Sometime in the next few days, free agent superstar Juan Soto will sign a contract. That contract will, if reports are to be believed, likely exceed $700 million. And then a team not named the San Francisco Giants will get better.
I never expected the Giants to sign Soto. You never expected the Giants to sign Soto. Exactly no people expected the Giants to sign Soto.
But for much of the season, the running joke was that fans could look forward to the Giants finishing second for Soto. And the joke was funny because it was, unfortunately, grounded in reality.