The season's just started, but losing three out of four games in NY was not great. We may be seeing the next iteration of a team led by a handful of younger stars, leavened with roster flexibility and turning other team’s castoffs into valuable players.
• April 21, 2022 1:30 am - Updated April 22, 2022 5:20 pm
Sloppy play in game one on Tuesday night, being dominated by Max Scherzer in game two on Tuesday and Carlos Carrasco on Thursday, and a subpar outing by Logan Webb against Scherzer led to dropping three of four to the Mets. After lackluster, to be charitable, play in his brief time with the Giants in 2020, thus far in 2022 Bart is hitting only .207, but his five walks and two home runs give him a very solid .324 on base percentage and .448 slugging percentage. If the Giants have any chance of repeating their extraordinary 2021 season this year, Bart will have to contribute at close to that level for the whole season.
The Giants saw something in Estrada that the Yankees, a franchise that for several years now has proven unable to keep up with the evolution in how baseball talent is evaluated and developed, did not. That something was that Estrada is a pretty good baseball player who can field several positions, get on base and hit for surprising power.
Player development of both top prospects and others is an essential part of the Zaidi-Kapler approach and these players the test of that.
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