Evaluating baseball seasons requires some context. More than a few three-finger pinches of your salt of choice (I’m a Diamond Crystal kosher man, myself) are necessary seasoning when doing an autopsy on a team. But if you insist on reducing seasons to the two basic outcomes — success and failure — then there can be no debate as to which label should be slapped on the 2025 San Francisco Giants. If those are our only options — and sports do tend to dabble in absolutes — then the season was, without question or hesitation, an abject failure.

They ousted their President of Baseball Operations, convinced that Farhan Zaidi’s floor-raising churn factory wasn’t working, and replaced him with a franchise legend who carried a bit more of a traditional approach in Buster Posey. They doled out the la

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