LAS VEGAS–After the Giants rode the “core four” to three World Series titles in the first half of the decade, the club had just one holdover from their championship era in its 2018 bullpen.
Hunter Strickland didn’t exactly have the most memorable postseason as a rookie back in 2014. And he didn’t have the most memorable end to his Giants career, either.
Manager Bruce Bochy relied on Sergio Romo, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez and Jeremy Affeldt to lead the Giants bullpen in all three championship runs, but when he arrived in September of 2014, Strickland was supposed to bridge the gap to the next era.