By Thursday, the SFGiants were trying to avoid getting swept in four straight at home against their arch-rivals. (Spoiler: They failed to avoid it.) Read more ⤵️
The Giants played a series last week at Oracle Park against the Dodgers that felt sort of, you know … important. The Dodgers are not to be caught this season, but that wasn’t the point. The point was that Gabe Kapler’s crew needed every win it could possibly cobble together to stay on the fringes of the playoff picture, and L.A. has been the kind of menace this season that can cause an opponent to lose ground suddenly and violently.
But how else do you explain what you’re seeing? The above-mentioned lineup was out there against the mighty Dodgers because, very literally, the Giants’ entire planned starting infield for 2022 was unavailable. There isn’t a trade, or even a couple of trades, that will change the reality. Belt is 34, La Stella 33, Crawford 35, Longoria 36. That’s a valuable collection of experience and championship mettle, and it is a group prone to more frequent injury and slower recovery. It’s all of that together — it just is — and Zaidi and Kapler went into 2022 hoping they could sort of nurse the roster through whatever happened.
Belt is on an expiring one-year deal; Longoria can be bought out for 2023. La Stella and Crawford each have a guaranteed year remaining, and there’s nobody on Planet Giants that is ever going to suggest nudging Brandon Crawford out of the scene. It’s not something the franchise ever does, and you can easily argue that Crawford has been worth every penny the club will ever pay him.
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