It’s playoffs or bust for the Giants — just as it should be.
Giants third baseman Matt Chapman #26 taps gloves with a teammate during the spring training game between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers at Scottsdale Stadium on March 7, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona. This big-market, big-money team cannot miss the postseason for a third straight year.
In adding a top-of-the-order, everyday center fielder , one of the best all-around third basemen of this generation , a former 48-home-run strongman to bat cleanup , and the reigning National League Cy Young winner , it’s clear the Giants’ front office received the fanbase’s demands. After all, if the Giants that were already on the roster were fine, adding these new guys should make this year’s team pretty good.And better yet, this team makes sense — at least on paper.
The offense should improve, too. The Giants’ 2023 season was torpedoed by anemic hitting in the second half. Before the All-Star break, the Giants had scored the 11th most runs in baseball. After that, they scored the fewest runs per game in the majors. Even the A’s were better. The man tasked with putting together that standard, downright repeatable lineup this season was also an offseason addition.No manager in baseball has consistently gotten more from less than Bob Melvin. He won 53 percent of his games in Oakland and had the same winning percentage the last two years in San Diego, where he was hired to fix the incredible clubhouse mess former manager Jayce Tingler created in only 222 games.
The Giants might be projected to win the third-most games in the National League this upcoming season after the March additions of Snell and Chapman, but it still puts them well behind the Dodgers and Braves — baseball’s two best. Furthermore, there are between eight and 10 other teams in the league that are projected to be within four games of .500 this season.
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