Nothing has ever come easy for Brandon Crawford

“McDeep Dive” is our new series that spotlights one Giants player every day for a week. We’ll move backwards and forwards through time, look at on the field stuff, off the field stuff, and see if we can learn something new about them. Here’s part four of our look at Brandon Crawford.

My semi-desperate search for footage of Brandon Crawford at UCLA has been fruitless and, ultimately, a waste of time. But I have found several articles in UCLA’s Daily Bruin newspaper that references him. There’s even one about how he overcame adversity in his freshman year to become a true force on the UCLA baseball squad.

UCLA’s coach wanted the freshman to be playing “like sophomores” by the end of the…