If you want to get excited about the Giants' options to improve their rotation at the trade deadline, you have to believe a very specific thing. It's not hard to believe. It might even make a little sense. That thing is this:
Every ballpark that isn't AT&T Park is death on pitchers. Every pitcher would be rejuvenated in AT&T Park. Mid-rotation starters would look much better here. An ace is just a ballpark away!
This probably isn't true, but ... well, it does allow for a few options. Here's what's left now that we know that Hisashi Iwakuma and Jeff Samardzija are staying put and that Johnny Cueto, Cole Hamels, and David Price have all been spoken for.