Player review: Luis Matos

Generations from now young Giants fans — eager to understand what they could only piece together from fragments found on ancient Twitter feeds — will approach us wizened faithful who were alive for the 2024 season and ask: What was it like when the Matos Meteor hit?

Hopefully, I’ll have answers decades from now, because six months on, I’m still not quite sure. In all the strangeness of this past season, the rapid rise and rapid decline of Luis Matos sticks as a real fever dream of a week.

A National League Player of the Week, to be exact — an honor bestowed on a Giants player not since Brandon Belt in 2018. It was a comet from the cosmos, a spectacle of offense, of defensive flair that all…