Ex-Giants in the playoffs

After all the excitement of the two Game 163s yesterday, the playoffs start today. Like I did last year, I decided to go over what teams have ex-Giants on their roster. One note: playoff rosters are not set and not all of these guys will end up eligible to play in October. But if their team wins, they all get rings! And that’s what baseball is all about: jewelry.

Can I interest you in Brandon Crawford’s brother-in-law Gerrit Cole being on the Astros? I hope so, because that’s all I got here.

As sad as it is that Santiago Casilla was cut earlier this year and won’t get a chance to be a playoff hero, the A’s do still have both Yusmeiro Petit and Cory Gearrin on the roster. Petit’s had a very…