Pablo Sandoval will get one final at bat in a Giants uniform before heading off to get Tommy John surgery. The Giants activated him from the IL today, the first day rosters can expand from 25 to a maximum of 40.
There’s a lot of weight behind this activation. This will very likely be Pablo Sandoval’s final time in a Giants uniform, although that might be unnecessarily glib given that the front office has seen fit to raze everything the Giants have been. At the same time, this being Bruce Bochy’s final season probably served to operate as a sort of “year in review”, a chance for Zaidi and company to fully evaluate the organization and make tweaks where they could but avoiding any wholesale changes.