It’s hard to script a month as bad as August for the San Francisco Giants.
They entered with slim postseason chances, and exited with nonexistent ones. They somehow didn’t realize this until the final day of the month, and managed only to trade Andrew McCutchen, leaving other valuable rentals in their own parking lot.
Buster Posey and Steven Duggar had season-ending surgeries. The players who surprised earlier in the year suffered inevitable regressions that will (or rather, should) make the team a bit more hesitant about them going forward.