The Giants will move forward with their current five-man rotation, and Cobb has a chance to pitch in the postseason for only the second time in his career.
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Alex Cobb #38 heads to the dugout at the end of the fourth inning of their MLB game against the Seattle Mariners at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. When Robbie Ray debuted last week, it marked the arrival of one of the San Francisco Giants’ two midseason rotation reinforcements. But they will chart forward without his rehab partner, Alex Cobb, who was traded hours before Tuesday’s 3 p.m. deadline.
Without any additional moves, the Giants will navigate the second half with a rotation consisting of Logan Webb, Blake Snell, Ray, Kyle Harrison and Hayden Birdsong, a strong five-man group but lacking contingency in the case of injury. A lot still rides on Snell repeating his historic second-half success, Webb’s past three starts being an aberration rather than a sign of things to come, a 33-year-old coming back from major elbow surgery and two rookies whose workloads will have to be monitored.
The discomfort didn’t hinder him from throwing 131 pitches in a complete game last Aug. 29 while coming one out shy of a no-hitter. But Cobb would throw only 10 more innings the rest of the season in what amounted to his final pitches in a Giants uniform.
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