Player review: Sean Hjelle

2024 stats: 58 G, 80.2 IP, 3.90 ERA (3.54 xERA), 8.37 K/9, 1.56 BB/9, 1.21 WHIP, 59% GB%

I ended Sean Hjelle’s 2023 player review skeptical.

“If he’s with the San Francisco Giants next season, it’ll be with some eyebrows raised. There won’t be much rope—he’ll have to do something big and do it early if he wants to not only get off the bus but stay off.”

The right-handed long reliever spent most of that year ferrying between Sacramento and San Francisco with long gaps between big league innings. Most of these appearances were spent trying to shake the weight of a few unseemingly outings from his season averages. 4 runs across 2.1 innings in April against LA; 5 runs in an inning against the…