Pablo Sandoval is on the San Jose Giants again. It’s still hard to write that sentence without turning into the blinking-stunned-man meme. The last time he was playing in a rehab assignment in San Jose, it was 2013, and the San Francisco Giants only had two lousy championships. Just imagine.
As of Monday morning, Sandoval is 1-for-7 with a walk, which isn’t very exciting. In 81 plate appearances for Triple-A Pawtucket, he had a .558 OPS, which is really unexciting. There’s a chance, a real chance, that Sandoval has lost whatever made him an excellent hitter in the first place.