Here’s a fun exercise.
How many designated hitters will the Giants use this year?
In 2020 they used 11 designated hitters.
Even if you remove the pinch-hitters, the Giants started eight different players at designated hitter.
Reminder: there were only 60 games in 2020.
There are reasons (beyond the additional 102 games) to think the Giants will be even more liberal with their employment of designated hitters in 2022. For starters, there are fewer aging, defensively-challenged players on this roster than there were in 2020. There’s no Hunter Pence, no Alex Dickerson, no Pablo Sandoval, no .