The Giants don’t look anything like a playoff team. They might just make the playoffs anyway.
Yes, the Giants have underwhelmed this campaign, but much of the ennui this team creates likely stems from the fact that this is the first year of a playoff structure and we’re not yet calibrated to baseball’s new, lower standards for success.
The Giants can easily have that third Wild Card spot and a three-game “Wild Card Series” round berth at the end of the season. A few games above .500 seems to be the playoff standard now, and the Giants are well within the margin of error. It’s also impossible to ignore the trend line with this Giants team. After a nice start to the season, they have progressively gotten worse every month. Going into Thursday’s game with the division-rival Padres, they had lost five-straight series.
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