offense and seeming inability to come through in the clutch that was a staple of the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was going to transfer over to this year as well.
However, it is clear that these aren’t the 2017 Giants. This isn’t too surprising considering the fact that on paper this is a very different team from last year.