Our next player on our alphabetical list of San Francisco Giants player reviews is left-handed pitcher Sammy Long.
2021 review
12 games, 40.2 innings, 5.53 ERA, 4.23 FIP, 38 strikeouts, 15 walks, -0.4 rWAR, +0.2 fWAR
Every team has a player or five who look better than their stats indicate. I’m not talking about the way that Brandon Crawford does every year — I’m talking about the players who you pull up on Baseball-Reference and say, “Huh. I don’t remember it unfolding quite like that.”
Long was that player for the Giants in 2021.