Yoshinobu Yamamoto is not a name that most San Francisco Giants fans were familiar with a year ago. For that matter, outside of the most online segment of the fanbase, I’d gander that Yamamoto is not a name that most Giants fans are familiar with today.
And yet here I sit, a lowly and distracted sportswriter, in a chair that my rear end is becoming increasingly aware of just why it was given away for free, prepared to spend thousands of words telling you why Yamamoto is the most important name surrounding the Giants as we head into a critical free agency period that may determine, among other things, the championship fortunes of the team, and the employment status of Farhan Zaidi.