You follow the San Francisco Giants, so you're familiar with bad baseball. You're well aware of it from watching the Giants, both this year and in many other years. But you've also become keenly alert to bad baseball through divisional foes such as the woeful Colorado Rockies, who, in most years, make you feel a little better about the Giants.
Through all of this you've learned something critical to the baseball-watching experience: there are levels to the badness. There are bad teams and there are bad teams, and there's a whole gradient betwixt the badness, plus a little something something past the extreme end of the spectrum.
The Giants have been a bad team if you look at the year as a whole, but they've sneakily only been a bad bordering on mediocre team in recent weeks. Entering tonight's game, the Giants were 25-27 over the last two months. Not the stuff dreams or even playoff teams are made of, but certainly not bad.
Well let me tell you something, folks: that have been a borderline competent team you watched for the last two months, but it's going to be a downright bad team that you watch for the next two months. That's just the nature of the best when you sell at the deadline, as the Giants absolutely, positively, most definitely needed to do and, thankfully, did (and very well, I might).
You don't get rid of your best hitter, your second-best starting pitcher, your fourth-best starting pitch, two of your best relievers, and your everyday outfielder and expect to get anything other than categorically worse, especially when the haul in return only featured two rostered players, one of which is playing fairly poorly in AAA, and the other of which is injured with no timetable for a return.
#best #teams
Through all of this you've learned something critical to the baseball-watching experience: there are levels to the badness. There are bad teams and there are bad teams, and there's a whole gradient betwixt the badness, plus a little something something past the extreme end of the spectrum.
The Giants have been a bad team if you look at the year as a whole, but they've sneakily only been a bad bordering on mediocre team in recent weeks. Entering tonight's game, the Giants were 25-27 over the last two months. Not the stuff dreams or even playoff teams are made of, but certainly not bad.
Well let me tell you something, folks: that have been a borderline competent team you watched for the last two months, but it's going to be a downright bad team that you watch for the next two months. That's just the nature of the best when you sell at the deadline, as the Giants absolutely, positively, most definitely needed to do and, thankfully, did (and very well, I might).
You don't get rid of your best hitter, your second-best starting pitcher, your fourth-best starting pitch, two of your best relievers, and your everyday outfielder and expect to get anything other than categorically worse, especially when the haul in return only featured two rostered players, one of which is playing fairly poorly in AAA, and the other of which is injured with no timetable for a return.
#best #teams
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