This is a good column by @timkawakami, but with his blessing (I hope) I have to add a point that neither he nor anyone else has really made. Next season isn’t going to matter either because this season doesn’t matter. There is a progression to rebuilds. You get better young ... https://twitter.com/timkawakami/status/1294861379858399233
... young players and patiently develop them, then introduce them to the big club. But you develop them in the minors, and there is no such thing this year. Bart, Ramos, Luciano, Hjelle, Corry, Bishop, Wilson, others....Those are hundreds of plate appearances and innings ....
.... lost. I do believe there is some value to the experience they are getting in Sacramento under the direction of Kyle Haines and a really good staff. But these guys are going to have to get their minor-league time, maybe not as much of it as the organization would have ....
.... liked, but time still. Had Covid not destroyed this season, Bart and Ramos probably would have been here by now, much readier then fans assume Bart is now. Hjelle might be getting his feet wet as a long man. Luciano might have climbed a couple of levels and forced ...
.... management to at least consider a few September ABs and dream of him starting the 2021 season on the team. But all that is going to have to happen next year. It’s going to set the #SFGiants back some. It has to. Maybe not a whole year, but part of the year. So it’s about ...
... 2022, and fans have to be patient and endure what Houston fans did. Zaidi has to get his four years. As for Kapler, he has to get a competitive team to manage before anyone can say of he can manage competitively. Maybe that will be late 2021 if everything on the field ...
... and in the vaccine trials goes as well as can be expected. If you were judging Kapler on 22 games in this kind of a season, you’re not exactly being fair to him. Yes, he did not have the greatest reputation in Philly, but people get better. I might prove the point by ...
.... showing you some of my circa 1990 game stories. So, fans, do what I do when I’m thinking about what would be a good story to write that might interest you on a team like this. Focus on the guys who might be part of that 2022 team. Focus on a good story like Ruf, whom I ...
... would have liked to center on tonight. Play along with Zaidi as he gets to see which of those big arms actually has big enough you-know-whats to stick as relievers on a winning team. No Fanbase should have to endure two losses like the last two nights. But if you ...
.... look at the standings in 2020, it’ll be hard to see the road up ahead through the haze.
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