It's opening day! The SFGiants start the 2023 season against the Yankees in New York. Here are five things manager Gabe Kapler and his club must do to exceed expectations this season:
The Giants feel they can make a run. Most on the outside don't feel the same way, but the beauty of baseball is you always get 162 games to try and figure it out.
The Giants have six healthy and experienced starters, with Jakob Junis and Sean Hjelle in the 'pen and Kyle Harrison in Triple-A. Then there's this: It was the Giants, not one of the groups with bigger names, who led the majors in rotation FIP last year, and by a pretty healthy margin. "That's going to be the strength of this team, the starting pitching, the depth and the quality," president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said."These guys have all thrown the ball really well."So, why did a good 2022 rotation watch the playoffs from home? You can point directly at the defense, which was the worst in the majors.
The Giants won't show up on SportsCenter, win Gold Gloves or lead the league in Defensive Runs Saved. But simply by not being awful defensively, they could pick up a lot of wins. The most shocking part of the 107-win season was the way the Giants got there offensively. They hit a franchise-record 241 homers, leading the National League, and did so without a single player reaching 30.
On the infield, a bulked-up Thairo Estrada drove the ball all spring. Wilmer Flores had a career-high 19 last year and J.D. Davis hit 22 the. Villar hit 36 across two levels last season, and the Giants believe he can reach 25-plus if he holds the third base job this season. The reality is this is a very difficult division. FanGraphs projects the Padres and Dodgers to finish second and fourth in the NL in wins, and it wouldn't shock anybody if they end up as the top two. The young Arizona Diamondbacks could crash the postseason party, too, and Kapler talks often of how much of a challenge they present.
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