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Paul Carrigan Jr.'s avatar

Good one, Maestro. IMO, Zed REALLY stepped on it with Manea, who was smart to get outa Dodge. Two more words:

Davis (J.D.)

Estrada.

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Doug's avatar

Ugh, I knew I was missing a big one and I couldn't think of who. Sorry, JD Davis! You deserved a paragraph here too. You also deserved several million more dollars this year, so the paragraph maybe isn't that big of a deal.

As for Estrada, his offensive performance warranted a demotion. The fact that the team then called up a different defense-first MI to start over Luciano isn't great, but to me that was a pretty normal baseball move.

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Lyle's avatar

Amen. I'm looking forward to the end of the churn.

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wamckay's avatar

If the treatment of players under Farhan got so bad that it was common knowledge throughout MLB (I mean, was it?), then having a guy like Buster in a leadership role certainly can’t hurt. Regarding what it’s gonna take to make the Giants competitive, I think that’s a topic for another column Doug!

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